Advance booking is required for the Adventure Tour the sign outside said call for more details. If that number does not work you can find more contact details on the Dark Cave official website. If you cannot manage to climb the steps and if the Dark Cave sounds too creepy you can instead visit the 3rd main attraction, the Cave Villa which lies at the foot of the limestone hill.
You have to pay an entrance fee RM15 for foreigners, RM7 for Malaysian residents and cross a crooked bridge over a carp pool. Here there are two more show caves illuminated with coloured lights and containing brightly painted statues and paintings of Indian poets and characters from Hindu mythology. You can read the plaques containing pearls of oriental wisdom while strolling around the humid caves.
One of the caves also contains glass display tanks full of snakes and other reptiles. I have heard that they now also have rabbits and racoons in small cages which some visitors may find repugnant. The 4th attraction is Ramayana Cave. This cave is located on the left side when you are facing the hill close to a 15 metre high green statue of Hanuman, the monkey god.. It is decorated with statues and scenes from the Hindu epic, Ramayana.
Each time I go, I find fancier display and more colourful lights so that it now resembles a kind of Hindu theme park.
Definitely worth seeing. There is a separate fee of RM 5 to visit this cave. In the courtyard outside the caves you can see a statue of a five legged bull with an extra leg growing out of its back which used to roam freely in the temple grounds until its death from old age.
The fare in August was only RM2. The train has ladies-only coaches for the comfort and safety of female passengers. If you take your own car there is ample parking once you have negotiated the confusing road layout and reached the entrance to the cave complex.
There are a few restaurants vegetarian only being a Hindu Temple where you can get a tasty Indian curry of 4 veggie dishes, rice and poppadums served on a banana leaf, together with a fresh coconut juice for around RM9. The monkeys consider tug-of-war to be a challenge and may bite your hand before they let go!
The Batu Caves are located in the Gombak district, a northern suburb of Kuala Lumpur just eight miles from the city center. Thaipusam in late January sees a marked increase in the buses and transportation options shuttling people to the caves and back. You can use Kuala Lumpur's transportation system to get to the Batu Caves by the following methods:. Riding a bus to the Batu Caves in city traffic can take around 45 minutes. You are better off taking a train to the north and then transferring to bus or taxi for the remainder of the trip.
Alternatively, you can take bus 11 from the busy Bangkok Bank bus terminal on Jalan H. Lee near Chinatown all the way to the caves.
Arrange to have your driver pick you up later, or take the train back after you are finished exploring the caves. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance.
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Batu Caves is the focal point of the annual Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which attracts thousands of devotees and visitors. The procession more often than not, arrives at Batu Caves in the wee hours of the morning the next day; the entire celebration commences then and is a colourful event that lasts a total of eight hours.
In the past the festival has attracted more than one million pilgrims, making it one of the largest gatherings in the world. Kavadis are two huge semicircular ornate pieces of wood or steel which are bent and attached to a cross structure that can be balanced on the shoulders.
These frameworks are also usually combined with various metal hooks and skewers which are used to pierce the skin, cheeks and tongue. The kavadi is decorated with flowers and peacock feathers and some can weigh up to as much as kilos.
Some disciples also fulfil vows that they have made to the Gods by having their bodies pierced by hooks, needles and even skewers and visitors are often fascinated by the dedication of devotees.
The truly amazing feat is when followers begin the arduous climb up the steps to the top of the caves — the trek requires a stunning amount of endurance as they often have to work against the press of the bustling masses.
Priests wait at the top to sprinkle consecrated ash over the hooks and skewers piercing the devotees flesh before they are removed. Duration 3h Free cancellation. Perhaps the most well-known is the Read More». We try to provide free information that is as up-to-date and accurate as possible.
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