I was driving pass Batu Caves while sending my car for service in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. I did this once every 2 months at least. Ironically, this afternoon was quite different from my other previous trips there. The sun is bright and blue with some clouds shading part of the Batu Caves which made the golden Muruga statue so attractive and it stroke my mind immediately (perhaps I only noticed it after having my new camera 
). I decided to visit the infamous tourist attraction of KL…. once again after some 10 years… to take PHOTOS!
Entrance is free but car drivers like me needed to pay a negligible fees of RM2 for parking (RM2 for a wonderful photography session…. I paid immediately!). Once I stepped out of my car, I pulled out my camera and what I could hear was endless shutter sounds and nothing else Seating in front of the 400 million year old limestone hill and series of caves is the 130 feet tall statue of Lord Muruga which Batu Caves was dedicated to. This huge golden statue of Lord Muruga was constructed for 3 years and completed in January 2006 which is claimed to be the tallest Lord Muruga statue in the world.
Beside the statue is the 272 step steep concrete staircase which visitors have to climb before reaching the Cathedral Cave, the biggest cave of Batu Caves, some 100m above ground level.
Once you reached the top, there are stalls selling souvenirs and drinks in front of the cave entrance and underneath those stalactites jutting from the cave’s ceiling. Don’t be scared if some water dripping onto your head from above, it’s only mountain dew
Visitors could go into the temple of huge cave and find lots of Indian religious statues and paintings. If you are brave enough, there is a guy who could ‘lend’ you his big snake for you to pamper.
While I was on my way down the steps, suddenly there were about ten Cynomolgus monkeys running up the steps! Then I heard a young lady shouted to them: “No more foods for you! Go away little xxxxx!”
Before I left Batu Caves, I saw also children feeding pigeons at the square in front. Close-up shot please!
Batu Caves is also holding the Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia every year which attracts over 1.5 million pilgrims, and it is one of the largest annual gatherings in the world. – Travel Feeder.
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I was digging out those old photos of mine to see how my old camera performed on all sort of scenery shot and I found this photo. Though it was three years back when I took this photo (or actually my wife took the shot behind me ), it is still beautiful to me. This shot was taken from a mountain top when we were enjoying the mountain breeze where we could overseeing the nice farms and villages at the hinterland. It was a sunny afternoon on top of the mountain with overcasting weather over some part of the farms down further away.
I’m going to write something on our trip there. Before that, it would be interesting to have a travel photo quiz on this: Where in the world do you think this love mountain is located? A little hints on this would be a famous hinterland on the western part of a world renown beach getaway. – Travel Feeder.
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Since I bought it 2 weeks ago, I have been practising and exploring all the features of this Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 compact camera with no reservation. Until this morning, I have shot a total of 1100 photos which I think is quite enough to understand, if not fully, the characteristics of my new toy. I did [...]
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My new toy really got me crazy for the past week. All my leisure has been spent on photo shooting, camera setting, feature testing, trying hard to learn more on photography by reading photo magazine and also surfing net for beautiful photo shots by other experts (regretfully little on blogging ). While searching for great photos, I found this [...]
