Since the beginning, a visit to the Batu Caves have been my number one on my list of things to visit in Malaysia.
The Batu Caves are located at one hour by train from Kuala Lumpur and it's very easy access from KL Sentral. The minute I arrived at destination I was stunned. Not only was I welcomed by some wild monkeys I also found myself in a real new type of environment, with temples, shrines and statues everywhere. It was so beautiful!
The Batu caves are actually composed of multiple caves with some of them open to public.
I continued a bit further until I arrived at the entrance of main cave with in front of it the impressive statue of Lord Murugan which is the Hindu's god of war. As it began to rain I decided to start the big climb to the top. Believe me, you will feel the 272 steps in your legs once your arrived on top but it's absolutely worth it! The view from there is just beautiful. Along the way you will certainly cross some cute but pretty rude little monkeys who would not hesitate to grab some food out of your bag pack.
Once you enter the cave you will discover a lot of different Hindu statues, shrines and a lot of other Hindu sacred places. One big temple in the middle makes everything very harmonious. Unfortunately they were renovating quite a lot so I couldn't take that many good pictures.
At the end of the cavern were even more steps leading to another part of the cave, much brighter then the one I was in. I climbed till the top and discovered once of the most magical places of the whole cave. This cave was open which let the light get through and the opportunity for plants to grow on the big limestone walls. In the middle, one of the prettiest little temple I have seen so far
I decided to move on and visit another cave a bit lower called the Dark Cave.
Whenever you want to visit this cave you need to join a 45 minutes' walking tour as it's a protected and secured area. I bought my ticket and was given a helmet and a torch before heading into the darkness.
The tour was really interesting as I learned about the the cave, its inhabitants and even got the occasion to see/smell some of them (bats, spiders, crazy insects...).
The entrance wasn't free but it was totally worth the price as all the money collected is going to the protection of the site.
Once the tour finished, I strolled a bit around the area, drunk out of a coconut, took some pictures and went back to Kuala Lumpur. I just stayed at my hostel as the day after I needed to wake up very early as I planned to leave to my next destination: Georgetown!
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