Dec 2012: Where I nearly met the sunbird at Batu Caves and said hello to Hanuman

So I wake up and its the last day of my world wide tour, its a bit misty day in KL

Peer down at KL

Nice architecture

Lovely lovely green all over

So Ive got to get to that place, in the distance

 

Lovely reflections

 

And lovely directions

Reach the station and waiting for the train

Here’s the train..

 

ticket ready

I climb on the train, lovely clean cool air-conditioned train. While I get a nicely illuminated map of the route.

nice

Some of the buildings on the side of the road were brilliant. Look at this colonial era building.

Passing through some lovely stations

And minarets, and mosques and north Indian temples and south Indian temples.

An old old tank. Water tank..

A train shed at Sentul

We have moved out of the city now

I get out at Batu Caves station and see my idol right up in front, but why this bilious colour? 

 

Monkey Food available, eh?

And a lovely gold painted temple

 

the cliffs behind the temple are tall, huge and amazing

  

I pop out and turn left to see the Hanuman temple

the famous scene is replicated…

  

 

Behind him, is the actual temple

you can make out the size of the statue by the plants growing out of the toes.

 

the cliffs are quite amazing, seriously

 

I was reminded of the scene described in the Sun Bird

 

Hello?

I snuck in

 

Ramayana Cave?

Curious

 

Some huge cracks up on the roof.

And the diorama in the right, looks like they are making it. And then I was chased out

 

peering up at the cliff face, it would be brilliant to climb this

I head back

the temple is really well decorated but why this bilious colour, eh?

And then this temple..

 

which is in front of this huge crack in the cliff.

this temple is really well set off

white sculptures against the gold painted top

See? 

hmmm, no shoes, I am not going to go up

 

And then i see this fantastic root structure clinging to the cliff

and this mongoose looking squirrel

who runs off

 

Beautiful.. 

I walk down towards the main caves

that’s a serious number of air conditioning units

 

and some kind of a exhibition? 

Another little temple

with some lovely koi carp swimming around

And then i turn left 

And another little temple on the left, and when I look left, my jaw drops….