Em & Tola's Travel Blog

Yesterday we took a local bus for about 45 minutes to get to the Batu Caves. They are a sacred Hindu place right outside KL where over a million Hindus go on a pilgrimage during January & Febuary every year. It is a beautiful place, but very overcrowded and dirty. Almost all of the tourist attractions we have gone to in Malaysia have had garbage everywhere which is really too bad.


The Batu Caves where very beautiful and it was great to see all of the Hindu people perform their rituals in their traditional outfits. Up a long, long flight of stairs there is a temple where people light coconuts on fire and later smash them against the cave wall. Next to the temple around 30 wild monkeys where running around eating garbage that all the tourists leave behind.


Today was the last full day we will spend in KL. We spent the biggest part of it with Daniel, a Malaysian guy that I had met in Seoul at summer school 2009. He first took us to an area called Bangsar to have lunch. We had Southern Indian food which meant food served with rice and curry on a banana leaf. It was quite delicious and made us look forward to our trip through India even more.


After lunch we went to Daniel's friends house. Since it was Chinese New Year, they suggested that we gamble for a bit. Apparently the two things you do on Chinese New Year are eat and gamble. It ended well with us winning a whopping 2 ringits (50 cents or 4 kronor).

After the gambling session we said goodbye to Daniel and went to pick up our old Finnish friend Antti who will join us on our trip for the coming 3,5 weeks. We ended the day together by walking to the Petronas one last time and having dinner in our favorite food court.

Tomorrow we are off to the mountains and the Cameron Highlands. It will be nice to go to the countryside after 2 weeks in major cities.

Oh, and if you notice that the pictures are a lot clearer and nicer than they used to be it is because we got a new camera at the Low Yat Plaza in KL. We love it!