We had an awesome sleep last night and really didn’t get mobile until about 8:30 this morning.
Breakfast at the hotel was really good. We tried different types of food and it was really tasty (not sure when it happened exactly but I have become a bit of a foodie!).
The day started with us catching the metro and eventually making it to Baku Caves. The first thing to notice is the LARGE number of stairs to climb to get to the main cave
If I recall correctly there are 272 steps for us to climb; you can see the people working their way up the brightly coloured stairs behind me.
We knew it was a sacred spot for the Hindu’s and so we expected that Caro would have to use a skirt. The internet information failed us as I had read we could rent a skirt for about a dollar (rather than Caro having to carry her Thailand purchased skirt around all day with us). That info was false and she had to buy (at about $C5 it wasn’t the end of the world),
As we progressed up the stairway I couldn’t help noticing how filthy and dirty the place was. There were hundreds, if not thousands of plastic water bottles all over the place. Really third world stuff! Caro later found out that yesterday was the final day of a religious festival called Thaispusam. Upwards of a million people participate with multiple tens of thousands coming to the cave site. In fact there were still some activities going on. We saw people (men, women, and children, getting their heads brush cut and having some kind of yellow colouring placed in their remaining hair). Anyway once we knew the reason for the volume of trash it all made sense (cleaners were hard at it when we arrived).
The cave is massive and has a number of shrines inside (with people participating in ritual as we wandered on by). The following two photos are inside the primary cave.
After returning from the main cave we went to a couple of smaller caves which contained Hindu gods and Hindu stories written out on the placards to read. These caves were lit up in various colours and even the roofs had been painted.
We took the metro (called LRT here, like in Edmonton) back to Sentral station (which incidentally is big as it has to accommodate 5 or 6 separate types of transportation lines in it).
We were hungry by then (2:30 ish) and went to the mall attached to the station and had some chicken/noodle combination in some fancy sauce-really tasty!
After arriving back at the hotel we got into our swimming gear and spent time at the pool. Actually we spent most of our time looking at the monster high rises being build right beside us.
First a photo of the closest (to us) Petronas tower taken last night from our bedroom window.
Next, a photo of an 80 story building going up right beside us. It is located (from our point of view in hotel) to the left of the Petronas tower. If I had turned the camera sideways I could have got both buildings in a single photo (but obviously not show the heights).
Although I don’t have a photo of it, the second tallest building in the world is also located here in Kuala Lumpur
Tonight we went out for street food in the night market right next door. I took the following photo at that time. Our hotel is 12 stories high and is in the foreground, right hand side. One of the Petronas towers is behind our hotel, the 80 story one under construction is the one on the left hand side of this photo and access to KLCC park is between the 80 story building and the building in the middle of the photo.
We went back to KLCC park to watch the water fountain show (and, as stated before, to gaze at the most beautiful modern buildings I have ever seen!). Tonight the fountains had a show set to music and it was a much moe interesting experience than last night.
As Caro mentioned on the way back to the hotel “it was another wonderful day”.
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