a little bit more catchup!

hello! it's christmastime! and i'm not in malaysia! i'm home in america, sick as a bug, catching up on all my terriblewonderful tv, and being lazy. life is almost perfect.

but. i forgot to post after my last post! the week of thanksgiving, an old friend happened to be coming through KL. i was so excited because this would be the first time i got do be the tour guide, not just the tourist. so we did the following:


i finally visited batu caves. batu caves is an extremely popular hindu shrine, featuring an extremely large statue of the hindu deity Murugan. as you can see, it's pretty large. and features very many steps. over 200, which actually is not the most number of steps i have climbed in one place. poenari castle, in romania, requires one to march up over 1400 steps to reach the castle. it's worth it when you know it actually was vlad the impaler's castle. or one of them, at least. i digress.


we visited on a rather cloudy day, so i'm wondering what it's like to go back on a sunny day and see the view looking out again. it's pretty crazy though.




inside the actual caves, you'll find the home of not only many shrines, but many monkeys. and those monkeys, they are vicious. maybe i'm just a littttttttle bit skeeved after a monkey charged at me on tioman, but i am not about to mess around with a monkey. and the monkeys in the caves are literally all around you, all above you, you never know where they'll come out from. i felt uneasy. but still, it was a pretty magnificently beautiful place.


the steps coming down actually hurt more than going up. how does that work?



we then headed over to pavilion, where we had some dinner, watched some candy being made, and looked at the christmas displays. let me tell you what, now having been through every major religion's holiday in malaysia, i can say with 100% positiveness they go all out for every. holiday. pretty impressive.



finally, we headed over to view the fountain show at klcc park, and get a last nightly view at the towers.

running around my second home in tourist mode has only made me realize again what a beautiful place it is. sometimes i am frustrated, what with needing to go to five different grocery stores to find something that i could easily find at home, ordering an apple and getting an orange, having a $50 bottle of wine break because of laziness on the store's part and then having to buy another $50 bottle of wine with no customer service, but at the end of the day, it really is a wonderful place to be. there's not a single part of me that regrets my decision to be there. i am a lucky girl.

Categories: kuala lumpur, malaysia, pavilion, suria klcc, touristy things