Supposedly even the longest journey starts with one step. After a 13 km trip from Kuala Lumpur to the north and a leisurely climb of several hundred steps after the first, you'll arrive at the entrance to Batu Caves, a colorful and mysterious Hindu temple.
They consist of three main caves and a number of smaller ones. The caves are made of limestone and they were discovered in 1892. The temple caves are devoted to several Hindu gods and goddesses and the atmosphere in the caves gives you a mystical, transformed feeling, even if you're not a Hindu. Perhaps there is also an entrance to a parellel universe.
No doubt Batu Caves inspired Fritjof Capra to write
The Tao of Physics. His book describes the parallels of Eastern philosophies and modern physics, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics as well as in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
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Phone: +60 3 2287 9422
Address: Near the Village of Batu Caves.
Directions: 13 km north of Kuala Lumpur.
Website: http://www.malaysiasite.nl/batucaveseng.htm
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on Jun 13, 2007
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