Alhamdulillah another wishlist checked! ✅
It's been a long time since I really really wanna try to climb the steep stairs of Batu Caves, Gombak, Selangor - One of the attraction places in Malaysia. Jealous okay, even the foreigner who came had already been there. So supposely as a cool nitezen I should try this beforehand. Hiks. Thanksss to my dearest friends for making one of my checklist came trueee as I wont go there alone ❤
By the time I went, there were a lot of people (Hindu) until it was very hard to find an empty car park. And at the first point I thought we were unlucky to choose that day to come but no, honestly, after a few minutes, I was glad we were going there during they day they had a ceremony as I could learnt more and watch it closerly .☺ #letseewhatIlearnt
Batu Caves is a famous place for Hindu's prayer. There is a few of temples built in this limestone caves, so to go into the cave, you have to climb up 272 stairs. Tangga dia cerun, bukan landai okeh. Baru naik 10 anak tangga dah boleh rasa dia punya mengah. There are a lot of people who came there for pray, regardless the age, oldest, olders, teenagers, children and even babies. For the babies, they put them in the 'usungan' with the long rod dan usung mereka naik sampai atas to pray as an appreciation to their God for giving them a blessing with a child. Ada yang naik normal macam biasa and I saw ada yang climbing the stairs by using their knees. Mungkin ni salah satu cara diorang untuk hapuskan dosa. Ada yang naik sambil usung something atas kepala atau bahu diorang which is called as kavadi - Kadavi ni macam satu beban yang mereka bawak berat mengikut kemampuan masing-masing dan sepanjang naik tu akan ada orang iringi dan mereka baca ayat ayat diorang lah. Dari semasa ke semasa, pembawa kavadi akan berehat di tangga-tangga tertentu , berehat dan diberi minum. Oh lupa, ada jugak yang bawak bekas berisi susu putih kerana susu dianggap paling suci.
Dalam cave.
Sedar tak sedar aku dah sampai dalam gua. Gua ni sejukk okayy, ada tempat yang aku takleh masuk sebab kena tanggalkan kasut and tempat sembahyang diorang so no point la aku nak pergi just tinjau dari jauh. Once dah masuk sini, jaga adab, jaga mulut, jangan buat kotor sebab ni tempat sembahyang diorang, hormat. Lepas setengah jam kat atas, kiteorang gerak turun balik adoii seriau tau time turun sebab dia cerun so kena jaga step takut tergelincir. Beware of your things too sebab sini ade monyet nanti dia rampas plastik plastik kat tangan.
Sampai kat bawah layan merpati banyak banyak kejap. Hahaha.
Dan otw balik kiteorang singgah Donut Viral kat Gombak. Alehei lupa pulak ambik gambarrrr grrr.
Alhamdulillah things went well and I'm so looking forward to tick a lot more of my checklist ❤
Till then.
