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	Batu Caves Sri Subramaniar Swamy Devasthanam
		It is the main cave, the temple cave, in a hilly massif known as Bukit Batu, Rocky Hill.
		When the caves were in a pristine state before 1860, several of the 18 cave mouths were used by the indigenous Besisi people as transit shelters when they went out hunting from their jungle hamlets.
		Batu Malai Sri Subramaniar Temple is managed by the Board of Management of Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Devasthanam (performing the role of Hindu Religious Consultant to the Government of Malaysia in determining the Hindu yearly calendar), which also manages the Sri Ganesar Temple at Court Hill.
	murugan.org /temples/batumalai.htm (1879 words)

	Batu Caves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batu Caves is a limestone hill to the north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which has a series of caves and cave temples.
		Of the various cave temples that comprise the site, the largest and best known is the Temple or Cathedral Cave, so named because it houses several Hindu shrines beneath its 100 m vaulted ceiling.
		A private company is running tours to the caves, otherwise contact the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) for permission and guidelines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batu_Caves (286 words)

	MalaysianCaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some caves are home to a wide variety of cave fauna such as bats, swiftlets, snakes, and invertebrates.
		The nearby Dark Cave is one of the longest caves in the peninsula, and is home to a wide range of cave fauna.
		Perak has many cave temples as well as Gua Tempurung which is open to the public and is equipped with electric lighting and walkways.
	www.geocities.com /cavingliz/MalaysianCaves.html (549 words)

	Thaipusam at Batu Caves
		Once a year for Thaipusam, Batu Caves is flooded with thousands of devotees, some have their body and toungues pierced with hooks and spears, carrying kavadis.
		Batu Caves is situated about seven miles north from the capital city, Kuala Lumpur.
		Upon reaching the foot of the caves, the statue is lifted and carried up the 200 plus steps and placed in the temple inside the caves.
	kyky.essortment.com /thaipusambatuc_rsji.htm (593 words)

	Thai Pusam at Batu Caves, Malaysia
		Kuala Lumpur: Hindus devotees thronged Batu Caves in a colourful fusion of faith, thanksgiving, and hope to mark the Thai Pusam festival yesterday.
		Samy Vellu, who spent about 10 hours on Saturday and yesterday urging the public to contribute towards the Batu Caves Primary School, raised more than RM 50,000 from the public.
		The main entrance to Batu Caves, where hundreds of thousands of Murugan devotees gather for Thai Pusam celebrations.
	murugan.org /temples/batu_caves.htm (622 words)

	Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
		Batu Caves Hindu Temple is famous for its annual crowd of 1 million devotees (so they claim) converging for a 2-day celebration.
		The huge Batu Caves are the best known attraction in the vicinity of K.L. The caves are in a towering limestone formation and were little known until about 100 years ago.
		The highlight of festivities held in Batu Caves is the annual Hindu Festival of Thaipusam which attracts devotees and the curious crowd to the caves.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah_Persekutuan/Kuala_Lumpur-1282074/Things_To_Do-Kuala_Lumpur-Batu_Caves-BR-1.html (1615 words)

	Thaipusam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A prayer ceremony is held at the foot of the caves and the flag of Lord
		On reaching, they lay down their kavadi and the milk or honey offering is poured on the statue of the deity as an act of thanksgiving, Those with hooks and skewers have a priest chant over them as the metal implements are removed and the wounds treated with hot ash.
		The festivities centered at Batu Caves is an exciting and thrilling spectacle but it also gets very crowded and claustrophobic and you need a lot of patience.
	tourmalaysia.tripod.com /thaipusam.htm (702 words)

	Batu Caves
		The Batu Caves are situated thirteen kilometers (seven miles) north of the capital city Kuala Lumpur.
		The caves are made of limestone and 400 meters long and 100 meter high.
		As they arrive at the shrine at the Batu Caves, the Swami removes the hooks, spears etc. The vow is finally fulfilled.
	www.malaysiasite.nl /batucaveseng.htm (617 words)

	Malaysia Genting highlands, Batu Caves
		Close to Kuala Lumpur are the Batu Caves.
		The Batu Caves is a temples where they held a very important festival called "Thaipusam" and every year it is very crowed and people from all places comes to visit and you can also see many tourist here.
		It is built in 1892 and the caves are 400 meter long and 120 meter high.
	www.svazi.com /svazi/msia2.htm (134 words)

	Transitions - Job Searching in NZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Surprisingly, the Batu Caves are situated only 13 kilometres outside of Kuala Lumpur, next to a suburb which has a wonderful water park.
		The caves are surrounded by an Indian park with religious figures dotted all over the sculptured landscape.
		The temples situated within the cave showed signs of wear and tear from the continuing moisture regardless of the weather outside.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /anime/batucaves.html (235 words)

	Worldisround - The Batu caves - Churches, Temples & Mosques in Kuala Lumpur pictures
		The Batu caves are located about 7 miles from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
		The main attraction in these caves other than the caves itself are the Hindu temples dedicated to various Indian gods, mainly Lord Kartikeya, who as per Hindu mythology is the son of the Lord Shiva.
		At these very caves the Thaipusam festival is held every year and almost 800000 devotees gather here at this very temple to take part in the festivities.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/9964/text.html (315 words)

	Show Caves of Malaysia: Batu Caves
		Local buses to Batu Caves at the Pudu Raya Bus Terminal in Kuala Lumpur.
		Batu Caves are three main caves and several small caves.
		The ceiling is 100 m above ground and this huge chamber is lit by daylight from several holes in the ceiling.
	www.showcaves.com /english/my/showcaves/Batu.html (362 words)

	Batu Caves -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Batu Caves -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Within the caves is a (A person who adheres to Hinduism) Hindu temple.
		This serves as the focus of the Hindu community's yearly (Click link for more info and facts about Thaipusam festival) Thaipusam festival.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/batu_caves.htm (93 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two of the most notable caves are Temple Cave and Dark Cave, the latter of which is a larger and longer cave, extending over 0.8km into the limestone and comprising several high roofed chambers (Weber, 1968).
		Invertebrate species are particularly abundant and include planarian Dugesia batuensis which is endemic to Batu caves, cave cockroach Pycnoscelus striatus, cave cricket Diestrammena gravelyii and tailless whip scorpion Sarax brachydactylus.
		Temple Cave is a religious shrine for over one million Tamil Nadus living in Peninsular Malaysia (Weber, 1968).
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0940v.htm (442 words)

	The Batu Caves of Malaysia
		Not only is the upper cave home to the Hindu Temple, but the band of monkeys seem to make this home too.
		Returning through the large cave, I stopped to take pictures of the vaulted ceiling with the shimmering shafts of sunlight illuminating the stalactites that hang from the ceiling and walls.
		I was thankful that we had climbed up to the caves before the late morning sun brought on the heat of the day.
	www.magiccarpetjournals.com /batu_caves.htm (948 words)

	nimbupani \| Kuala Lumpur Diary Day One
		After a bit of a sleep, we freshened up to climb the 272 steps of Batu Caves which are just a few minutes off KL.
		The view from the caves is gorgeous and the holy shrines just makes you want to worship even if you were an atheist.
		The cave has its fair share of graffiti and it was sad to see graffitti painted with those aerosol cans that are really ugly to look at.
	www.nimbupani.com /2005/03/23/kuala_lumpur_diary_day_one.php (924 words)

	IgoUgo: Kuala Lumpur Attractions, Kuala Lumpur Festivals, Things To Do In Kuala Lumpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Caves are popular not only for being the southern-most limestone outcrop in the Northern Hemisphere, but the labyrinth that makes up the Batu Caves also supports a variety of exotic wildlife.
		The main cave holds a shrine of Lord Subramaniam, a Hindu deity.
		The caves are of interest to geologist and regular folks like my family.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=5062 (464 words)

	Exotic and Mysterious Places
		Nearly 185 feet from the forest floor is the entrance to the largest of the caves, an incredible limestone cave with a vaulted, stalactite encrusted, ceiling nearly 200 feet high.
		The Batu Caves were first discovered by Europeans in 1879, but the caves have been in use by indigenous people since prehistoric times.
		Transported on a chariot of silver, worshipers follow a procession to Batu Caves where the image is placed in the Temple Cave.
	www.zuko.com /exotic_n_mysterious.htm (1521 words)

	kiat.net: Kuala Lumpur - Tourist Attractions
		Discovered in 1878, the Batu Caves are part of a large limestone outcrop and house several items of religious significance to Hindus.
		Inside this cave it is dark, damp, cool and a little eerie, but nonetheless spectacular.
		The most fascinating time to visit the Batu Caves is during the festival of Thaipusam, which usually falls in January or February.
	www.kiat.net /malaysia/KL/attractions.html (5693 words)

	Batu Caves Railway Station
		Nevertheless, the remaining sector between Sentul and Batu Caves with a distance of about 7.5 km was not considered in this development since it was not viable at that time to upgrade the stretch due to low demand and ridership.
		The existing single track route from Sentul to Batu Caves will be upgraded to double tracks and equiped with new infrastructure that includes new bridges, a new Batu Caves Station, halts at Taman Wahyu, Kampung Batu and Batu Kantomen, Electrification System and modern signalling and communication systems.
		The execution of this project is expected to commence before the year 2001 and is expected to be completed within 30 months.
	www.keretapi.com /batucaves.html (337 words)

	Batu Cave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Batu Cave has a Hindu temple 272 steps up and inside.
		Monkeys in the cave will approach you and eat your food.
		Be sure to stretch your legs well before going up, otherwise you will ache for days and days...
	www.angelfire.com /super/defalco/malaysia/malaysiaBatu.html (40 words)

	MaclooMedia: Visiting Batu Caves
		She has visited the caves at least twice a year her whole life, even though she is not a Hindu, and she likes the exercise.
		The caves are sealed off now, because some number of people who went into them never found their way out again; like Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, they got lost.
		Kiran and her oldest sister, Raj (who is visiting from London for a few months), decided it would be a good experience for me to open up some durian fruit they had bought that morning at a local market.
	www.macloo.com /blog/archives/000119.html (1075 words)

	Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Formed within the framework of an imposing limestone outcrop about 400 million years ago, Batu Caves actually consists of three main caves and several smaller ones.
		To reach it, one has to climb 272 steps, a feat performed by many Hindu worshippers on the way to the caves to offer prayers to their revered deities.
		It is a 2km long network of relatively untouched caverns containing a large number of cave mammals and a living fossil (trap door spider) (view photo).
	www.mmadventure.com /activities/caving/batu_caves (318 words)

	Batu Caves - Kuala Lumpur - Reviews of Batu Caves - TripAdvisor
		Also used for Hindu festivals and pilgrimages, these are impressive limestone caves.
		Batu Caves, its basically a Hindu Temple in Caves (Limestone caves).
		My Family and I were passing the Batu Caves aswe left KL to go to the Genting Highlands.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g298570-d317520-Reviews-Batu_Caves-Kuala_Lumpur_Wilayah_Persekutuan.html (396 words)

	Worldisround - The monkeys of the Batu Caves - Churches, Temples & Mosques in Kuala Lumpur photos
		Worldisround - The monkeys of the Batu Caves - Churches, Temples & Mosques in Kuala Lumpur photos
		Once you get into the caves though the monkeys smell your water and the jump on you trying to get the water.
		This mother and her baby are on the steps on the Batu Caves, Malaysia.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/3731 (188 words)

	2Bangkok.com Forum - Work on KTM Komuter Sentul-Batu Caves extension begins next year
		KUALA LUMPUR: Work on the long-awaited KTM Komuter extension from Sentul to Batu Caves will finally begin early next year, with completion scheduled for 2008.
		The 7.2km extension from Sentul to Batu Caves — which involves the building of a second track, stations, electrification and signalling systems — was announced in 1998 but was postponed numerous times.
		Here's a little map of the Batu Caves extension and a short article about it.
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=994 (591 words)

	BATU CAVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Situated at 12 km north of Kuala Lumpur.
		Discovered over a hundred years ago, the caves consists of three caves formed by the massive limestone natural formations.
		The most impressive and largest of the three caves is the Temple Cave which has 272 steps to climb to the top.
	www.regit.com /malaysia/intplace/selangor/batucave.htm (66 words)

	Batu Caves and Suburbs Kuala Lumpur Sightseeing from Viator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Batu Caves and Suburbs Kuala Lumpur Sightseeing from Viator
		On the way, you will pass by typical Malay house before coming to your last stop, the spectacular Batu Caves.
		This massive limestone outcrop and its cavernous interior is home to Hindu deities and one will need to climb its 272 steps to fully appreciate the caves.
	viator.com /tours/Kuala-Lumpur/3705KUL11/Batu-Caves-and-Suburbs (468 words)

	Worldisround - Malaysia 2001-Batu Caves - Malaysia photos
		statue for the Buddhism at the entree of the Cave
		Walking over the bridge to the cave next to the first one.
		If i visti the cave from where I have to buy this things.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/11717 (399 words)

	THAIPUSAM 2004 - BATU CAVES (1) - highfever's FotoPage - Fotopages.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even since a kid, I have always been fascinated with photography.
		On Thaipusam 2004, I visited Batu Caves for the very first time.
		The slight drizzle upon arrival did not dampen my spirit.
	highfever.fotopages.com /?entry=383053 (111 words)

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