Inside the Batu Cave Temple in Kuala Lumpur

This is what it's like inside the Batu Caves Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now, first to get up here, you gotta climb these 278 steps, and then when you get to the top, let me turn the camera so you can see what I can see, then you get to the top of the staircase, you'll go through this little arch right here, and you'll be at one of the first little temples, not the main temple, but there's a lot of lesser temples here in addition. Welcome to the main temple. The main temple is in this cave right here. It is said that the Indians petitioned the British back in the colonial days to be able to build this temple here because it resembled the holy sites in the Himalayas, the caves and the mountains there. Obviously when you get to the top, a lot of people are thirsty because it's hot here in KL. So there's a drink stand where you'll pay a premium for drinks, so probably bring a drink with you. Second drink stand over. Right here, the staircase going into the cave has some kind of overhead metal. Maybe things were falling down or something like that on people. That sounds no good. We've got some Hindu art right here as we go down. We'll take a closer look at these statues. We have a little gift shop. On this side of the staircase, let's take a look at the gift shop as we walk down the stairs into the main cave. It's wet in here, it's a rainy day today, and so it kind of like drips into the cave. The whole cave is just wet, even though the rain can't really get in the cave, but I feel like this whole place is so humid that... It likely just never really dries. We've got some statues, magnets, postcards. Everything you could possibly want as a souvenir to bring back. One magnet's going to cost you eight ringgit, or about two US dollars. Purses, bags, feathers. We have something else up here. We've got an elephant. They're going up this staircase. Why does it have 278 steps to get into here? It is said that in order to be close to God, one must suffer. Thank you very much. And, yes, can be a little bit of suffering going up that staircase. Okay, now descending into the main cave, we have the main temple over here on the left. This is in the end. There's another staircase that goes up that side that we're going to check out. The cave continues, but the main temple is right here. And we'll kind of look at this from the side. To go in, you have to take off your shoes, which I did that earlier, but it's too hard to do while I'm holding the camera, taking off my shoes, putting it back on again. It's very colorful. It's got these nice peacocks that are out in front of it. There are colorful lights inside to decorate it. Looks like a good selfie spot. Someone's found right there at the bottom of the temple. Inside the main temple, it's got a roof so it doesn't drip in there. They keep the floor clean since people are taking off their shoes. It's got some incense that's burning over here to be scented. This is the... Second staircase to go up. We'll go up in just a moment, but we'll continue to look in the main temple. The scent from the incense definitely grows even stronger over here. They're doing a function over here. That's what I'm doing. Never mind, at this staircase, it looks like there's two for going up and two for going down. Main staircase, I don't know why half of it was closed. Like, you could only go up or down half of it, and they had closed the other half of the staircase. But you can see the sign there. To Murugan, that's the god of war. This part of the cave at the top is open to the air up here. So I guess it's not like a, is it a true cave? Well, I guess it's a cave, but it's not like a one-way cave. You know, you won't be trapped in if the front closes. So you could always, they could always rappel down and come and get you back here, this way. It's two o'clock in the morning. It's a lot of... A lot of exercise going up those stairs, for sure. Especially after going over the first set. So here's the other little temple in here. Also, some incense burning. A price list for various things. There's another little display back over here. This is a stalactite or stalagmite? Which one comes down? But boy, I mean, let me show you. This is low right here. This is low. Hello, cave. Here's the, looks like they're, looks like they're doing some work on this one here, under construction, it appears. It's a very mystical, magical place. Definitely like nowhere I've ever been before. I feel like I've only seen scenes like this in movies, you know, where you're like down in some deep jungle cave in some James Bond movie. This is the secret hideout of his latest evil nemesis. Looks like some of the workers are getting rested. Just a lot of green moss on the whole thing. This just never dries. It's always wet. Oh, it looks like there's a... Looks like the cave continues on back that way. I don't know that I want to crawl back that way, really. That looks like the kind of place that you would absolutely get trapped away in there. The best part about this whole thing is admission is completely free, no tickets. Just if you're if you drive here, you pay to park. If you're taking public transit, you can take the train from KL Central Station. There's a Batu Cave station that brings you right here. Our fellow explorers, if your travels are bringing you to Kuala Lumpur, you might enjoy checking out some of my other videos from the series up on the screen. Links are also in the description below. As usual, I won't say goodbye because I'll see you in the next video.