{"id":631,"date":"2004-06-02T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T02:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2004-06-02T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T02:38:26","slug":"batu_cave_malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Batu Cave, Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Batu Cave, Malaysia<\/h1>\n
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April 1, 2003 <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I was going to Islamic Museum but I got on a cab drove by an Indian. 
\nThe Indian driver convinced me not go to a Hindu temple instead
\nof Islamic Museum.  The driver told me that the Hindu temple
\nis just nearby and only five minutes by drive; I agreed.  I
\nmade wrong decision. <\/p>\n

He drove on the freeway, took almost 20 minutes and there was no
\nexit yet.  The digits on the meter are keeping jumping and
\nI was angry.  Eventually, we reach the Batu Cave.  The
\ncab fee is 54 Ringgits, it was ok.  The driver told me that
\nhe will pause the meter and wait for me.  I made wrong decision
\nagain.<\/p>\n

The cave and temple is at the mountainside.   I had to
\nwalk the steps to the upper building.  There are 277 steps
\naround 200 meters high, almost vertical.  I climbed to the
\ncave, the cave is closed.  There also some temple building
\naround, I prayed there and one monk put some powder on my forehead. 
\nI was also allowed walk into another dark cave, but the ground was
\ntoo slide and I dared not go further.<\/p>\n

I walked around, watched one pray ceremonial and bought sari for
\nSam.  The driver was still waiting there and the meter was
\nstill 54 Ringgits.  Everything looked ok.  The problem
\nwas that once the cab started again, the meter increased fast.  
\nIt quickly jumped to 175 Ringgits when we arrived at my hotel. 
\nThat means the return fee was more than twice than going. 
\nEven worse, the driver said he would wait for me by free, but that
\nmeant no more than half hour.  He was going to charge me the
\nextra waiting time.  NO WAY!  I paid him 160 Ringgits
\ntotal after bargain. <\/p>\n

This is the first Hindu temple I saw in my life.  Batu Cave
\nis really beautiful and interesting.  If without the story
\nof the driver, I will be much happier.<\/p>\n

Related links:
\nAn interest article
\nof Indian art<\/a>
\nBatu
\nCaves, Malaysia Nature Socity website<\/a>
\nBatu
\nCave (Black Wind Cave), TBSN Ebooks website<\/a>
\nBatu
\nCave, a misc website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Batu Cave, Malaysia April 1, 2003 I was going to Islamic Museum but I got on a cab drove by an Indian.  The Indian driver convinced me not go to a Hindu temple instead of Islamic Museum.  The driver told me that the Hindu temple is just nearby and only five minutes by drive; I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-310"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}