The Batu Caves are one of Malaysia’s most popular tourist attractions. They serve as a religious site for Hindu worshippers and are the focal point of the annual Thaipusam festival every year.

The entrance to the Batu caves entails walking a few hundred meters east of the station. You know that you've arrived at the proper destination when you see the 42.7m (140-foot) gold statue of the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The constant sound of drums reached the sky as almost two million people flooded the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple at Batu Caves to celebrate Thaipusam this year.

The Batu Caves limestone hills are one of the 20 geosites. On Nov 16, Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah officially declared the GHL Geopark as the state’s first national geopark.

Batu Caves as featured in the tourism pamphlet of 1914, compared with 100 years later. (Great Malaysian Railway Journeys pic) The following is a write-up on Batu Caves in Gombak, Selangor, as ...

THE Batu Caves, near Selangor, were discovered in 1879, and the general character of the caves and their fauna was made known in 1898 by H. N. Ridley, and subsequent faunal records were made by ...

The Batu Caves are one of Malaysia’s most popular tourist attractions. They serve as a religious site for Hindu worshippers and are the focal point of the annual Thaipusam festival every year.

THE resumption of business activities inside a 400-million-year-old limestone cave is raising public concerns about the long term effects on Selangor’s Gombak-Hulu Langat Geopark (GHL Geopark ...