After Playing Now Go Praying Chinese Gods In Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Thean Hou is one of the oldest temple and tourist destinations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It became one of the main tourist attraction in its own right, especially during Chinese new year, festivals and birthdays of various gods for Chinese people.

Goddess of Heaven Tian Hou resides in this six-tiered Buddhist temple. Along with goddess, there are other gods like Guan Yin (goddess of mercy) and Shui Wei Sheng Niang (goddess of waterfront). It represents a combination of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

It’s one of the largest Chinese temples in Southeast Asia. You will see the tourists and visitors very often in this temple. Some devotees burn joss sticks infront of Buddhist pagoda, kneel in prayer and place offerings at the feet of gods.

The traditional style and architectural designs are the embodiments of this temple. You can even see the dragon inspired columns and pagoda rooftops with its intrinsic structures and ornate carvings including Phoenixes looking at the sky. You will be able to enjoy the spectacular view of Kuala Lumpur along with Petronas twin towers and KL towers from the rooftop of the temple.

The entrance gate of the Thean Hou temple shows its charming piece of architecture which keeps up the chinese architectural constructional style.

The temple always decorated with red lanterns at festival times which represents the prosperity and good fortune. Inside the temple, visitors can have their fortune told by temple monks. There are 3 fortune telling machines you can draw a lot by selecting one sole stick that sticks out and find out the number it shows and match it to the same box number, pink slip of paper with written fortune appears in chinese and english language. Every year cultural activities like mooncake festival and wesak day are celebrated in the temple.

The building has four levels, where in the fourth level temple was located. The cultural and religious activities held regularly at the temple main hall fourth level. Second and third level mainly functions as marriage registration centre and dinner ceremonies for chinese people. First level has the canteen filled with chinese cuisines. On valentines day most of the marriages are held here in a grand way.

Beside the temple, there is a small garden with altruistic sculptures of chinese gods and 12 animals representing chinese zodiacs.The cycle repeats itself for all the animals every year. Every year one animal will get chosen as the fortune for chinese people in Zodiac. The chosen animal self made statue will be kept beside the temple for a whole year. Each zodiac animal represents the year and common characteristics of people born on those years on the small stone infront of the statue.

The small area of tortoise pond and chinese medicinal herbs garden located outside the temple. There is a path to the turtle pond with a number of small turtles. It is popular especially with small childrens and contains the turtles cramped together. Don’t throw any coins in the pond since all the coins are not eatable and hazardous to turtles.

The backyard of the temple is filled with different types of plants and trees that keep the atmosphere pleasant and irresistible, making the entire temple seems to be wrapped in nature.

You can take some good pictures with nice sceneries while you are in the temple along with some small statues and garden areas. The beautiful sceneries of the temple make you believe and experience the peaceful and spiritual uplifting while you are in the temple area. Though its too commercial now a days still its the largest temple in malaysia.

You can spend 1-2 hours in a temple and get the experience of chinese culture. I will definitely recommend this temple to the visitors who are visiting for the first time in Kuala Lumpur. The temple at night time during the chinese new year or festival times filled with sparkling red lanterns have a vibrant and elegant look.

How to reach:

Unlike many attractions, you cannot reach this temple by train or local bus. You can only reach this temple by using a taxi or by walk. You can book taxi or grabcar from KL sentral to Thean hou temple directly, it costs around 5-6 ringgits.

• To reach this temple you need to get down at Tun sambanthan monorail station from KL sentral.
• Cross the road by using the bridge to the school named as Kuen cheng high school (chinese school).
• Walk in the left side lane for 600 metres you will see the sign board showing thean hou temple and follow the lead.

Beautifull Waterfalls Call Jeram Janggut in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

It’s truly an amazing time to spend here at this waterfalls. One hour 30-minute hike looks pale when you finally see the Jeram Janggut waterfalls. It is located near the village Kampung Langkap in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It’s not a popular place, but the place is worth visiting when you are in Malaysia. Many local people don’t know about this place and not all the travellers visit this waterfalls which is deep in the forest and so beautiful.

This is truly an adventurous and exciting place to visit. With its clean and relatively untouched surroundings, the waterfall is ideal for a day trip to wilderness close to the forest. This may be a good time to visit, that it is less attractive to visitors who want to have fun and make your happy moments together with friends or family.

Follow Leftside tar road

Once you reach the Langkap village either you can walk, go by two wheelers or four wheeler Vehicle to half of the trail or full trail until you reach waterfalls. The road is very narrow and has limited space on the trail.

Huge trees are surrounding the waterfalls like all the nature is protecting that place from strangers. The atmosphere surrounding the waterfalls releases all your stress in your body and mind. It makes your environment peaceful with the natural sounds.

You can go and stand below the waterfalls, it’s a little bit hard to stand below since the force of water is so heavy and pushing you down completely. The land below the waterfalls is a bit flat and not much deep at the waterfalls place so you can stand easily below falls, the water level is low in the area you are standing.

You can swim in the water easily, it’s not deep. For young people who want to have private time with friends can come and see this beautiful waterfalls and be amazed.

Make sure to take insect repellent or leech protection, since its unavoidable because while you are walking automatically some leeches will stick to your body. It is not dangerous so make sure to avoid the insects while on the way.

Along the way, you will hear the water flowing sound continuously either from one direction or from both sides. Do not falter any sideway of the road go straight until you reach the destination. the trek to the waterfalls will take around minimum 2 hours and there are multiple ways while you are going so it will be a bit confusing. If you lost the way please check any bike tire or 4 wheeler vehicle trails that may lead to the correct way.

You can even camp near the waterfall place along with friends. You can do BBQ and other stuff for entertainment.

Do not throw anything plastic material or foods near the waterfalls, hence the place is very clean and good. Take good care of nature and protect the environment, it will take good care of us and protect us.

Don’t miss this beautiful waterfalls when you are in Malaysia, this is definitely a place worth visiting once in your lifetime. We don’t see many waterfalls in our life right, So live the life by exploring all kinds of places like waterfalls, beaches etc.

How to Reach:

You cannot reach this waterfall by bus or train. One needs to have car or taxi to reach this place at Kampung langkap.

Follow the Bridge at Village

Once you reach the village cross the bridge and follow the road for 15-20 min until you reach another bridge. After crossing the bridge take the left turn and follow the tar road until you reach the end of the road.

The road will be narrow and straight, It will take around 30 min to reach the end of the tar road. You can move in 4 wheeler or 2 wheeler. Mostly 2 wheeler vehicles can go to the waterfalls place directly. There is a limited parking facility make sure you ask the local people where to park the car.

Cross the bridge take a left turn and follow the road straight without turning anywhere until the tar road ends

I would suggest you walk from the village, it will be a good experience for the beginners and the people who don’t know about this place.

After a while walking straight through the dirt road you will cross a small bridge and reach the junction along with water trail. It will show two ways left side and right side. Take the left side and move 100 meters you will find the way to the right side and turn right which will take minimum 30-40 min to reach near the place to waterfalls. The place is a flat and slippery so its little bit hard to go up.

Take left side road down to waterfalls here

Once you move straight for 30-40 min you will find a way to down left side. Take a left turn and move towards down until you reach the waterfalls.

From Negeri Sembilan to Jeram Janggut waterfalls route in Google Maps

The Beautiful Petronas Twin Towers Day And Night In Kuala Lumpur

Petronas Twin Towers were once the highest skyscrapers of the world which is in centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If you are in Kuala Lumpur don’t miss this beautiful iconic building.

The major attraction of this twin towers is world’s highest two storey skybridge between two towers at 41^st and 42^nd floor.

This beautiful building consists of 88 floors and soars to a height of 452 meters. You can even ascend to higher floor 86 to see the breath-taking views of Kuala Lumpur city from the top.

Beautiful by day and colourful at night which makes the towers more attractive if you watch over from the distance.

If shopping is your thing you won’t be disappointed while you are in Twin towers. On the bottom of the twin towers, there is big shopping mall named as Suria KLCC.

Inside the towers, you can also find Petronas art gallery, KLCC aquaria underwater, Petronas Musical concert hall, Science centre.

If you come outside the towers you can find beautifully landscaped KLCC Park at the back side of the mall which is quite nice to chill together with travellers or locals.

The KLCC park is filled with playground, jogging track and big fountains and lush greenery. You can find at the night there will be a light show with water for one to two hours of light music. They look particularly amazing and beautiful when illuminated with different colours of light at night from the park. Everyone can enjoy the show and music from different places at the park. It is also a popular romantic meeting place for couples and family. Don’t waste this chance to explore this exciting area there is much more what you can imagine. Your visit to KL would not be complete without visiting these twin towers.

If you want to view the towers and lighting at KLCC park from special view at night from the far, you can go to sky bar at Traders hotel. The area surrounding the KLCC Petronas towers is always full of traffic and people from all over the places.

To visit skybridge at 41^st, 42^ndfloor and observation deck at 86^th floor, one must need to purchase a ticket at the ticket counter in concourse level or in online through advanced booking. Either you must book early in online or you must go early morning to get the ticket which is opposite the Petronas twin towers gift shop in the lower level (concourse level). Each visitor is issued only one ticket. The queue will be sometimes more in the early morning to get the tickets even though the tickets are limited to around 800 per day due to a large number of people who want to visit the towers. They will only allow 20 people per group in sky bridge, that means they will allow 20 people for each floor which 41^st and 42^nd floor include total 40 people for 45 minutes. Tickets are time slotted so you can choose the preferred date and timings if the time slot is available in online or through a counter. The ticket prices for the skybridge and observation desk varies. You can check the price details and time slots by visiting this link here.

New year celebrations will be held 15 min very grand here in towers. you have to come so early and sit at the KLCC Park to visit the fireworks along with Twin towers. If you are standing infront of Twin towers you will be disappointed because there will be so many people that you can’t even see the fireworks while standing infront of towers.

Along with the normal views, you can also see the golden statue at Batu caves if you have binoculars from the observation deck. Visit this website for more details: www.petronastwintowers.com.my

How to reach:

• Every 5 minutes there is train LRT from KL Sentral to KLCC which passes through Pasar Seni station (china town). The KLCC LRT station is right below the Suria KLCC and twin towers so you can easily walk through from the LRT station to Petronas towers. I would recommend the train which is easy to go and takes less time to reach
• There are also GOKL (pink colour) buses which Malaysian government kept for free tourism around KL. You need to get on the red line bus to get to terminal Pekeliling to get down and hop on blue line bus which takes you to pavilion near Bukit Bintang. Get down at pavilion catch the green line bus which takes you to KLCC. I would recommend this for travellers who don’t want to spend their money on sightseeing. There is also some RapidKL buses which lead to KLCC from KL Sentral you can ask at the counter infront of KL Sentral mall.
• If you want to have a comfortable walk through Bukit Bintang area in KL, you need to reach pavilion mall inside and there is a pedestrian bridge which connects directly to Impian KLCC hotel. From there get down the elevator and pass through aquaria, you will find the tunnel leading to the KLCC towers. The walking distance is about 1.2 km long from pavilion to KLCC. The pedestrian bridge closed from 11pm.

You can come by grab or taxi, drivers will take around 10-20RM. Don’t pay more than that to any taxi driver. I won’t recommend coming by car or taxi unless you have a family with more than 3 people.

You Must Visit the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Batu Caves is one of the touristic destinations for the travellers in Kuala Lumpur. If you are visiting Kuala Lumpur this is one of the top attractions on the list. It’s one of the most touristic spots in Malaysia which consists of total 3 main caves featuring temples and Hindu shrines in a limestone hill located in Gombak district, closing a distance of 13 km from Kuala Lumpur which takes around 20 min to reach the place.

The main attraction of these caves is the gold coloured statue of Hindu god Lord Murugan at the entrance beside the steps before entering the caves. Hindu devotees gather to worship the god here, it is also one of the popular places for Hindu devotees in entire Malaysia to worship the Lord Murugan temple in Batu Caves.

The height of Murugan statue is around 42.7 metres which is one of the big statues of Hindu gods all around the world. The first sight when you reach the Batu caves will be the statue of Lord Murugan. When you climb up the steps you will enter the main cave known as cathedral cave or temple cave.

Hollow Limestone towers are from the old prehistoric era. Let’s say around 350-400 million years old with its caverns, crags and crevices. Inside the cave, you can see small shrines and small statues depicting the Hindu gods. At the end of the caves, you can see the blue sky when you look above, its like sun rays directly falling above you. Every day morning sun rays directly fall on the temple inside the cave which makes it more attractive to the visitors.

While climbing the steps you will see the way to Dark caves from the left side. It’s more of an adventure cave than the normal cave. To enter this cave you need to book the spot early .for further details of the caves click here. This cave consists of rarest million year spiders and other animals, but you won’t see much other than bats and cockroaches. While entering the cave they will give all the safety precautions. Once you enter the caves, you need to crawl like a spider and some places you will become wet because of sliding. This tour involves 2km educational tour for 30-45 minutes and adventurous tour around 3 to 4 hours. Once in a while, it’s a good experience to tour the caves getting dirty through crawling, sliding and getting wet with natural atmosphere. You can even try rock climbing at the back of the mountains.

While climbing up, there are monkeys everywhere to get your attention and take pictures of them. Even though they are not dangerous, when they see any food items or water bottles in your hand or bag, they will become aggressive and take your food by force. Make sure to take care of your belongings while you are with monkeys. Don’t smile at them sometimes they think you are threatening them. You can even find small waterfalls left side while going up to caves recently opened.

You cannot enter the caves while wearing sleeves or shorts above the knee as its a religious site they follow the tradition. You can rent sarong for 3RM (ringgits) at the entrance of the cave before climbing.

At the bottom of the caves, you can find two small caves which are Ramayana caves and cave villa. Both the caves consist of Hindu statues and art paintings in a wall describing the history of Lord Rama and other gods. Ramayana cave has an entrance fee around 5RM. It’s worth a visit once.

While going to the Ramayana caves, you will see a 15-metre tall statue of lord Anjaneya (Monkey God) and its temple. Cave villa has an entrance fee around 15RM and it includes audio tour also.

One of the festival here in Batu caves is Thaipusam which is known to be the biggest Hindu festival in Malaysia held for 2 days. Around 1 million people gather every year during the end of January and starting in February. In this festival, devotees carry the kavadi decorated with peacock feathers and flowers on their shoulders with the weight of 1-100 kgs and metal skewers hooked to their bodies which is a rare sight to see. While holding that weight they will climb up the 272 steep steps to offer their devotion to god.

Around the Batu caves, there are some climbing routes starts from the northeast area known as Damai caves. there are some local adventure companies organises abseiling and spelunking trips at this place.

Batu caves are open all the days from 6am-9pm. The best day to visit the caves is in weekday early morning. Ascending to the top of Batu caves you can even see the entire city view of Kuala Lumpur along with Petronas twin towers and KL towers.

How to reach:

• The easiest way to get to Batu caves is by KTM train in Kuala Lumpur which is connected directly from KL Sentral to Batu Caves. The train frequency from KL Sentral to Batu caves is around 20-30 minutes. Click the details of  KTM Train Schedule to check here. the cost is around RM 2.60 – RM 3.00 to reach Batu Caves.
• You can even reach by bus either from central market (Bus no: 11/11D) near to Puduraya bus station. one more place to reach through bus to Batu caves is from Titiwangsa bus terminal in Kuala Lumpur.
• The Taxi fare from anywhere in Kuala Lumpur to Batu caves is around RM 20 – RM 30. From airport to Batu caves it costs around RM 90 – RM 100 directly.