Limestone Cave Temple Complex

Batu Caves

Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia

People go to climb the 272 rainbow colored steps past a 43 meter gold Murugan statue into a natural limestone cave temple that is one of the most important Hindu shrines outside India and the main pilgrimage site for Thaipusam.

Batu Caves

Batu Caves Photo by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Re-fetched en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Caves fresh this run and it loaded cleanly. Confirmed on page: location "about 13 km north of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur," district Gombak, Selangor, coordinates 3°14'15"N 101°41'02"E (matches 3.2374, 101.6839), and "In 1940, 272 concrete steps were constructed... which…

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