Monkeys and Caves!

So this morning Colby and I took a day trip to the Batu Caves - a system of caves located a few miles outside of KL that is considered sacred ground for Hindus. As we boarded the bus this morning bound for the Caves, the first thought that entered my mind was: "How are we going to know when to get off of this bus?".

Well, it turns out that it is rather self evident, considering there is a 15 story high gold Hindu shrine that if you don't see you are seriously a blind moron. After climbing up 272 steps (yea...I counted...) we reached the main cave which had these gorgeous Hindu shrines and temples all over it. They really were truly beautiful. And as we are walking deeper into this cave, we come across TONS of monkeys. Monkeys monkeys everywhere! I won't lie, I was a bit scared of the monkeys. I mean, from far away they look cute and all but they really were everywhere, and they were hungry! Jumping up and down looking for food...eeeep!!!

In an attempt to get away from the ravishingly hungry monkeys (nahh..we were just done exploring that cave), we went next door to another cave (aptly called the Dark Cave) where we donned construction worker hats and explored! There is a reason this cave is called the Dark Cave...if you turned off your flashlight there was NO loght whatsoever coming into this cave. Like none. Zero. It was basically this huge cave, that was barely explored, which had a semi-paved pathway through it. Let's put it this way...this will go on the list of things my mom would not have liked that I was doing on this trip :) Anyways, with our guide we walked through the cave and learned all about how it was formed and all of that good stuff. Highlight of the tour: when our tourguide started talking to the 2 Russian people that were on our tour about Uzbekistan. Not such a good topic of conversation I would say... oops!