Kuala Lampur - 5/7/2026

Today we docked in Kuala Lampur Malaysia, and we had a tour scheduled that left fairly early in the morning. Our first stop was The Batu Caves which is the iconic temple in Kuala Lumpur featuring 272 vibrant, rainbow-colored concrete steps leading up to a massive Hindu limestone cave shrine. Located just north of Kuala Lumpur, this popular site is guarded by a massive 42.7-meter (140 ft) golden statue of Lord Murugan and offers a challenging climb

We climbed the stairs to the temple in the cave fairly easily. The caves were originally used as a shelter area for indigenous people, and then Chinese settlers started to harves bird and bat guano for fertilizer. Eventually a trader started to promote the cave as a place of Hindu worship and a Hindu temple dedicated to lord Murugan was completed in 1891. Following the completion of the temple an annual celebration draws visitors to the site, in current times, up to 1 million people will travel to the caves on that day. It was crowded, and we couldn't imagine how 1 million people could fit here.

Stairs to the Batu Caves

Stairs to the Batu Caves looking down

Inside the caves

Baru Caves

Batu Caves

Batu caves

Temple area

Temple area

Temple area

Batu Caves

Batu Caves

Temple area

We felt like the temple areas looked fairly commercial compared to the Buddhist temples that we had seen in Thailand. We headed back down to the bottom of the stairs.

Statue of Lord Murugan from the stairs coming down

Looking down from the top

Statue of Lord Murugan

Batu Cave staircase

Our guide warned us about the monkeys who can be agressive if you look them in the eye, or can take food or packages from you, but we didn't have any issues.

Monkey at Batu caves

After the Batu Cave we headed to a Pewter factory, a stop that we expected to be a sales stop but it was actually interactive and fun. We were each given a flat pewter circle that we were taught how to pound into a bowl, and that we could engrave on the bottom with our names, Conrad engraved Baylor's name on the bottom.

Conrad at the Pewter factory

Our tour group at the Pewter factory

We then toured a museum and the factory before being offered pewter items for sale.

Pewter Museum

The Petronas towers, a famous Kuala Lampur landmark. We would viist the actual buildings later but these were made from pewter.

Pewter factory

Pewter factory

ourside of the Pewter factory

Next we headed back towards our ship but with a stop at the Petronas Towers

The Petronas Twin Towers are iconic 88-story, 451.9-meter (1,483 ft) skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, recognized as the world's tallest twin towers and a premier landmark.

Petronas

We got back to the ship around 4, having had no lunch we made it to the pool grill just before they closed and had hamburgers. They were great about serving the whole bus just before closing time. We didfind it a bit odd that a 7 hour excurstion would be planned with no stop for lunch but we made it work and still went to dinner later.