Travelman in Malaysia: A trip to Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur

The group of four new friends quickly grew into seven and I hadn't even finished my morning coffee. Svenya was late getting up, more people decided to join us while we waited for her in the common area. We went to the Batu Caves, it was free and it was awesome. There were seven of us, we ordered two Ubers. It cost us four ringgits each (thirty cents to the dollar).

This statue of the Hindu deity Murugan is 42.7 meters high (140 ft.)

Synne had to rent a wrap because women had to be appropriately dressed with legs covered...

There were many steps to get up into the Temple.

Javier said it was one thousand... Javier exaggerated. I Wikipediaed the place; there are 272 steps. Not bad, at least we weren't carrying sandbags on our our heads....

The top of steps and entrance to the cave temple. I wasn't out of breath but I was covered in sweat, as usual, it was hot outside. ("It's hot outside" is literally the wifi password at the hostel).

The curators of the temple are building a structure inside the cave. This pile of bricks is outside the cave...

These bricks need to get inside the cave, and these brick ain't gonna move themselves. So, brilliantly, the workers hand you a brick to carry inside. Nothing's really free...

...I dropped my brick going down the steps and broke it. For a moment I worried if I would be castigated for it. Maybe they'd make me turn around and get another brick, maybe they'd kick me out, maybe they'd arrest me and send me to a Turkish prison. I don't know why they'd send me to a Turkish prison when I'm in Malaysia, but you never know, I don't know the laws here, anything could happen. I'd only broken a corner chunk of it off, I figured I could salvage it and keep going. I'd risk it.

I was fine, I didn't get sent to prison. I didn't even get a stink eye thrown my way. No one noticed. I just had to put the brick on that stack of bricks next to the structure they were building (you can see it in the center of the pic)...