As I mentioned before, there were monkeys along the staircase going up Batu Caves.  The mother monkey was catching fleas on the baby monkey’s hair.  The motherly love can be seen and this is another evident to prove that animals also have the feeling of love.

The baby monkey has stored some food in its mouth.  Monkeys can store a lot of food in their mouth, and they will eat the food slowly later.

This was another mother monkey.

Look carefully, the baby monkey was hugging the mother monkey, and the mother monkey carried the baby monkey everywhere she went.  They shared food too.  Look at them, they are eating coconut.

A shy monkey.

This was the monkey that took away the peanuts from a foreigner visitor’s hand, and that girl was shocked.

A monkey eating bananas.  It held the rest of the bananas with its legs.

This was the greedy monkey that put a lot of food in its mouth.

 This monkey was enjoying the potato chips.

“Wow… food!!!”, said the monkey and the next second, it jumped towards the food.

Someone fed the monkey with kacang putih (a type of pea), and made the staircase dirty.  There is nothing wrong in feeding the monkey, but there is a better way to do that in order to make sure that the cleanliness and tidiness of this famous tourist spot are well kept.  :)

Again until here, I end this series of posts of our visit to Batu Caves, and summarized all the posts as follow:-

1.  Visited Batu Caves, KL
2.  KL Batu Caves - Part 2 - The Staircase
3.  KL Batu Caves - Part 3 - In the Cave
4.  KL Batu Caves - Part 4 - Up Again
5.  KL Batu Caves - Part 5 - Limestone
6.  KL Batu Caves - Part 6 - The Monkeys (this post)

I hope I can receive more comments from all my dearest readers, and hope you enjoy.  :)

Look at the sun ray.  This is the part I like the most.  It is because there are holes on the ceiling of the cave.

Another sun ray.

Look at the limestone.  For thousands years, they have formed into speleothem.

A speleothem (from the Greek for “cave deposit“), commonly known as a cave formation, is a secondary mineral deposit formed in a cave. Speleothems are typically formed in limestone or dolostone solutional caves.  - [according to Wikipedia].

Speleothems take various forms, depending on whether the water drips, seeps, condenses, flows, or ponds.  Let me list out the most common types of speleothem.

1.  Stalactites that are pointed pendants hanging from the cave ceiling, from which they grow.

2.  Stalagmites that are the “ground-up” counterparts of stalactites, often blunt mounds.

3.  Columns result when stalactites and stalagmites meet or when stalactites reach the floor of the cave

*  The above are catogorized under dripstone.

4.  Flowstone is sheetlike and found on cave floors and walls.

Another window on the roof.

The shape of this speleothem is special.

On the upper floor, the beautiful huge rock was painted in 3 colours - Red, Yellow and Green.

Look at their shapes, the mother nature has been doing excellent carving since million years back.  At each stage, it exhibits their unique shapes of the natural elements.

If I am not mistaken, this is the flowstone.

The beautiful moss has grown on the rock.

And there are rocks everywhere.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of the limestone.

The highest level of the cave is roofless.  This is the biggest hole in the cave that allow everyone to see the sky and allow the rain to flush into the cave.  This is also the deepest part of the cave that is accessible by visitors.

Although this space is quite wide and can accommodate quite a lot of visitors, it is surrounded by the 3 sides of rock wall with some green natural plants on it.  There is no way to exit except the staircase.  I wonder if there are any ways to climb up the rocks and there may be a way to go down the hill using other routes.

The main attraction for the believers is the structure that was built here.  There is a small room at the rear side of this structure.

There are two statues standing beside the door, and quite a number of small lights offered by the believers.  We saw their leader read some mantra and do some religious activities there.

On top of this room, there are a lot of small deities statues on the roof.

On the other side of this area, there are also statues next to the rock wall.

Before going down the “internal” staircase, I saw a foreigner setting up his tripod to take the photo of the cave from “upper floor”.  He left after a short while, and it was my turn now.

It was not easy to take the photo there without using a tripod.  It was too dark in the cave.  Again, I put my camera on the railing (use it as a tripod) and use the shutter speed of 1/4 seconds.  Luckily the photo is still clear.  Thanks to the image stabilizer feature in my camera.  For your information, I have used ISO 200.

SiewPeng and Colin in Batu Caves.

Somewhere there, we saw the coconut shells.  The believers might have used the coconut water as the offering to their deities.

We walked down the staircase and took more photos of the limestone.  Stay tuned!