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BATU CAVES LORD MURUGA TEMPLE, MALAYSIA | ROUNDS TUBE

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In this 54th Video, ROUNDS TUBE describes about the BATU CAVES LORD MURUGAN TEMPLE, MALAYSIA. Batu Caves (Tamil: பத்து மலை) is a limestone hill that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word batu, meaning 'rock'. Batu Caves is also the name of a nearby town. Batu Caves in short also referred as 10th Caves or Hill for Lord. The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the indigenous Temuan people. Batu Caves was promoted as a place of worship by K. Thamboosamy Pillai, an Indian trader. He was inspired by the vel-shaped entrance of the main cave and was inspired to dedicate a temple to Lord Murugan within the caves. In 1890, Pillai, installed the murti (consecrated statue) of Sri Murugan Swami in what is today known as the Temple Cave. Since 1892, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai (which falls in late January/earl

Tour to Hotel First World and Chin Swee temple in Genting Highlands, Kua...

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In this video we can see the sight seeing places of Hotel First World and Chin Swee temple in Genting Highlands, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Genting Highland is an hour drive from Kuala Lumpur. It has a resort with theme parks and manyotels and a casino in Malaysia. The Hotel First World is a three-star hotel in Genting Highlands, Pwith 7,351 rooms and obtained Guinness World Records for the largest hotel in the world. Hotel First World is the first hotel in Southeast Asia to have Express Check-in and Check-out Kiosks or to launch E-Kiosk. The Chin Swee Caves Temple was opened during March 1994. The temple attracts many tourists from Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and China, including from Malaysia. The photos depicting the places here shown are worth to visit with family and kids. Please click the subscribe button as free to my channel  #ROUNDSTUBE  for getting videos periodically. Please click the following links for more description of each video: https://www.youtube.com/