Thaipusam Procession to Batu Caves
The festival of Thaipusam in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia begins with a parade at midnight on the eve of Thaipusam. This parade starts from the Maha Mariamman Temple in the center of Kuala Lumpur city. At the center of this procession is a deity of Lord Murugan on a chariot.
About 100,000 devotees gather in Kuala Lumpur city to walk with the chariot from Kuala Lumpur city center to Batu Caves.
Crowd comes out of the Mahamariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur following the chariot.
The Chariot.
Lord Murugan
The Tamil Aum with Vel through it is an emblem of Lord Murugan.
Kuala Lumpur metropolis is inundated by devotees of Lord Murugan
From here the chariot will traverse a distance of about 15km until it reaches the famous Batu Caves temple of Kuala Lumpur. The entire procession will take between six to ten hours to reach Batu Caves, with some devotees walking ahead of the chariot and others following slowly behind it.
Batu Caves
Thaipusam is a festival that is marked by acts of penance. Many of the thousands of devotees who join this parade will carry milk pots on their head, while some will walk the entire distance bare feet.
A devotee carrying an elaborated milk pot lower (left) while another carries the common kavadi (right).
Upon reaching the caves, devotees head to the beautifully adorned Murugan shrine, where the milk that they had devotedly carried is offered as abhishegam for a small Vel that is placed below the main Murugan deity.
Inside Nature in Batu Caves, one of the largest cave in Malaysia.
There Murugan Shrine of Batu Caves
Devotees wait in line to deliver the milk they carried with their kavadi for abishegam to Lord Murugan's Vel. Thus concludes days of spiritual observances for the betterment of ones future with the blessings of Lord Muruga.
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