Tourists awed by Thaipusam festival


Photos By AMANDA LEE
Hahndl hopes the beauty of the Batu Caves temple would be preserved.

The sun had yet to rise but the grounds of the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple at Batu Caves in Gombak, Selangor were already swarming with foreign tourists on the eve of Thaipusam.

Some wanted to be there early to capture that Instagrammable moment of the sun rising behind the giant Lord Muruga statue.

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