startled cat: Careful what you wish for!

Penultimate day of the Asian tour, and we spent it in Kuala Lumpur.

So without breakfast, we went straight to the KL Sentral Station to catch a train to the Batu Caves which is one of the main attractions in the city.

The train is the cheapest and fastest way to the caves @ RM1.00 and RM2.00 for the return ticket! No need to go through traffic nor charter a cab nor join a bunch of weird people in a group tour!

We got there hassle free!

This huge image of the Hindu deity Hanuman greets you at the gate!

Sri does very beautiful henna tattoos!

So we got identical ones! Neat!

Watch out for the droppings!

The 140ft world's tallest Murugan statue guards the stairway to the sacred grounds!

Now that's a 100m climb!

One of the bazillion monkeys loitering the area, watch your hair!

The Cathedral or Temple Cave.

Oh no! ETS' hasang was blood red again! Dark? Cave? It didn't matter that we had to pay for a guided tour for around RM40 each.

This is because there was a flash. Without it, it was complete darkness in this part! We were told that snakes of all sizes inhabit the cave. Wow, thanks, I feel so much better now!

And ETS was enjoying every minute of it. It was a very cross cultural interaction... between them!

Until the she opened her mouth a little wider!
ETS: I love it, this is the kind of stuff I live for! Blah! Blah! Blah!
Guide: Oh yeah? There are a lot of other caves here you should check out!
ETS: Really! Great! Because when I was browsing on the net for interesting things to see or do in Malaysia, I FOUND NOTHING!
Me: (after ten back flips) We're so dead!

Is this our escape route? I swear that tour guide could have left us for dead there and nobody would ever know!

So happy to get out of there and made it to our brunch at McDonald's KL Sentral!

By this time, my and ETS's energy was waning. Nothing left to see in KL but the Petronas Towers. Not quite of an exclamation mark to end this wonderful journey with my best bud!

Until we saw a situation brewing outside as the train passed by...

and knew something was wrong when our train was stopped at the Masjid Jamek station and the guards were screaming at us, almost ready to drag us out of the subway station!
ETS: A, don't go out, don't go out! We are going to die!!!
Me: If they threw a dynamite in here, we're toast! There's nowhere to go, we have better chances outside!

Oh no, she's having a heart attack!

The protesters' line, and they were really loud!

The police line!

But we kept clicking away while pissing our pants!

We almost got arrested for asking where the Merdeka Square is. Apparently, that's where the protesters were converging. Good thing our accent gave us away as tourists!

So we had to walk to the only train line operating, the monorail. All other lines were suspended!

Ouch! LOL!

We're such danger magnets, there's another group right in front of our hotel! We were praying it wouldn't also cancel flights or we're stuck indefinitely!

According to the guy we were able to talk to, they were protesting against government corruption and election fraud! Ah, okay, we eat that for breakfast in the Philippines!