Keenly Kuala Lumpur

Just because you’re in a bustling metropolis doesn’t mean the natural world doesn’t get a look-in. Burrowed into the hillside 13 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur, you’ll find the astonishing Batu Caves. This unique limestone cavern complex, first ‘discovered’ in the 1800s, has actually been known to the region’s indigenous people (the orang asli) for centuries. Beneath the 100-metre vaulted ceiling of the largest chamber, the Cathedral Cave, are several Hindu shrines and, most eye-cathchingly, a 43-metre statue of the Hindu war god, Lord Murugan. Every year, the caves attract thousands of pilgrims, sightseers and opportunistic macaque monkeys alike.