MALAYSIA | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [247] | View Larger Image
A cacophony of drums and horns, chanting and singing and a thousand conversations in foreign tongues. The shadows from a thousand lights and raised torches. The smoke from charcoal fires, braziers and cigars. The smells of incense, frying meat and vegetables and the sweat of a few hundred thousand people crammed into the area at the base of the steps to Batu Caves. This is Thaipusam!