Deepavali

Deepavali or Diwali, is one of the most famous Hindu festivals, it is known as the “festival of lights” or “light overcome darkness”, that continues for 5 days starting on Dhanteras, celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna paksha (dark fortnight) of the Hindu calendar month Ashwin and ending on Bhaubeej, celebrated on second lunar day of Shukla paksha (bright fortnight) of the Hindu calendar month Kartik.

Diwali is celebrated around the world by Hindus and Indians; they consider it a holy festival and respect the traditions of this celebration. All countries that have a majority of Hindus prepare special events and programs to honor this festival.

In this festival the Hindu families are getting together and perform their traditions, cheering the victory of light and goodness over darkness and evil. For this mean they light rows of lights with lamps or candles and clean their houses to please their goddess Lakshmi and fireworks and firecrackers are burst to keep away bad spirits.

This religious festival is celebrated as national holiday in, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Fiji.

My wife and I were decided to participate in all ceremonies in Malaysia. Because the Malaysia is Multi-ethnic and also three kind of generation are living in Malaysia such as Malaysian, Chinese and Hindu but the most majority is Malaysian that their religion is Islam.

We participated in Deepavali ceremony that held in Batu Cave. I want to explain more about this place because this place is one of the interesting tourist places in Malaysia.

Batu Caves are three big caves and some small caves that located in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and near the Gombak Area in north of Kuala Lumpur, 13 Kilometers far away of city center. This Cave is the biggest temple outside the India and belongs to Morgan, one of the Indian goddess. When you go to Batu cave, the first thing that you can see is a big statue with gold color named Morgan with 42.70 meters near the stairs. If you want to see the caves, you should go up 287 stairs that built in 1921. We you go up, you can see many monkeys that play and ask people to get something.

Each year, more than 2 million Indian around the world came to Malaysia to visit the temples and enjoy their trips. They can reach to these temples by taxi, bus and LRT (Train).