Batu Caves & Genting Highland Day Tour: Hindu Temple Visit and Cable Car Ride
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12 Ratings
Batu Caves
Embark on a thrilling day tour to Batu Caves and Genting Highland. Explore the magnificent Hindu Temple, enjoy a cable car ride, and visit the Strawberry Leisure Farm. Book now!
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Batu Caves - The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old. Some of the cave entrances were used as shelters by the indigenous Temuan people (a tribe of Orang Asli). As early as 1860, Chinese settlers began excavating guano for fertilising their vegetable patches. However, they became famous only after the limestone hills were recorded by colonial authorities including Daly and Syers as well as American Naturalist, William Hornaday in 1878. Batu Caves was promoted as a place of worship by K. Thamboosamy Pillai, an Indian trader. He was inspired by the vel-shaped entrance of the main cave and was inspired to dedicate a temple to Lord Murugan within the caves. In 1890, Pillai, who also founded the Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur, installed the murti (consecrated statue) of Sri Murugan Swami in what is today known as the Temple Cave. Since 1892, the Thaipusam festival in the Tamil month of Thai (which falls in late January/early February) has been celebrated there. Wooden steps up to the Temple Cave were built in 1920 and have since been replaced by 272 concrete steps. Of the various cave temples that comprise the site, the largest and best known is the Temple Cave, so named because it houses several Hindu shrines beneath its high vaulted ceiling. In August 2018 the 272 steps were painted in an extraordinary colour scheme, with each set of steps painted in a different range of colours. However accusations were almost immediately made by the National Heritage Department for a breach of law requiring authorisation for renovations within 200 metres of a heritage site. The temple’s management disputed their failure to receive authorisation.
What's Included
  • Air-conditioned vehicle with English-Speaking Driver
  • Hotel Pick-up & Drop-off
  • Entrance Fee: 2-way Cable Car Ride
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional Information

Our experience English-speaking driver will pick you up at Kuala Lumpur city centre hotels / apartments and drive you for roughly about 30minutes to the Batu Caves the biggest Hindu Temple and after spending your time at the Caves temple we will straight away heading to the Genting Highland and you first stop will be the Strawberry Leisure Farm before drive you to the Awana Cabel Car Station.

End of the tour send back to your hotels / apartments.

Location
Batu Caves
Gombak
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Marty_c
Mar 16, 2024
A great experience... - A great day with a great tour. Our driver, Mohammed, was the perfect host. He was prompt, cordial, and shared lots of info about the caves and the highlands. He was always doing anything, and everything possible to make our experience fantastic. As I've mentioned...a really great tour. Thank you Mohammed!!!
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Lina_c
Oct 19, 2023
James our driver, made... - James our driver, made our day easy and It was a great experience. He was very knowledgeable, kind, and felt safe. We all had a wonderful day exploring malaysia
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731lanac
Nov 25, 2022
Excellent - We had a lovely & helpful guide Hari. We enjoyed both the Batu caves & the ride up cable car with beautiful scenery.
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Kirubakaran_v
Dec 18, 2023
Not so exciting trip with the not-so impressive value for money. - Time of pick up was perfect. Driver’s attitude is commendable and very well knowledgeable. Clean car as well. But if you ask me for the value of money, its not. Package cost is exceptionally expensive considering the duration and places which was seen. Not advisable.
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Jzbe
Jul 13, 2023
Awesome view from the top - My tour started at 8.30am prompt pick up service, my opinion it is the best time to see the caves, breathtaking view when you get to the top. No rush Its awesome inside Cable car ride up the hill was amazing, Loved Genting Highlands has everything you need😁
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Alwaleed_s
Feb 2, 2023
Great - Loved it and the driver was really nice, I would recommend it but if it was a little cheaper it will be just perfect
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Israr1870
Oct 2, 2022
Good one day trip - This is a one day trip. Can go up to genting highlands using the cable cars and can enjoy the theme parks and casino there. Can also do some shopping. There are many restaurants to enjoy variety of foods. On way back can visit Batu caves. It’s a bit difficult to climb the 250 plus steps up to the temple. The cave is not very clean and impressive
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Rawan_h
Jan 23, 2024
Batu caves and cable car - Going up the batu caves and the cable car was amazing but we were lost in the very big mall and couldn’t find the same gate we entered from to meet the driver. Then we decided to go out from any gate and call him to come pick us . I texted him and he received and read my messages so we waited in the street under rain for more than 30 minutes. I tried to reach him several times but he lost connection so we went back to the mall and tried to find that gate again suddenly he called us and didn’t sound helpful at all! He just waited at the same point he dropped us while we were lost in the mall! After about 1 more hour being lost we finally found our way out while he could had picked us up in 5 minutes only!!!! We were very upset!!!!
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Clara_b
Oct 1, 2023
Worst trip ever - Worst trip ive ever been on. The taxi smelt awful, the taxi driver had a bottle of urine in the front footwell, it was disgusting. The smell made us all feel sick. His chair was also broken, it was leaning into me where I sat in the back , every time he went over a bump I worried it was going to fully break and crush my legs. Not a pleasant or comfortable way to spend a day.
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K3086sstodda
Mar 12, 2023
AVOID- MALAYSIAN TOURS RIYAS. This guy is a scam. - AVOID THIS TOUR COMANY- "MALAYSIAN TOURS RIYAS" He drove me from my Hotel to Batu cave. He walked to the bottom of the steps with me and then literally disappeared into the crowd of people. After a few minutes I went back to where he had parked and his car was gone. It was not only terrifying for him to have left me, I was stranded as my backpack containing all my belongings (including my wallet) were in his car. When he did show up over an hour later I asked him where he had gone said that he had been there the entire time, but when we walked to his car, it was not where it was originally parked which told me that he had been lying about being at the cave the entire time. I got my backpack from his car walked away from him. He started following and literally was argumentative / threatening before a local stopped him. I contacted TripAdvisor for a refund and the Tour Operator lied to them saying the tour had been completed. Shameful!
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