Thaipusam Festival Kuala Lumpur

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The Thaipusam Festival is one of the largest and most extravagant Hindu festivals in Asia celebrated by followers worldwide. Each year, millions of devotees flock to the sacred site of The Batu Caves in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur to offer extravagant gestures of penance to Hindu Deity, Lord Murugan, son of Shiva.

For onlookers, the festival is an incredible spectacle to witness as participants perform incredible feats of devotion. Feats including the piercing the body and face with skewers, dragging chariots with hooks attached to the skin and the carrying of huge metal frames (known as kavadis) attached to the body. Some devotees become entranced, entering meditative states during the procession, believed to purge them of their sins.

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