Today we actually made it to the Batu caves!! Only taken us a week! And we don't even know what the fuss is all about yet, we've been caving before and so I didn't really think it was going to be all that spesh but it was amazing!

We went to get the bus again from runmeover roundabout! Stood there around an hour again getting really annoyed, went back to the hotel, got new instructions and set of again! Finally got the right bus two hours later!

At the station things are just as stupidly overcomplicated as what they have to be, walked up and down two floors for the company train we needed, to be sent back down to ground floor for our tickets!

Anyway we finally made our train, trains here look like something from a sci-fi thriller. Clinically white and shiny chrome very modern but freezing cold air-con! They also have a women's cabin which I assume is made for the Muslim women which we didn't even realise we were sat in the whole way there! Took around 30 minutes and dropped us right outside the entrance to the caves!

Theres a hindu temple to the left as you walk through the archway. Loads of bright colours and there's children dressed up preying in front of a huge statue of the god!

Walked a little further to the cave, where here's hundreds of pigeons congregating, like a scene from home alone! 500 stairs to get to the cave! Kill me, it's like 40`c!! There's loads of monkeys here too, climbing up and down the railings so these make the walk up a bit more enjoyable! A tourist tool bunches of bananas and handed them out one by one whilst the mother monkey creeps up behind him and steals the whole bunch! Ha! Using her kids as a distraction!

Inside the cave was pretty boring It's lined with hundreds more monkeys... They're everywhere! But as you can imagine loads of tourists in an open space and lots of litter on the ground from monkey feeding distract your eye away from the impressive formations of the limestone!

So we decided on the way back to visit the Dark caves!!! It costs £8 to go in this one as you obviously need a guided tour and a flash light as its pitch black! It was 45 of the most scariest minutes of my life :(

Its swarming with bats! You can only shine your light at waist level or below, If you shine it any higher, you will frighten the bats at the top, which makes them poo on you! We were in there two minutes I kept my light down at the ground the full time and I got poo'd on! Great! It was dribbling all down my wrist and the guide wouldn't even let me go back for a tissue she said its probably just water dripping from the ceiling! Errr... Unless the water here is green and black slime that smells like prehistoric Teradactile s*** I think not! It is apparently good luck for the day though! We will see!

The second cave 'chamber' we walked to was the bats toilet! They've built a pathway around it as, the pit of s*** is 2metres deep and we will sink in if we step on it! It's crawling with cockroaches and the tiny bacteria that live in it will feed the insects which the bats then eat! They cant just have normal fruit eating bats can they?!

Pretty easy to come to terms with but then she started telling us about the snakes, blood sucking centipedes and various spiders that we will also encounter on this tour! Great! I now can't wait!

The snakes can actually slither their way up the limestone walls and stay upside down on the ceiling where they can prey on the bats! I feel like I'm actually walking through a Discovery Channel special!

The centipedes are red coloured and have longer tentacles than usual, we saw two of these just chilling on the rocks! Every time i would hear a water droplet or something move i was convinced there was a heard of these bloodsuckers on the way for me!! The guide assured us the only have a taste mainly for mainly spiders!

The spiders are so cool they collect the detrius and sand and rock, and use their webbing skills to weave together a formation to stick to the wall which they can hide underneath! It gets cooler... It is called the trap door spider as its capable of opening and closing the formation hinged to the wall so incase Any of the centipedes catch wind of them, they can attract them into there nest, leaving from the other side and closing the door behind them!
how cool is that?! Not just escaping but also killing their hunter! This cave needs more of these spiders to keep the centipedes away from me!!

We walked deeper into the 440,000,000 million year old cave where we saw all these animals and the guide gave us a science lesson on how the water constantly dropping Is forming new caves everyday and in another million years there will be even more canyons! Yawns - Boring! It was more fun in the blood sucking section!

There's pools of water that are full of freshwater but contain bacteria and flatworms, she showed us a photo of one! Looks like squid or something from Alien! She said they grow up to 3metres in length inside this cave! Then after my heart attack she told me she was joking, they're microscopic!

We had to turn out our flash lights just to check how dark it was.. I swear someone just touched my bum! :o

And then we left, me and Annie were stuck at the back, thinking half of the nocturnal cockroach-eating-centipede-trapping-spider-hunting-bat-preying-snake-devouring food chain was chasing after us!

We escaped with every crevice intact and I think the rest of the group were happy to escape Annie's screaming! So we're the bats for that matter!

We got the train back no problem and then from the station we found out it was the same fare to take the sky train home rather than the waiting for the bus! We had to walk a little further from where it drops us off at the central market but we got to see the city view from the train! It was cool! And 40p?! What's that all about! Trains here are the cheapest and the best/most modern ever!

We ate spicy rice at the food court behind our hotel again, it's £1.40 cheapest we can find in this area and tastes amazing! And it's 50p for a large sandwich bag full of iced coffee to go! We're so addicted to it but I wouldn't recommend it after 7pm! Not a carrier bag full like us anyway, we stayed up until 3am!