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 08/26/2003:
245 steps the worshippers have to climb up into the Batu Caves. Once a year - at the big "Thai Pusam" festival - many thousands of worshippers gather here to chasten themselves.
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 08/25/2003:
Women who want to enter the grand new Putra Mosque have to wear cloth according to Islamic law. Fortunately these nice cloths are supplied at the entrance to give tourists like Vanessa the chance to visit this impressive building.
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 08/25/2003:
The Putra Mosque in the centre of the new planned and since two years developed government town Putra Jaya is one of the most modern mosques in the world. A 116 metres high Minaret stands next to the 65 metres high dome. It can hold 10,000 worshippers - men and women separated according to Islamic law.
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 08/24/2003:
The oldest cars at the Merdeka Landrover Parade in front of the Prime ministers Offices at Putra Jaya. Its Islamic architecture reflects the ground of the government.
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 08/24/2003:
Our car between many of its brothers and sisters! Landrover Defenders as far as you can see ... ours is for sure not the oldest one at the Merdeka Landrover Parade from Kuala Lumpur to Putra Jaya, but the only one with left-hand-drive!
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 08/24/2003:
Two of the oldest models: these two fire-fighter cars were amongst the jewels of the Merdeka Landrover Parade.
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 08/19/2003:
The Porta Santiago is the only part left standing of a big fortification built by the Portuguese. The British feared it might be used against them and destroyed in 1810 everything of it except this gate.
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 08/19/2003:
The Istana Sultana is e reconstruction of the palace where Sultan Mansur Shah lived in the 15th century. It was rebuilt according to the old plans completely out of Malaysian wood. This impressive building was built without the use of a single nail!
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