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Thaipusam

Location: Batu Caves, Selayang, Selangor
Starts: Monday 8 February
Ends: Monday 8 February

Thaipusam is the day of penance and thanksgiving for Hindu devotees. It is held in honour of Lord Muruga or Lord Subramaniam. The festival is best experienced in Kuala Lumpur where the deity's colourfully decorated chariot is led in a mass procession, and devotees carry Kavadis which are large, brightly decorated frameworks, combined with various metal hooks and skewers which are used to pierce the skin, cheeks and tongue as they move through the streets of the city.