Thean Hou road now concrete, no longer green

The road up to the Thean Hou temple in KL is very steep. It used to be nice and green with trees and vegetation. Then in March 2012 there were a series of landslides along that area.

After the landslides, some of the large trees were removed and the slopes just covered in the blue plastic so commonly seen on hillslopes in Malaysia.
June 2012 -

 New plastic Jan 2013 -

Mar 2013 on the road up to the temple, the vegetation has been cleared -

June 2013 work started to clear everything

 and the once green hill slopes were covered in concrete

Another green area gone.

© Liz Price

Thean Hou temple CNY 2010

I've been to the Thean Hou temple many times as it is so close to where I live. I always go at Chinese New Year to see the decorations. This year I thought they weren't as good as usual, and there were no fireworks on the eve, normally they have a great firework display. In fact there were far less fire crackers generally this year.

CNY was Feb 14. I went up to the temple on Day 6, and went in the morning hoping it wouldn't be busy as it wasn't a special day, but there was a queue of cars up the hill to the car park. And the temple itself was packed. An additional factor was the very hot sun which meant everyone was trying to keep in the shade.

Because of the crowds I didn't stay long, I just took a few photos (I already have so many) and left.

List of "deities", take your pick

Dragon

Sea of red

Washing the Maitreya Buddha

View towards KL city

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Thean Hou Temple - Cheng Beng

Thean Hou is a famous temple outside of KL in Seputeh.

Cheng Beng, also known as Qing Ming, or Bright and Clear Festival, or All Souls Day is celebrated here. All Souls Day falls on April 4 2008, and for 10 days either side of that date, Chinese will go to the cemeteries to remember their ancestors. They clean up the graves and give offerings. They also go to the temples to give offerings.

See also terrapins at Thean Hou
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