which is situated about 27km from Kuantan.
Among the attraction in the caves are a sleeping Buddha statue of a Thai Buddhist temple
and Shivalingam of a Hindu Temple.
A view of the Panching Hill from the Panching police station.
The reclining or sleeping Buddha statue.
Elephant and monkey bowing to Buddha.
Buddhism
This stone looks like a lady sitting on an elephant.
A Quan Yin lookalike stalagmite in the cave.
This one look like a human head.
A fish lookalike limestone.
This black patch of flowing water looks like a lady in a long gown.
The Shivalingam Temple.
It is under renovation and work is almost completed.
Lord Shivalimgam being wash.
Shiva
Shivalingam
The new stairways up offers a shorter and faster route up.
The generous ones who contributed the new stairways.
This is the old Thai Buddhist monastery,the buddhist monks have since left for home
and it is now in the hands of a local caretaker.
The entrance of the cave
A view of the entrance from inside.
Lightings in the cave.
Columns formed by joined stalactite and stalagmite in another higher cave
A view of the palm oil plantation below from the cave's view point.
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Getting there:-
It is best to have your own transport because the Panching Hill
is about 3.5 km off the main road in a palm oil plantation.
Gua Charas
Caves of Malaysia
Wow...so many interesting limestones and God figure. I gotta visit this place one day. :)
ReplyDeleteyah!You should drop by.
ReplyDeleteu r designer here..??
ReplyDeleteDo you mean the cave's temple?
ReplyDeletei am just a visitor.
look like an interestin place!
ReplyDeleteNot as glamourous as Batu Caves,
ReplyDeletenormally visitors will also go the Sg Lembing Museum.
hope me noe tis place..
ReplyDeletefrom Nikel Khor
not difficult to find,have sign board which leads to Gua Charas from town
ReplyDeleteAwesome cave. It has some similarities to Batu Cave in Kuala Lumpur.
ReplyDeleteYah,quite similar except Batu Caves is many times bigger and this one have a Buddhist temple.
ReplyDeleteEhhh, I remember this cave. I visited it when I was still at a boarding school in Kuantan long time ago. Wow, it has changed a lot. There was no statue, no lighting, no nothing back then. I think it needs a little bit of more publicity so that people would be interested to visit this wonderful cave.
ReplyDeleteYou could have visited Bukit Sagu caves then because the temples have been there for i think almost 40yrs.
ReplyDeleteYou're right the place needs some publicity.