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Oh, wow.
We gotta go back up there.
-No, you can. -No.
Both of us will
-No. -Come on, stop being lazy.
We gotta go up. Come on.
But that's what I said.
No, you said that I'm going and you're staying.
-No, I said I'm going. -Look at this.
He changes his story.
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Hello, welcome back to my channel.
So good to have you here.
And if you just stumbled upon this video here on YouTube,
I'm Renata, I create travel videos here.
I hope you like and I hope you stay.
We are in Penang, Malaysia,
more specifically, George Town.
And today we're visiting the largest Buddhist temple
in the entire country.
Just waiting for our Grab car to arrive.
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Well, the car can drop you right here in front of the temple.
I'm really impressed with the size of this temple.
It goes all the way up there. Can you see it?
This is Kek Lok Si Temple, the largest Buddhist temple
in the entire Malaysia.
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Renata: Shall we make a wish?
Let's make a wish.
Gordon: Booming Business.
Renata: Let's do All Things as Wish for.
This is more powerful. This includes everything.
Gordon: Booming Business.
Gordon wants Booming Business.
I want All Things as Wish for.
Especially for Gordon who asks for Booming Business.
And this is for me, All Things as Wish for.
I'll put it on at the very top, you know?
He wanted the highest point.
I'm on top, top business.
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That's the main temple, the one you see as soon as you arrive
and where we were.
And then, there's all this, the temple grounds.
Full of statues, monuments.
And I guess, other temples as well.
Wow, look at this view from here.
You can see Penang (George Town) all the way there in the back.
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The name of this temple literally means Heavenly Temple
or Temple of Paradise.
And here it really feels like you're in a really peaceful place.
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Everywhere you turn here, you discover something new and different.
Oh, I guess for there you have to pay
Man: 2 ringgit per person
Renata: Oh, okay. Is it open until what time?
Man: Until 10 p.m.
Renata: Oh, okay. Shall we go?
Gordon: It's up to you, make a choice
Renata: Yeah, let's go.
Man: Thank you very much. Renata: Thank you.
It is totally free to come here to the temple,
but to access certain areas, you have to pay a small fee.
Now, for example, we are in the pagoda area,
and it's two ringgit.
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This pagoda here has three different styles:
Chinese in the bottom,
Thai in the middle,
and Burmese at the top.
We can go up there.
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This breeze is a real bless when you come up here.
This place is so impressive, really beautiful.
No wonder this place took 40 years to be ready.
Look at the size of it.
When you come up here, you have even a better idea
of how big all this complex is.
That's where we arrived
all the way down there.
Then we walked all this here.
All this.
What about that? We need to get up there.
-Oh, it's closed. -Is it?
No, you can walk.
But we didn't
The only part we haven't been is that one up there.
All the way to the top.
There's a lift to take you up there.
And it closes at 5:30 p.m.
We arrived a little late
and we knew it would be late for that specific place,
but we chose to come at this time for one reason.
You captured everything?
-No. -No?
No, I don't capture everything.
Why not? What's missing?
I'm not that good.
Ah.
It's stuck here and it's underneath this.
Who never wears a hat... This it what happens when you do.
[laughs]
You got to learn with me.
[laughs]
Now we sit down and wait.
Oh, wow.
It's not like this all year round.
But if you come to this temple up to 30 days after Chinese New Year,
you get a bonus at night.
We gotta go back up there.
-No, you go. -No.
Both of us will...
-No. -Come on, stop being lazy.
We got to go up. Come on.
But that's what I said.
No, you said that I'm going and you're staying.
[laughs]
-I'm going. -He changes his story.
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So, what do you like most?
I don't know
Was it as expected?
Yeah, lots of lights.
[laughs]
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Do you know what's so interesting?
We already saw all this during the day and now we're seeing again at night,
because it is so beautiful, and lit like this,
it's even more impressive.
I can't believe how this place is not jam-packed with tourists.
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This is the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia,
one of the largest in the entire Southeast Asia,
and it's also a pilgrimage center for Buddhists
from all over Southeast Asia.
In fact, there's a group of monks from Thailand
who march here once or twice a year.
They come all the way from Thailand.
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Totally worth a visit.
If you're not in Penang in February or March,
it depends, you know, it depends on the lunar calendar.
It varies every year.
It is still very worth the visit here during the day at any time.
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and if you love it, subscribe to the channel,
so that we can meet again.
Those lights are so powerful, so strong that
you can see them from various parts of Penang,
even from our Airbnb.
Oh, but I got to tell you something.
Yesterday we were here filming the temple
and more parts of the temple were lit
more than what we can see today.
I didn't even realize this when we're there
There were so many lights all over.
For me, it was fine. It was amazing.
The higher parts, the one that we didn't see,
was also lit yesterday.
Luckily, we also have the beautiful images of the whole temple full of lights
and I'm putting them right here to close this video.
Enjoy.
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Look at my new hat.
Oh. [laughs]
Look at how sweaty I am
from the backpack.
It's actually 7 p.m. now.
and I'm still all this sweaty.
Doesn't it feel like Christmas?
It's too hot.
[laughs]
But this is how Christmas is in the Southern hemisphere.
Getting to feel like Christmas.
Yeah.