Kek Lok Si Temple Night Visit

The Kek Lok Si temple at night is just as beautiful as it is during the day. I was up at the hill paying a visit to the well-known Kek Lok Si temple during Chinese New Year celebration. As Chinese New Year lasts 15 days, the visiting hours of the temple is extended to mid-night throughout the 15 days. I think it’s being done this way every year. Therefore, by taking advantage of the extended visiting hours, I got off early from my work and headed straight to the Kek Lok Si temple located in Air Itam as early as I could so that I won’t miss anything. After going thru the heavy traffic snarl, as you know, it’s very crowded in the road especially at this time of the year, I managed to reach there at around 8pm.

I drove all the way up to the temple and found a parking lot. As it was still early, there were still not a lot of people and parking spaces were still plenty. For your information, the well known stairways leading up the hill to the temple is closed at night. Therefore, you can either park your vehicle at the foot of the hill or drive all the way up the hill. The road leading to the temple is quite narrow and it requires some skills especially when there is a car coming from  the opposite way. Anyway, I don’t suggest you to park your car at the foot of the hill and walk all the way up as the distance is quite far and there were some stray dogs along the road.

A beautiful night view of the Kek Lok Si
temple.

The night view of the temple is just amazing with all the lights turned on. You can basically see the temple even before you reach the hill. There were tons of avid photographers taking advantage of the situation snapping their cameras to capture the best possible views. I was one of them actually. During normal day, the visiting hours last till 6pm only and the decorations and lights seen during Chinese New Year are not normally done during normal days. One thing which I regretted not doing was taking the tramp to go up to the highest point of the temple where the Goddess of Mercy (Kuan Ying in mandarin) amidst a garden pond lies. Anyway, this section of the temple is newly constructed and the construction is still in progress. I think I will come to this place again next year. Hopefully the section where it’s still in construction now will be completed by then.

For more pictures of Kek Lok Si temple, please visit the following flickr photostream.

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