Sun 11th November - Deepavali festival

Sun 11th November Went down to KL Sentral to check out the SYE buses for tomorrows trip to KLCC. It would appear they are every half hour approx and KL sentral to KLCC takes arounf 1 hour 15mins. On my way there I came across a mass celebration of the Hindu festival Deepavali (festival of light) the idea is that this festival brings together the three communities Hindus, Malays and Chinese. There was music and dance on a number of stages and free Indian food roti, rice and curry. Some of the performances were really good. One Indian dance troop in particular had fantastic costumes and a nice trick where the female lead sat on a large double up rope supported by the cast of men. Unfortunately the rain came down really heavy and the PA was deemed too dangerous to use, I think. The also deputy Prime Minister turned up so there was lots of fuss for that.