Quite a spectacular Hindu festival in Malaysia called Thaipusam, with 1.5 million people attending. Devotees carry offerings such as milk in silver pots, people are in trance-like states, often with shaved heads and painted in a saffron colour, body-piercings of spear-like rod through their mouth, skin hooks on the back of men pulling a large, decorated cart, enormous peacock feather headpieces - all walking a 12-mile procession from the city to the temple atop a hill in the Batu Caves (to be reached after you've walked up 272 steps). The festival happens every year in the Hindu month of Thai (January/February) when the full moon is out. Both a bizarre and an sight that needs to be experienced first-hand!
Hundreds of tents set up selling food, clothes, even cell-phones! Where there's a market, there will be vendor stalls.
These hooks are pierced into the skin, and this man was pulling a 7-foot elaborately-decorated cart with pillars and offerings of milk, fruit, etc.
This woman was dancing with this decorated piece, held in place on her shoulders. Most of the devotees are in bare feet during this procession.
These silver pots are filled with milk - the traditional offering.
Hundreds of tents set up selling food, clothes, even cell-phones! Where there's a market, there will be vendor stalls.
These hooks are pierced into the skin, and this man was pulling a 7-foot elaborately-decorated cart with pillars and offerings of milk, fruit, etc.
This woman was dancing with this decorated piece, held in place on her shoulders. Most of the devotees are in bare feet during this procession.
These silver pots are filled with milk - the traditional offering. 
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