Friday, 29 November 2013

PAYYAN FAMILY MEMBERS VISIT SRI THENDAYUTHAPANI TEMPLE, BRINCHANG, CAMERON HIGHLANDS, MALAYSIA







Payyan family members visited and performed their prayers at the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple, Brinchang, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia on 26 November 2013. The photos above shows our Payyan members offering their prayers.

The Sri Thendayuthapani Temple is located at 1600 metres high in Brinchang and was built with the multihued Tamil Nadu-style sculptures created by an Indian artists, and this colourful and vivid temple is frequented by the tea picking, strawberry and vegetable farm community of Cameron Highlands.

Cameron Highlands was discovered in 1885 and consist of three districts, namely, Ringlet, Tanah Rata (the administrative centre), Brinchang (the highest point), the Bertam Valley, Kea Farm, Tringkap, Kuala Terla and Kampung Raja. Cameron Highlands have a relatively large number of Indians owning and managing tea farms, strawberry farms, vegetable farms, grapes farms and bee farms. There are a few multi-Millionaire landowners who are Indians at Cameron Highlands.

The mean annual temperature is about 18 °C (64 °F) and during the day, the temperature seldom rises above 25 °C (77 °F) while at night, it can rarely drop to as low as 9 °C (48 °F), at the higher areas and is a great tourist delight among Malaysians and foreigners.

photos taken by Prasad C.K. Kannan

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