Porta de Santiago Melaka

A surprisingly short and comfortable bus ride later we arrived in Melaka in southern peninsular Malaysia. We caught another bus from the central station into town and then began the walk to our guesthouse. It's a very quaint small city easy to get around and we were in an air conditioned room before we knew it! By the time that we were ready to get …

Gestern sind wir mit dem Reisebus von Singapur nach Melaka, Malaysia gereist. Wir waren genau drei Reisegäste im ganzen Bus! Nach über einer Stunde hatten wir die Grenze erreicht, es hat ein wenig Länger gedauert, weil unser supernetter Busfahrer den Weg nicht kannte. Er meinte, dass er zum ersten Mal die neue Straße in Singapur ausprobiert. …

What should you do one night in Melaka?


The night in Melaka for the first time I feel like on vacation. First, we explore the city on a walking tour and get inspired by the cultural mix. The Dutch, Portuguese and British influenced the city as colonial powers. Since Melaka was on the spice route, traders from all over the world stayed …

24 August 2006 (Thursday)
I woke up at 6.30am and prepared for the coach back to Jerantut at 7.45am. I munched on a packet of biscuit for breakfast, which I bought at the mini-mart yesterday. While waiting for the coach to arrive, I observed the sunrise for a few minutes before the sun was engulfed by the morning mist, but long enough to have a …

We arrived in Melaka late in the evening having taken the first class bus via Kuala Lumpur. With the Petronas Towers Glinting in the evening sunlight we were looking forward to our return and a closer look.

We checked in to our hostel called Number Twenty which was great, we had a shared bathroom with a private room but a great communal …

On my last day in Malaysia, I decided to take a day trip to the historical city of Malacca (Melaka) to get a glimpse of Malaysia's rich colonial past. Malacca is a little under two hours south of Kuala Lumpur and is very easily accessible via bus. Prior, I had been going back and forth on whether or not to go there and ultimately decided to go …

... a few RM into his basket. In return he gave us two rocks wrapped in ribbons, we think they are rocks from the site. Porta De Santiago a small gate house which is at the same site as St Paul's church is the last surviving gate of the A Famous fort of ...

... a revolving tower for contemporary holiday makers, there is so much history here.   We were then taken to Porta de Santiago , a fortress built by the Portuguese in 1511.  The Dutch  were destroying it when they captured Melaka until ...

... and adopted by the Dutch and British successors.  Next to the church were the ruins of part of old Portuguese fort Porta de Santiago completed with cannon and further along the Istana Ke Sultanan, an imposing dark timber palace which is a 19th ...

... the museums on the far side of Dutch Square. Finding most of the ones of interest there closed I headed instead for Porta De Santiago (Also known as A'famosa). This small ruin is the only part of the Dutch fort that still survives today, The ...

... and food (did someone say satay?). We had a wander around the town, which is coverable by foot, and checked out Porta De Santiago, which was built by the Portugese to defend the town from the Dutch, which was not successful and also the ruins of St. ...

... of St. Paul's which was built in 1521 and was the original burial place of St. Francis Xavier.  The Porta de Santiago (A'Famosa)--a fortress built by Albuquerque in 1511. The Stadthuys--the official residence of the Dutch governors, built in ...

... .  It must be the pale skin and freckles!  We then continued on down the other side of the hill to the Porta de Santiago, which was also built by the Portuguese in 1511 and served as a fortress.   After some more walking we popped back ...

... , watching the locals and tourists alike on their evening activities. As the day turned to night, I walked towards A Famosa (Porta De Santiago). It is arguably the most recognisable historical landmark of Melaka. Since it was located on a hill, it was a ...

... ... can be quite spicy!! Here was saw the Dutch town hall and residence called Stadthuys and the relic of the Portuguese fort Porta de Santiago at the foot of the Bukit St Paul (St Paul's Church) which was built be a Portuguese sea captain in 1511. ...

... taxiky. Pozustatky portugalske nadvlady jsme nasli za radnici v podobe ruin kostela Paul's Church a zbytku mestske brany Porta de Santiago. Ve ctvrti Kampong Portugis se pry nachazeji potomci portugalskych dobyvatelu, ale to nemuzeme potvrdit ani ...