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Travel Blogs from Melaka
You say malacca, i say melaka
we rode up to Malacca from Singapore on the bus this morning, a 3.5 hour ride. we expected a very run down malaysia, but instead find that the government here is investing boatloads of money in sprucing up the place and promoting tourism to everyone around the world. the people are incredibly friendly and hospitable. it was that way in singapore …
Melaka where the streets have no pavements
Getting to Melaka was very easy in-spite of the all horror stories we had been reading about... We caught one bus from Singapore to Melaka, walked straight through customs (no delay), had a bite to eat at a bus stop then arrived into Melaka about 3pm that afternoon (about 4 hours worth). We were convinced by the bus driver to pay him to drop us off …
History lessons in Malacca
Together with Georgetown, Malacca is one of the 2 historical cities in Malaysia that has been listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. The city was the center of the Malay world in the 15th and the 16th century (after the Malays moved over from Sumatra, Indonesia) before it was ruled by subsequently the Portuguese, Dutch and British. Nowadays, …
Heeren House, Malacca, Malaysia
De busreis naar Malacca verliep soepeltjes. Ernst had het in het begin vrij snel gehad met braaf zitten en begon te keten: flirten met medepassagiers, mamma in het gezicht kriebelen (lees: slaan/knijpen) en lekker protesteren (lees: hard schreeuwen). Na een uurtje sliepen beide heren echter en het vervolg was dus heel relaxed vervolg cvan de reis …
Melaka
... Nonyas (Straits born Chinese) and it's supposed to be great. Asri and Lin Lin (our guesthouse owners) really raved about this one place that is great for chicken rice. It's so popular that it often has queues around the block so we headed there for 11.30 and sampled the delightful meal. After our fill we headed over to the town square which still has a very Dutch feel about it. We went into the Malaysian Youth Museum and checked out the art gallery as well before taking a ...