Hotel Sri Kota Melaka

... much character, very friendly staff and of course great buffet breakfast. We also tried the local treat which is pineapple tarts and they were very tasty as well. Lunch was at Heeren House (which is also a guesthouse) and we felt the it was quite expensive: 3 coffees, 1 scone and 1 sandwhich was 31.50.

We again explored Melaka on foot and discovered many historical sites such as the ...

... his remaining whiskey, which he will only find out about once he had read this blog!), but the rest of us all continued to chat, and Zen continued to give his foot massages. Later that evening Zen wanted to play a game with the most flexible person in the room. Without thinking, I got up and did my double-jointed arm routine; he automatically decided I was the person to play against. I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to join in because the game had not been explained to us, but ...

... ever come from the Hindu temple. Very hard to describe - wild saxophone riffs and bizarre drumming. Like Circus music but not. It too is amplified to fill the community, only I am sitting within 50 feet of both and in between the two competing sounds The Hindu one, I thought was just random, wild men playing Saxaphones and banging drums going to town in the ancient little square inside the temple. I asked about it and they told me it was also a type of call for ...

... geholpen door een taxichauffeur. Nog geen 10 minuten later checkten we in bij het Heeren House. Dit leuke kleinschalige guest house dankte zijn naam aan de Nederlandse versie de straatnaam: de Heerenstraat (tegenwoordig de Jalan xxx). Eigenaren Liz en Bernard (een Engelse dame, getrouwd met een heel aardige man uit Malacca zelf). De ligging was echt verbluffend: op de hoek van China town met uitzicht op het oude Nederlandse fort (met ...

... when my legs were tired and we were bored of making fun of the store's merchandise, we hit up the cinema. 'Body of Lies' this time, and it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. A night spent under wet cloth was endured, and early the next morning we awoke and set off gladly for the bus station. It is unfortunate that again our favorite place was just too hot to enjoy. We experienced it in Koh Phi Phi, and now again in Melaka, which begs the question, why is this Asia's high season?

... dostalismy sie lokalnym autobusem do centrum i znalezlismy przyjemny hotel. Popoludnie spedzilismy na zwiedzaniu miasta i drobnych zakupach. Drugiego dnia kontynuowalismy zwiedzanie odwiedzajac miedzy innymi Muzeum Morskie oraz zrekonstruowany Palac Sultana z pieknymi ogrodami.

... go up in, but it's just one of the improvements to Melaka we've seen. As well as this terrifiying tourist attraction there has been built an historical addition to the riverside- a reconstructed 17th century water mill! Woooo! I hear you say! We planned on being here until Friday, but we have found out that there is a malaysian food festival tomorrow night, and a street carnival, so with the promise of free food, it was ...

... se voit discretement, a la propreté des rues par exemple, mais pas une propreté aseptisée comme a singapour. Il flotte bien des odeurs de gingembre et d'encens, et les gargottes envahissent les trottoirs. Je suis a Malacca. Temperature parfaite, 26 degrés. 70% d'humidité, quelques grains de mousson ca et la. Il est 21h et le decallage horaire commence a me faire bien mal. Le passage de frontiere entre singapore et la malaisie s'est deroul ...

... from dinner and it was the end of the Hungry Ghost Festival. After a month of entertaining the spirits roaming the earth from hell, large bonfires of hell money and food are ignited in the streets to bribe the spirits to return to the Netherworld. Why do the spirits choose to return to hell? It's simply greed, if they take the money and run, they will be rich, but the catch is the money is only good in hell. At Eastern Heritage the fires are ...

... called Baba-Nonya, whose food can go from fish in thick gravies to not-too-sweet miniature pinapple tarts. Add a sodium induced Indonesian flair to Nonya food and you have Peranakan. Even the Portuguese haven't given up after being pushed out 400 years ago, they lay claim to their own part of the city with the fiery "devil curry" and crab specialties. And even if you were to get bored of all of this, there is ...