Renaissance Melaka

It is relatively big city - with about 800000 people, but really the bit you want to see is small, the architecture is influenced by Dutch, Portuguese and the British and it good to see the contrasts just strolling around.<br>There are Churches, Mosques, Towers, A wheel, River and a China Town Market.<br>Took a bike out here - what an absolute disaster ...

... museum next door. The ship museum was ok, it would have been good had we not known all the information about Melaka previously. Unfortunately the information in the National Museum in KL was more a lot more detailed than the Melaka museum, so we didn't learn anything new. The Maritime museum was pretty lame. I think I only stopped once to actually look/read something because there really wasn't anything of interest to see there, and it was pretty empty (both of information ...

... what it might be like because I actually never got through the whole history chapter and Janice took the book with her. So, completely blind, I pulled into Melaka a couple of days ago. Pulling in it was obvious that it is no small town. I should add that, here in Malaysia, there is quite the unique phenom going on. I don't know if it is like Short Man's Syndrome or what, but they are obsessed with quantifying everything as 'biggest'' best'', oldest, 'tallest ...

... wonderfully preserved. (Some to the point of excess, so that I felt at points as though I was in Epcott Center rather than Malaysia). Most of the tourists are Singaporeans who travel to Melaka for the delicious "Baba Nonya" cuisine, which combines elements from traditional Chinese and Malay dishes. As usual, I was particularly impressed by the desserts. My favorite was Cendol: A pile of shaved ice topped with coconut milk, palm sugar syrup, green-bean ...

... da cidade está muito bem cuidado e enfeitado (por vezes com falta de gosto), o que provavelmente está ligado ao facto da cidade ter recentemente sido elevada a património da humanidade (após 10 anos de candidaturas). Na praça principal, obviamente do periodo Holandês, ficam a antiga "Stadthuis" (Câmara Municipal em Holandês) e a Igreja de Cristo pintada de vermelho vivo, de facto um observador desprevenido poderia julgar estar na Holanda (calor à parte ...

... the two of us weighed at least double his weight. For the hour tour a small coastal breeze picked up and for a short time we were actually comfortable and cool. After our tour we walked to meet a new friend for tea. Ibrahim, a man of the mountains, from Kashmere, in India, had spoken to us on the streets the day before. After a long talk and a look at his sons store, that had many treasures from their home, he had ...

... det er en stille by med rimlige priser, men alligevel med de 'noedvendige' ting som butikker, internetcafeer og biograf. Jeg tog ned paa busstationen kl. 10, men kunne foerst komme med kl. 13 saa havde lidt tid til overs. Jeg fandt en netcafe og fik bestilt hostel i Singapore til den 24,25, men det var desvaerre ikke muligt at faa dobbeltvaerelse til under mange penge ...

... und englische Kolonie war. Daher hat die Stadt ein ganz interessante Mischung der verschiedenen Einfluesse. Es gibt zwar nur einen kleinen Fluss, aber ich fuehle mich hier aehnlich wie in Venedig. Kein Haus hat mehr als 3 Etagen, alles sehr klein und schnuckelig. Sehr sehenswert und mal eine Abwechslung finde ich.

... Malaysia. An hour or so after we set off, we had finally made it across the border and been stamped into Malaysia for 90 days. Our first stop was the industrial town of Johor Bahru, a shabby looking place with little in the way of tourist entertainment or attractions. Here we had to change buses yet again, the fourth of the day, to travel along the North-South Highway towards Melaka. Johor Bahru bus station was a busy, bustling place but we were soon spotted by a ...