Riviera Bay Resort Melaka

... what looked quite grand from a distance upon closer inspection resembled something pulled out of a childs box of Lego. What, however, the book fails to mention is that should it be rainy, which being the tropics is somewhat of a daily event, the whole of chinatown shuts down. Shops remain closed, shutters pulled down and locked,streets deserted, and all the atmosphere firmly tucked away in the red paper lanterns ...

... quickest coconut slicer in the whole of Asia was performing a show that night and his fast hands would pierce coconut shells before our very eyes. Sadly we never saw it. Instead, we wandered along past market stalls and their relatively reserved owners (at least compared to Thailand!) and middle-aged Chinese women doing humorous karaoke/ aerobics/ line-dancing in temple lobbies. We eventually settled for a beer at the end of the walk next to a big stage where locals were ...

... by calling WU at 7am, I managed to get money at 3pm and was able to leave for KL on Sat morning. The guys that owned the hostel I was staying in couldn't have been nicer, they gave me breakfast and lunch and told me I could stay for free for as long as I needed. I had also received an email from an American man called Buddy I met on the bus from Singapore, he was travelling on to KL with a Canadian guy called Dan, they'd met in Singapore. They emailed to ...

Our journey back through KL saw us feasting on a dirty KFC and an hour wait in a dirty smog filled, caustic bus station. The buses waited underground and the fumes had no where to go, the poor guys who worked down there sending people to the right bus have one of the worst jobs we have seen to date, certainly as far as their health is concerned. We finally make it onto a bus and spend a couple of hours resting until we reached Malaka, upon where we had to have met the ...

... j'ai tout "pettee" J'ai arracher la tablette et les deux portes ont tombees. Nous etions un peu embarrasse de la situation. Rejean a donc pris la crazy glue et a fait de son mieux pour tout remettre en place. On n'y a pas retoucher. On a aussi ete faire un tour sur le bord de l'ocean pour voir le coucher de soleil Demain nous planifions de nous rendre a Singapour. Bisouxxxxxxxxxxxx France et Rejean.

... and sample some more delights! I went to the cinema to watch Hancock and was so excited to see a film! It didn't matter if it was any good! And I had no choice but to get a box of popcorn to enjoy with it since I could smell it all the way from my guesthouse! Day 137 - This morning I decided I would go to Singpore today, rather than tommorrow, as I had seen most of the sights in Melaka and needed all the time I could get in Singapore. Before I went, I had a guided tour of ...

... the suburbs! This I found out from the Malaysian girl sat next to me, who tried her upmost in her limited English, and with the use of the map I was frantically poring over in my concern that we'd end up somewhere we didn't want to go, to explain that this "was the wrong bus, you plonker!". Once she realised my panic and noticed the sweat of concern beading my brow she kindly said "stop, stop" to me and smiling, pointed out the stop button above my head, which I pushed at the same ...

Ultimos dias en malasia, para ser exactos 2 en melaka, una ciudad portuaria disputada en la antiguedad por europeos y asiaticos. Melacca ha pasado por manos holandesas, britanicas y portuguesas, asi como japonesas. De cada uno de ellos hay los restos en esta ciudad. No se puede decir que sea fea, es mas bien bonita y colorista, pero carece un poco de mas encanto. Es una ciudad hecha para los chinos que la visitan cada anyo, y con eso ya lo he dicho todo xd. De los dos dias en ...

... to keep afloat. On arrival at the bus station I was expecting to be attacked by touts yelling about the various benefits of their guesthouses and hoards of taxi drivers yelling competing fares at me while I tried to put on a 20kg backpack in 32 degree heat. This is what the media and the guidebooks would have you believe. You could say the actual process is much less painful than going down your local Comet/Currys to buy a fridge. You're simply handed a flyer by a guy ...

... recocnized, that we forgot the food, because on the island is no possibility to get cheap food. The only way to eat, is in an luxusresort. hmmm. After a 30 minutes walk over the island to the west coast, we found some nice beaches. On the way, we waked up a huge iguna or a waran (i don't know exactly). The beach was great but the water was not clear at all. it wasn't dirty, but it was not realy to enjoy, when you don't know the things you stand ...