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Bang! S**t head!!
... and also had lunch there with a beer. I decided to rampage through all the sights in Melaka all in this one day, so I set of straight away. Little India was first - I was a bit upset as a lot if places were closed. St Paul hill - a cool looking fort with a church and a graveyard. It was awesome for photos and I bought a bracelet. Next was the main Shopping Mall, where I bought 3 shirts for really cheap. Chinatown next where there were a lot of stalls setting ...
Interesting little place
... through many hands in its life as a church under the Portuegese and the Dutch, and later as an armoury under the British. Great views at the top of the hill, overlooking Malaka Straits. The Dutch also built a fort around the area and they are still excavating bits of the fort which seem to have been built over a large area of the town.
We had a fun night, dining along the riverbank and then strolling through ...
Goodbye Doughty's... hello Durian chocolate. Yuck!
... pretty open to trying most things even if I think it'll be disgusting, just to see what it is like... but both of us approached the durian chocolate with some trepidation.
If you know either of us you would know that chocolate is a staple part of our diet. Bec used to eat smarties for breakfast even, so if anything was going to allow us to enjoy durian, this would be it. Not so.
It. is. vile.
Not run of the mill vile. Proper, ...
Melaka's 'Goa' connection
... side of the highway. As we entered Melaka we were greeted by weeping willow, eucalyptus and palm trees, beautifully manicured flowerbeds and creepers which appeared to be magically woven onto the trunks of trees.
Prior to the Sultan's arrival, Melaka was a sleepy nondescript fishing village. It was founded by Parmeswara around 1400 when he discovered that it had the most strategic location in the Malacca Straits. According to ...
Melaka – Wir sehen rot
... Schwanz, wurde uns mit 2 Männern präsentiert. Na da waren wir platt. Wir glauben diese Eindrücke, die man an diesem Abend gesammelt hat, kann man in Worten gar nicht wiedergeben. Sprachlos hatten wir so gegen 3:00Uhr in der Früh wieder unser Zimmer betreten. Danke nochmal Shamu für diese schöne Nacht!
Heute steht unsere Weiterreise nach Kuala Lumpur an. Sonja haben wir gleich mitgenommen. Schweren Herzens verabschieden wir uns von Melaka & natürlich unseren ...