Valiant Hotel Melaka

Well i finally got out of bed !!!<br><br>Today i got up early and went to the bus station .. i couldnt find anyone to travel with so am still on my own. I took a bus from Singapore to Johore Bahru i had to change buses when i got to the passport part of saying goodbye to Singapore and then on to a new one .. and then change again when we got over the ...

... special effects had been added; you could see the actors swinging from wires, and you'd get the odd grey background, or people just disappearing from the screen, or hilarious grey CGI models doing stunts without added textures.<br><br>We got chatting to the British couple again, and a new English girl who'd just flown in from traveling around India for 6 months. She was called Brianie, or Briony according to Tom (both are correct spellings!!)[Tom: Brianie! Haha!], who lived in ...

... is installed for the 4? calls to prayer every day. For those of you who have been around these before you know what I mean, for others, it is LOUD. and LONG and it is overwhelming the way it fills the air. I start laughing because the same thing happened to me before - in Cairo, in the middle of my first night there and it woke me up and scared me as I had been sleeping so soundly - when I woke, I had no idea where I was or what the siren or yelling or chanting was ...

We leave this ugly town, short of money, to go in a cheapest country, with one month visa They say it is more similar to Mother India. Waiting to come back to Malaysia in few weeks. Now we are almost sure: this year, the visa fo Thailand, if you get thee by land ...

... finger. Yip he put on a show for us where he punched a hole in a green coconut with his index finger. We only saw that part after he spent about 30 minutes using Brad to make the locals laugh and buy his magical ointment! He got Brad out of the crowd (gotta love being 6ft5' among a crowd of 4 ft people) and told lots of jokes in a foreign language and pointed and laughed and threw cards at Brad! He then made Brad try and break a coconut with ...

... the end of street which we were cool with, until we realised that we were stay at no. 1 and we were at no. 100 something. Hmmm! The horror stories we were listening to was all about the north-west highway between Melaka and Singapore. Once upon a time pirates roomed it and just recently a Singaporean couple driving a Ferrari, were robbed and bashed after a high speed chase. The main advice ...

... by the Portuguese when they occupied Melaka. When we visited a pair of very good buskers was delighting some Asian tourists with local hits. The views over the town were quite good and what was left of the church (walls and some old gravestones) was quite interesting too. We descended down the other side of the hill and discovered that an old structure that we had glimpsed from the church was the Porta de Santiago, the main gate and last remaining relic of the A'Famosa ...

We go to the Chinatown part of Melaka which has some interesting shops but is only two streets and so is covered within 1/2 hour. We stop and have a coffee with me trying the Melaka variation which comes in a tea bag but tastes the same as normal coffee. Rain comes in abundance the ...

... hearing rumors that they've been superceded by a new building somewhere. KL is more of a city, and a bit more intimidating. Tonight we are having dinner some others in our group and then going to the KL towers (second highest in the world, although tourists are allowed to go up higher in these buildings than in the Petronas towers) and then on to another night market. The shopping here is unbelievable. I can't stop. Everything is very inexpensive. We've ...

... for a while in a local bar and soon got chatting to the waiter Hans, a local who told us all about the area and Malay life. Several beers later we headed off to sample some of the Nonya cuisine, with dishes using sour sauces and coconut milk. We chose a restaurant on Jalan Taman Melaka Raya near to the guesthouse where we had some excellent, if spicy, Beef Rendang amongst other dishes. Back at the guesthouse we packed up our things ready to head north the next day to Kuala Lumpur.