Hotels in Melaka - Prices and Reviews

After my quite long vacation in the Philippines, Fahmi and I decided to go historical and visited Melaka in the southernmost part of Malaysia. This place started as a trading port of Indians, Portuguese, Chinese, Malays, and others. This place also played a key role when Ferdinand Magellan, a Spanish conquestador, was looking for the spice islan...

The day started off lazily, the only ojective of the day was to get on the bus to Melaka at 2pm. My original plan was to get to know Singapore well for a few weeks but I realised that it's tiny, expensive and there is not much to do. Ricardo suggested that I join him on his trip to Malaysia before he went to Bangkok and I agreed, I did not actua...

Hello, Spent a couple of days in Melaka which is a popular stop on the tourist trail due to the diverse history that is here. The sea infront of Melaka has been an important strategic point due to the straits, and because of this Melaka has a dutch, portuguese and british past. On the first day we took a visit to some of the oldest buildings whi...

Hi all, So far Asia has been about what I thought it would be. The weather is quite steamy, about 90-95 degrees with 80% humidity. Ryan and I are drinking a ton of water but we don't have to go to the bathroom very much. The food is a little hard to get used to, for me because of spiciness and Ryan because of variety (not keen on squid, frog, fi...

Met de bus zijn we van Kuala Lumpur naar Melaka gegaan. We waren op het busstation de bus nog niet uit of we werden al aangesproken door een man die wel een goed guesthouse wist. Aangezien wij geen idee hadden waar we heen wilden of moesten hebben we even naar het verhaaltje van deze meneer geluisterd. Aangezien de prijzen meevielen hadden we be...

Friday 11th June We had a lie in and a lazy morning on first morning in Melaka because it was so hot. We eventually headed out and Simon got a haircut at an Indian Barbours who also gave him a cut throat shave and cracked his neck twice for 5RM (70p)! It seems so much hotter here than Thailand even though we are only a few hours South so we head...

Trip #2: Katie and I left for Melaka early Thurs. morning by bus and spent Thursday night and half of Friday in the city of the Portuguese, Dutch, British and Chinese. Friday afternoon we made our way to KL where we spent the night in the heart of Chinatown and then met up with TWENTY-FIVE other exchange students on Saturday morning. I have lear...

Melaka was interesting. It had rained the night before so cooler for wandering around. Laid back place full of personality and historic charm. Mum had her handbag - containing passport and credit cards - snatched by a motor scooter in KL. We filed a report at the tourist police and filled in some forms at the NZ Embassy. The thief dumped the han...