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Road trip to Melaka, Malaysia
8:30am bus, reclining seats - think Joey from Friends (how you doin'?) but with a funky floral pattern Omg squat toilet! Tackled it ok, husband then informs me there are western toilets too :-/ So long singapore Containers piled like giants Jenga Border crossing Bus Border crossing Nat King Cole Chocolate biscuit Nina Simone Palm tree after palm tree, not sure what they harvest (I should be a horticulturalist) Oasis Baby its cold outside Melaka 163km Sudden ...
Back In Melaka Again
... a day after me. He was doing a few months travelling as part of a gap year. The day went far too quickly, however in the evening I was struck with a bit of a worry. Reading abit more deeply into the smallprint of the Indonesian Visa I discovered that they counted the days you were in the country starting from the moment you enter. This meant what you would normally count as your first day would infact be your second. As I had planned my time ...
Cracking Malacca
... very obliging. He checks us in to his best room, a huge space with a super king-sized bed, air-con, a big wetroom and a lounge annex with ceiling fan.
The hostel is a confusing maze of corridors set over three floors but when you get your bearings there is a large rooftop garden to lose yourself in, with a good view over the old city. As it is late we eat in the Chinese street restaurant outside and save our sightseeing for tomorrow.
Malacca is ...
Multicultural Melaka
... displays, street parades and the like. On my last night in Melaka - the end of the first week of Chinese New Year - fireworks were sounding all night, but every time I got the camera out they would stop. Fortuitously, however, some fireworks began cracking right above Jalan-Jalan's backyard around midnight.
Melaka, like the rest of Malaysia, is a melting pot of Chinese Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, ...
Melaka
... we might have left out in early Malaysian blogs - In general, from what we can the Malaysians are a kind of a "soft" race of people, very friendly and stuff, but strike me as being a bit lazy and they LOVE their creature comforts. There's a huge amount of them overweight, and they kind of just mope round the place, stuffing ice cream and whatever into them. (That's an awful generalisation - but you get the gist)
The next day was much of the same, bit of ...