Hotel Shahbandar Melaka
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Chinatown and Cheng Hoon Teng Temple
... the visitor is treated to a very interesting fusion of three eastern religious practices all merged into one. The main interior prayer hall is by far the most ornate and decorated and is dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy but there are also altars dedicated to other deities in the main building as well. Throughout the building, as is typical of other Chinese temples that I've seen, there was a fairly large group ...
Welcome to Malaysia
... flowers, blaring out dance music. We passed an old guard tower that used to be part of the city wall. A bit further down the river we found a replica of a Portuguese ship & a huge undercover market.
After our walk we headed back to the hostel, stopping at the snack shop to buy a bag of nibbles, intending to freshen up before heading to Jonker street night market. When we got back the hostel the owner, his wife & their friend were all sat ...
Old Colonial Town
... before the heavens opened - luckily we didn’t get too wet but to be honest it was so hot that it was welcomed!!!
We got to Jusco and I asked the guy on the door how many entrances there were. 4. Sh*te. As luck would have it, Samuel was pulling up and picked us up there and then about 2 minutes before it really started bucketing it down!!
Samuel lives alone in a 3 bedroom flat (it was huge) and works for Toshiba. He has done so for the past 20 years and was stationd ...
Melaka - The Best of Malaysia
... hour, while watching two bus #17s whiz by where we previously were standing. All of this in a combination of rain, followed by steam room like heat in the late afternoon. Once we made it back to the hostel, we showered, packed, set the alarm and went to sleep for the night.
The bus trip to Singapore took about 4 hours and was basically uneventful. We stopped once on the Malaysian side of the bridge, had our passports stamped and went ...
History lessons in Malacca
... the 'Heeren House’, a beautiful traditional house, formerly used as a warehouse and later a typical Chinese coffee shop, which was situated in the middle of Chinatown, giving us plenty of opportunity to immerse ourselves in history.
Fortunately (especially considering the intense heat), most of the interesting sites are all situated close to one another, making it easy to ‘do’ Malacca in 1 day. We had 3 days ...
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