56) Melaka - Malaysia's oldest town: Photos 21 to 27

This time we planned to stay some time in Malaysia before heading to Indonesia once again. Leaving Singapore and entering Malaysia was really a piece of cake, the Malaysian immigration being far less rigorous than the Singaporean one. We soon arrived in Johor Bahru and there it did not take us long to catch a bus to Melaka. We arrived quite late in the night (around 10:30), took a taxi whose driver spoke excellent English and was a real chatterbox disclosing some interesting information like the usual taxi price to us. We feared that the place we had chosen to stay on would no longer be open at that late hour of the day, as it was not a hotel but a privately run guesthouse. But we were lucky, after ringing the bell of the Kancil Guest House for several minutes the landlady showed her friendly face. The guesthouse did not offer rooms with attached bathrooms, but the place was so clean (if Fatima did not cook, she and her husband were busy cleaning, they had no staff) and the building so charming that we were happy to have decide for this guesthouse. Set within an old Chinese ancestral home, it

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