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Published: April 28th 2008
Following a delay to my flight from Sydney, I arrived in Singapore in the middle of the night. However, the only real setback was a hefty taxi fare to reach my hostel, where I soon located my school friends James and Chris, who would be my travelling companions for the next ten weeks. Since J&C had been in Singapore for over a week already I was quite happy to do a whirlwind tour of the city and move on. We spent the two days I had here wandering the city's various regions on foot. The heat and humidity proved draining, and we spent much of our time escaping to air-conditioned cafes to enjoy a glass of fresh juice or a milo ice.
In Chinatown I picked up a new gadget for my camera - a front-loaded wide-angle converter which also offered macro functionality. Although I had originally considered buying a wide angle lens and a macro lens, this alternative was cheaper and more convenient. To earn a good deal on the purchase I needed to haggle - unfortuantely I broke the golden rule of haggling for an item whose value I had no idea. It turns out that the initial
Discovery Cafe
Some great live music just as the monsoon rains hit us in Melaka.offer was deceptively high, so that in the end I overpaid. Still, this new bit of kit should prove useful for the rest of my trip.
From Singapore we took a bus into Malaysia, heading for the ancient trading powerhouse of Melaka. Despite its reputation as a historical highlight of Malaysia, there were surprisingly few backpackers or tourists in evidence. In fact we weren't really blown away by the city's sights. Our best experience was culinerary - a restaurant which specialised in a kind of satay fondue, a bubbling vat of this Malaysian sauce in which skewers of unidentified meat could be cooked. Great fun, incredibly cheap and pretty tasty too.
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