Blogs from Melaka City, Melaka, Malaysia, Asia - page 13

08 - 10 October When we arrived in Melaka / Malacca by bus from Mersing it was already late afternoon. We had checked the web beforehand and had already decided we wanted to stay in Chinatown, opposed to the area further down where most guesthouses are centralised. It takes a bit of searching to find something affordable in China town, but we succeeded and got a room at the Cheng Hoon hotel. Nice place, large foyer to hang out in or use wi-fi. Most evenings there were a bunch of 'old' Asian people chatting each other up in Chinglish with the usual amount of 'lah's' included. It's so funny to hear these people of around the same age (70-ish) from different parts of Asia speak this universal language that is understood by so many people in ... read more

Malaysia Wedding Style - Malacca... read more

Melaka, 3:45 am Left home 3:30 pm Sat, Param drove us to RDU. Changed planes in Houston, changed planes in LAX, EVA Air 13+ hours to Taipei, hung around there for a few hours, then 4 1/2 more to KL. Once there we had to figure out how to buy a SIM card for the GSM phone Melody bought on EBay, get some cash from the ATM (ringgets, about 3 to a dollar), clear customs (long line). After that came the harder part: find a bus to Melaka. We still don't know whether there is one, a carefully guarded secret, or not. We ended up taking the scenic route: local bus to NiLai, local bus to Seremban, then the last express bus of the day to Melaka. Finally a taxi from the bus station to the ... read more

Zajtrk je bil trodelen: najprej dragonfruit od vceraj, potem pitstop pri mamak (jaz najprej roti chanai, ker roti pisang kao no have, potem pa z Edom se tose in cez ginger teh tarik), na koncu pa se kokos pri sosedih. Matr, v taki situaciji bi imela vedno dobre sosedske odnose. Ko sem imela vse spakirano in je bil Ed nared za sluzbo (danes grejo gledat lokacijo za snemanje, t.i. reccee), me je zategnil do postaje KTM. Bye bye Ed, bye bye Kepong, sem jokcala! "Heh, you'll be back," me/se je tolazil Ed. Ves, da bom. Sla sem do KL Sentral (1,30r), tam do info pulta KTM, da poiscem mozne vlake do Kota Bharu. Odlocena sem bila, da ne grem na ekspresni nocni vlak, ker hocem videti cim vec tiste cuvene jungle railway. Ampak ta je baje ... read more

05 September 2009 - 09 September 2009 After having spent more money than we anticipated in Singapore, we got up early on Saturday morning to get a train to Melaka on Southern coast of Malaysia. We had decided that due to missing the bus because of a delay in immigration on our entry into Singapore, we would opt for getting out of the country by train (we hoped this would cause less hassle.) As it turned out, Immigration exiting the country was quite straightforward, as we exited Singaporean immigration at the train station and entered Malaysian immigration at the border. 1 hour, and after everyone on the train had cleared immigration (would have been nice if the bus could have done that on the way into Singapore!) we were back on our journey through Malaysia. As ... read more