Blogs from Melaka City, Melaka, Malaysia, Asia - page 23

La Malaysie: Un pays bien agréable et la découverte du snorkeling Voici le lien de mes photos de la Malaysie http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15352&l=a4a8f&id=524278956 Je suis donc partie de la Birmanie le 26 septembre, jour où les manifestations sont malheureusement devenues très violentes et j’ai pu le sentir dans le taxi qui m’amenait à l’aéroport car les militaires rodaient autours de la ville avec leurs armes… J’avais espéré que cela n’allait pas trop dégénérer… Arrivée à Bangkok, j’ai donc pris directement le train pour rejoindre la frontière malaysienne car ça sera la première fois que je traverse la frontière en train au lieu du bus et surtout que je ne voulais pas passer un jour de plus à Bangkok. Le train était fort comfortable et bien desservi. Malheureusement, j’étais un peu malade (fièvre et crampe à l’estomac) et ... read more

Matkalla Kuala Lumpurin lentokentältä Singaporeen piipahdimme vanhassa hollantilais/portugalilais/kiinalais/malesialaisessa Melakan kaupungissa, joka vilisi turisteja ihan toiseen malliin Sumatraan ja Borneoon verrattuna.... read more

Our bus to Melaka left at 10am on 22nd July. It was only half-full, and we hadn't even needed to book. There was also a rule about not eating or drinking on the bus that luckily everybody seemed to ignore (it was a four and a half hour journey!) We had to go through a checkpoint on exiting Singapore, and another to enter Malaysia. The former was simple, but the latter involved the bus driver getting irate at me and Aaron because we took longer than everybody else because we hadn't been given the card that we were meant to fill in on the bus (despite having asked for one earlier). He decided we were having 'passport problems' though, obviously our own fault and nothing to do with him. We got through eventually, and carried on ... read more

Hello everyone. I'm in Melaka, Malaysia. I checked out some of the museums here and am enjoying the weekend festival they are having here. I'm going to spend a few days here before heading back to KL for the start of my journey back to Boise. Melaka is a small port city in the south. There are quite a bit of tourists from Singapore here. I guess people from Singapore get the month of June off or something. The festival is packed with street vendors and tons of people. It's a great place to get a meal for 3RM (1USD). We're staying at a place called the Sama-Sama Guesthouse, which is great. It is clean and has a cool atrium in the center of the building. There are hammocks!!! It's a nice relaxing place to sit ... read more

We had a brief moment of panic thinking we were going to miss the bus to Melaka as we left 20 minutes before our bus was due to depart. The taxi driver kept saying "oh, bus leaves at 10:30. Oh quick, quick - no time". Yes thank you we do realise that but quick might be a word but as an action it didn't really seem to be happening. Made it with about 4 minutes to spare. We arrived in Melaka and as the Lonely Planet predicted got accosted by a tout for Travellers Lodge, we had planned to stay there anyway so it wasn't too bad. It was a nice place, clean, tidy and had lots of nice amenities like a kitchen and fridge for storing food. After lunch we had to annoyingly go ... read more