Blogs from Melaka, Malaysia, Asia - page 6

One of my favorite place to spend a weekend is Malacca or Melaka due to it's quite near and easy to access via highway and normal roads...the distance is around 142km from Kuala Lumpur. There are few places IMHO are very attractive and peaceful such as Kuala Linggi, Kuala Sungai Baru and 'happening' such as Bandaraya Melaka which has various attractions in terms of historical, cultural and social activities. I would like to share some photos which I've taken during my Melaka trip some time ago since a picture would tell a thousand words.. Surely in my photos you are wondering why there are so many Sungai, Kampung and Kuala.. actually 'sungai' means river, 'kampung' means village and 'kuala' means the mouth of a river.. Please also visit my page at www.facebook.com/LetsGOAnywhere... read more

I have now decided to write this blog as our diary as writing both is proving too demanding and too time consuming. The entries will record our trip, experiences and opinions. If the entries are too long, self indulgent or just boring and our friends stop reading then we'll understand. We hope they will continue to log in from time to time and send the occasional message. Thursday 23rd Up at 5.45 to catch the local bus to the bus station for our coach connection. Soon through the border into Malaysia and the scenery soon changes to magnificent trees lining the road on both sides for as far as you can see. The landscape is beautiful. Spend my time alternating between sleeping and listening to my MP3 player until Christine digs me in the ribs to ... read more

Malacca or Melaka however u wish to spell it is our first stop In Malaysia so were both pretty excited to see what it has to offer, after we arrived In one piece (just about ) at our new hostel we settled in, the hostel is pretty cool very minimalist which I love and on a quite back road just off the main drag. We arrived on a Sunday and the main attraction in malacca is the weekend market so we were just in time, so that evening we headed down to the market and decided to start at the food end as we where both starving from a day of traveling. There where loads of food stalls lining the road and all the food looked amazing we just weren't sure what any of it was ... read more

After catching an early bus that we had booked on-line paid for by Paypal and had delivered by SMS to our Singtel phone (very technologically competent, I know), we caught a bus and then the metro to the coach stop. After a mad dash due to missing the first bus from Farrah's by the skin of our teeth, we got on the KPB Bus headed for Malaysia! The bus had huge reclining seats and we happily whiled away the journey listening to Friday Night Comedy from the BBC aka the News Quiz. I do like Sandy Toksvig, I must say. I had booked us into Tony's Guesthouse in Malacca (or Melaka depending on which country you come from), through HostelBookers which came with the added benefit of some fairly good walking directions from the memorial clock ... read more

Maybe it’s the heaviness of the wood, the solidness of the brass. Perhaps it’s the feel of the glass in your hand, the smoke of the mirror or the muffled corner conversations that you can only hear the good parts of. Perhaps it’s the smell of the liquor itself, faintly sweet, or the salty sea breeze that floats casually through the curtained window somewhere near the door. Perhaps it’s the way the bar stool fits you just right, shaped by some chair artist fifty years ago when they knew how to build them right. Perhaps it’s the light cast by the globed lamps, mounted correctly on the wall next to the mirror behind the bar so the light is reflected from the smoky glass and doesn’t hit you straight in the face or maybe it’s the ... read more