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
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