From Kuala Lumpur's huge Puduraya bus station, I got a bus to Melaka, a 2,5 hour trip. Melaka, or Malacca, is becoming a modern city, but the houses and streets at the heart of the town are still like they were a few hundred years ago, when the Portuguese, Dutch and the British colonised it. Also, the Chinese have put their mark on this town. I had a walk through most of the historical streets and got to see the sights. The main square consists of many Dutch colonial style houses and there is the famous "Stadthuys", or City Hall, which is now a museum about Malaccan history. After that, I went up the hill where (small) parts of an old Portuguese fort still remain and on the top there are the remains of the British
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