Monday, May 5, 2008

malacca : a short vacation

we made a short trip to mallaca this may 3-4.

day 1
reached larkin station in johor bahru at 9.45am and buy malacca bus ticket for 10am. arrived malacca about 1.30pm. we tried to buy ticket back to singapore for tomorrow but it was sold out. need to try our luck tomorrow/sunday morning for ticket.

we enjoy our evening in malacca, started with take a breath in a "food court" in front of the big ship, visit the red christ church and the big clock, finding a hotel to stay, get fresh shower :D

after shower we walk to the tower where we can see the "whole" malacca (the straits, the church and its sites), and then try seafood in kampung portugis where we met a new friend and a local guy who cooked great seafood for us. the local guy even send us back to the china town (the place of our hotel) with his car since the bus we took to kampung portugis was the last bus operated that night! whew .. the driver drop us in china town and we continue our night with the "pasar malam" that was held along the way to our hotel.

day 2
sunday morning we went to the malaka sentral station for ticket after join sunday service in christ church (the famous red church in malacca) and got ones :p if not ... then we need to stay longer there :( next plan was tasted the famous steam chicken with rice balls behind the odbc bank. then visit the baba and nyonya museum. then continue with stadhuyst the museum where i can find the cheng ho admiral statue -just as same as the one i found in semarang sentral java, the church of st. paul which is only a four walls with no roof, and sultan of malacca palace.
the day was short, we need to reach sentral malaka station before 6.pm

i promise, later on i will be back to malacca again .. :)

deuteronomy 2:7
the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. these forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything

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