Malacca historical trip 04: driving around

Finally we got tired and lazy and hot... So back into the car.

Stadhuys.

Malacca historical trip 03: walking around

After the breezy ride, we finally used our feet ^_^

Just a nice tree in the park

Malacca historical trip 02: Beca ^_^

After the Taming Sari tower, it was too hot to walk around so what else, beca lah!

So many colourful beca. For RM 20 they bring you to certain historical sites and allow you 5 minutes stop to take picture, total ride30 minutes. An additional RM 20 for further sites and extra 1/2 hour. Not a bad deal. Plus the folks are nice and the beca are equipped with stereo system ^_^

My beca ride was a breezy one technically and literally. The guy who pedaled it was only 16!! And boy, he looked way lighter than me...

We passed by the Malacca tree (behind that cannon), from which Malacca got its name. It's a long story cut short.

The stamp museum

Just a random pic of the road

The iconic kereta lembu @ a cart pulled by bulls

Muzium Samudera @ Maritime Museum (Replica Flor de La Mar)

TLDM museum

Malacca historical trip 01: Taming Sari Tower

I have not visit Malacca for such a long, long time since primary school (when the main event was always about visiting historical places like Malacca blah blah blah...). So I got kind of overwhelmed when I arrive at the heart of the Malacca city...

 

To make life easy, we attacked the obvious first, the infamous Taming Sari tower which offer a bird's eye view of Malacca city. Here is where we bought the tickets.

This small thing is actually 110 meters high...

The carrier.

That's Holiday Inn (tall white building) and a hotel I can't recall what.

The historical sites.

Dataran Pahlawan where Almarhum Tunku Abdul Rahman first declared our independence.

The new attraction, duck boat/ride.

During the brief 7 minutes the guide was supposed to brief us about the view but it was too noisy with people screaming they are scared of heights (WTH are you doing here then?) and babies crying and children screaming so the guide abandoned the effort. Too bad...