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Dec 4 2006, 03:40 PM
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Melaka, Malaysia
Melaka with its strangely proud history of foreign occupation and colonialism is full of culture, every building a museum. we stayed in a beautiful old melakan house with a dipping pool in the lounge room. (totally random) we spent the first day finding our way out of the massive bus station-come-shopping mall, booking into out hostel and then hitting the street. first stop highly recommended Indian restaurant. we were a little skeptical but as soon as we stepped in the door we were ordered to sit down and when no menu was forthcoming I was even more worried. Ve-ge-tar-ian we said repeatedly and then banana leaves with rice and three assorted curries turned up in front of us. next came the tray of extra tid-bits - pakoras.... Paneer! we were impressed! a lassi and weird spicy curry "tea" later we were stuffed and the bill came to all of RM12... that's about $4.50. stoked!
Then we took to the streets for real. I'm not going to embarrass myself explaining the numerous old buildings (whose-names-I-can't-remember) we saw. lets say we got bored and really hot pretty quickly and I'm ashamed to say we retreated to the shopping centre for refuge. we made the trek home and cowered in our room until the sun was safely behind the horizon. Then we made out way to the Portuguese quarter... the food tasted good... pity about the diarrhea... hmm.
day two we were skeptical ... we laid low ate at overpriced westerner oriented restaurants and took a tuk tuk to see a few sites. must admit it's pretty beautiful when you're not defying death walking along non-existent footpaths.
another sleepy afternoon passed and then we went to the movies.
I guess we didn't try hard enough to like it. sorry guys.
Ellie
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Looks like a good feed guys!
Written by greg 40 months ago