Malaysia: Melaka

It was a simple mission of just hopping on a bus that took me across the border into neighbouring Malaysia. Up the coast about half between Singapore and Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpar is the town of Melaka, which was my next destination for a couple of days. Melaka has a lot of history to it, involving a lot of major empires owning it at different points in history. The Portuguese, Dutch and British have all had their own time here as it is a very significant point on the map of naval trading routes.

There seemed to be a museum of some kind on every street. The National Museum of Internal Affairs, the National Museum of Taxes, the National Museum of Young Malay Nun-Chunks Warriors. And so on. Above is on of them.

Walking round the place you could see a great of different types of architecture of foreign influence as well as domestic , particulary a huge number of various religious buildings. Ambling down just one street you would pass a number of temples, mosques and churchs. Malaysia is renowned for it's great cultural diversity, the country being made up of 3 main groups of peoples; Malays, Indians and Chinese with all of their associated religions living in relative harmony.

The town square with some Dutch touches.

Melaka was interesting but quite touristy, the locals only too happy to attempt to swindle you out of some dosh. Melaka also means something quite explicit in greek if I'm informed correctly. Thankfully the Greeks didn't name it.

Me, sat in a crazy flower covered taxi bike. Very masculine.