19-06-2018 Bong & His Malacca Trip - Part 3: Not Typical Tourist Sight-seeing

For the three nights at Malacca,

We were staying at this Hotel Puri Melaka...

The room is comfortable,

and the price is low.

Most importantly,

it is located right beside Jonker Street!

The breakfast is great as well,

so it is recommended 

to take the package inclusive of breakfast buffet.

Eating their very nice breakfast

at the courtyard

is probably the best thing

about this hotel!

Besides that,

the surrounding of the whole hotel

is just fantastic...

It makes you feel like

you have walked in

to another era!

Right opposite Hotel Puri Melaka

is this Chee Ancestral Home.

Google says it is a museum...

For the second day,

after having big portion of breakfast,

we started our 'not typical tourist' sight-seeing...

We used another road,

Jalan Tokong  Jalan Hang Kasturi

just to see more of Malacca city.

From street arts to Malacca river,

the city is just simply beautiful!

With the guidance from Google Map,

we walked through these small streets at

this residential area...

Our destination,

Hang Li Poh's well and Bukit China

according to Google Map,

are classified as tourist landmark.

But when we actually reached there,

it was only lots of chinese tourists! 

Lol!

I took a few pictures

and we rested for a bit...

Then we just looked for some other places

to continue our 'not typical tourist' sight-seeing.

To be continued....

Xoxo

-Bong-

13-06-2018 Bong & His Summer Update 1 (Deilig vær)

The weather has been 'too nice' lately...

And honestly,

I don't think

it is that nice anymore when

it is so hot until we can't even sit outside

at our rooftop.

But today,

just around 20 degrees,

a bit windy and cloudy...

That's a real deilig (means delicious in noreegian)

weather for a Malaysian like me!

09-06-2018 Bong & His Malacca Trip - Part 2: The Typical Tourist Tour in Malacca

We walked towards

St. Paul Church...

which is ruins of 

a stored church with tombstones...

As we were getting higher,

we could see nicer view of Malacca city...

It was humid and warm,

and it wasn't as low as we though;

so the moment we reached there,

it was like we just had exercised!

Part of the church actually

did crack up

when we was there!

Luckily no one got hit!

Yeay yea

There is a well 

BUT it is NOT a WISHING WELL!

Guess people just throw money into a well

whenever they see a well!

We used another pathway

to walk down...

which lead us to A Famosa!

It was coincidence that they had this

cycling event on that day.

So it was crowded....

We walked into shopping malls

at Dataran Merdeka

just for some aircon,

and of course some necessary shopping

and small break for our legs too!

After having small rest

with the coffee and cake,

we continued the sight-seeing...

At Taman Merdeka,

they have old planes and train

which they turned into souvenir stores

and exhibition. 

From Dataran Merdeka

to Maritim Museum,

we walked and walked...

until we came to 

the Malacca river again...

Passing Bastion Middleburg,

then the bridge,

then the Hard Rock shop for Eirik to buy his Hard Rock t-shirt,

then back to Jonker Street again...

The sky was getting cloudy

and grey.

We were kinda lucky to reach

kinda near to our hotel

when the rain started to pour!

After the rain stopped,

I decided to go to the nearest laundry

(based on google map)

to get our clothes washed.

The nearest one was close so I had to go somewhere else!

Luckily not too far from the closest one,

I managed to find this self-service laundry.

In the evening,

I decided to have simple dinner

at Jonker Street...

since we would be spending the rest of the night there anyway.

The main eating spot,

with some tables and chairs

is right beside Guang Fu Kong temple. 

It was Sunday night

at Jonker Street,

so the night ended actually pretty early.

Our last agenda

was some drinking at The Irish Harp...

That's it and Good Night!

XOXO

-Bong-