My Travel Story: Malacca a Historical City

My Travel Story: Malacca a Historical City: It was just another much awaited saturday as usual for my kids (and me too of course : p). And an outing to Restaurant Jayati for a breakfas...

Malacca a Historical City

It was just another much awaited saturday as usual for my kids (and me too of course : p). And an outing to Restaurant Jayati for a breakfast ended up a night stay in Malacca with a lot of fun.. though unplanned.

It was 9.00am when we decided for a day trip to Malacca (written Melaka in Malay), a historical city in Malaysia. Malacca located in the southern Peninsular of Malaysia and is about 2 hour distance from Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) and 45 minutes from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) when travel by car.

Among the favorite tourist spots are A Famosa, Melacca River Cruise, Mini Malaysia Cultural Park and Mini Asean, The Stadthuys, Menara Taming Sari, Portuguese Square, St Paul Church, Eye of Melaka, Zoo Melaka, Butterfly Park, Crocodile Park and many more. And the best all, it were located next to another.

We arrived at Ayer Keroh at 11.00am, visited Melaka Cultural Park (Taman Mini Malaysia & Mini Asean), a place must see. We visited all 13 full scale house model representing 13 states in Malaysia and Mini Asean where you can visit full scale replica of houses for Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam, Brunei etc. They have also cultural performance including Portuguese, Chinese, Indian and Malays dance. Something you will only find in Malacca.

We took almost half an hour to visit all the houses, phiuu.. next time wear your snicker yah.. On the exit, we spot another attractions, asteriod (better known as tahi bintang).. a something you should not missed. Tired but satisfied, we proceed to stall, where the famous Malacca cuisine served, Asam Pedas Melaka.

Malacca The Historical City (Part II)

Howdy! (Please read my Part I before read this)

Malacca's House

It was 4.00pm, and we were all completely exhausted and sweating.. a good exercise huh :). Going around is not difficult to look for hotel.. We check in at "Hotel Seri Malaysia" RM300++ for family suite.. pretty expensive for a hotel without lift service. Use staircase instead.. walk for your health dude.. 

Rumah Johor Tanah Tumpah Darahku

All-in-all, I can say the hotel is not up to the standard price of RM300++ (approx USD100++), with air conditioner that is warm, stuffy room and no welcome drink or tea and coffee. View.. nothing special except the car park. It is hard to say good thing about this hotel. The worst experience staying in this hotel was sleeping with "pijat" (bed bug) oh man.. it was 12.00am when I saw and kill one of it.. damn.. when                                                    we woke up in the morning we felt itchy all over our body     and blood just everywhere.. this tiny 'vampire' creature really suck our blood the whole night.. I manage to caught one alive and immediately call the management and show the bed bug.. we pack and check out immediately.. After almost 20 minutes with the housekeeping exec, they only agreed to offer RM50 discount for the bad experience we have.. and for sure that will be our last stay at Hotel Seri Malaysia.

Melaka River Cruise

Prior to this bed bug experience, we truly enjoy the night scenery of Melaka River Cruise an experience not to be missed.  

Lets forget about the bed bugging experience, and share the good one, you can see photo 3 of the houses (Melaka, Johor and Sarawak) above.. and Pink Buggy for the buggy ride.. for less than RM50 (approx USD15) you can enjoy driving through reserve forest (jungle tracking style) for 45 minutes.. lot of sauna and fauna to observes.. a true learning experience for my kids on the important to preserves the forest for future human life..  

Six Seater Buggy Ride

     

Malacca.. a truly historical city..