Story and photos by LAI HOCK YEE MALACCA is the perfect stop for parents looking for an educational and fun trip for their young children. Visiting the historical places there certainly makes history lessons for primary school pupils, in particular, more interesting. Malacca, with its tourism slogan “Visit Historic Melaka Means Visit Malaysia” has to [...]
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Trishaws are usually ridden by men, so Hanna Hussein is surprised to find a gutsy woman pedalling the streets. IF the streets of Kuala Lumpur are where you can gawk at fancy, modified sports cars, you’ll go ga-ga over the beca in Malacca. The trishaws here are a riot of colours and sounds — a [...]
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By Mike Aquino A historic port town set on the narrowest point of the Malacca Strait, Melaka was once the capital of a prosperous sultanate back in the 1400s, then an entrepôt for successive European powers, before coming into its own as a modern-day Malaysian city. Today, Melaka’s history can be experienced first-hand through the [...]
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Malacca and Penang are unique in that they boast a rich colonial heritage that’s injected with local flavours, writes Teresa Yong-Leong MALACCA and George Town, Penang evoke feelings quite different from that of other states in the country. There is a certain air of history and culture that grab you the minute you enter these [...]
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古城马六甲，再熟悉不过的就是浓郁历史气息，在经过喧嚣的、错综复杂的、严酷的历史考验后，它凝聚并铸造了大马的民族精神。到古城看古建筑物、寻食尝味，或前往最受欢迎的“海上之花”博物馆参观，肯定有趣。
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Adhering the feelings of a granny’s house, The Jiong House along Jalan Kampung Pantai comes complete with its mottled faded wall paint, old cement floor, obsolete TV sets, old-fashioned sofa accompanied by the sound of a lone fan turning inside an empty living hall. Located in the heart of old Melaka, The Jiong House is [...]
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by Karen Bong THIS old world charm has over 600 years of history reflected in its buildings, mouth-watering cuisine and unique cultural heritage from centuries of Portugese, Dutch and British rule. Located on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia, about 150km from Kuala Lumpur, Melaka takes only slightly over an hour to reach overland. The [...]
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K. PRADEEP The heritage city of Melaka is a contrast to the resurgent Malaysia It was virtually a hop-in-hop-out kind of situation in Melaka, Malaysia. We had just a few hours before the sun set on this heritage city, and there was so much to see. And there was a scheduled boat cruise along the [...]
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by: Michelle Rowe From:The Australian WALKING around Malacca with Florence Tan is like visiting the Country Women’s Association with Margaret Fulton. Everywhere we go, people stop and stare, the brave hurrying over to embrace the impeccably turned-out sexagenarian, others calling out a shy “Hello, Florence” as they wave and giggle from a distance. There is [...]
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ON the tranquil grounds of the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple, Malaysia’s oldest Taoist house of worship, late afternoon visitors bowed and offered burning wands of incense to a gilded statue of the Goddess of Mercy, the deity for whom the temple was founded in the 1600s. Tourists quietly watched or focused cameras on the structure’s [...]
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