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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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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Where does one go for all things Peranakan if not Malacca? ANIS RAMLI joins the shoppers in Jonker Street and also uncovers nonya beauty secrets from the past IT would take a rugby team’s offensive line to clear a path through the crowd that descends on Jonker Street every Saturday at dusk. Bargain hunters, serious [...]
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Malacca, Malaysia: Just when you think you’re ready to write off the Malaysian town of Malacca as a tourist trap, something wonderful and surprising happens. Susan Spano, Special to the Los Angeles Times What traveler hasn’t landed in a dreamed-of destination and found it crawling with tourists, fast-food franchises, name-brand stores and dollar-a-beer bars? The [...]
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Once a sleepy backwater, Melaka (formerly Malacca) is today one of Malaysia’s premier tourist destinations, attracting nearly nine million visitors a year, most of them domestic. Over the weekend, motorists drive in from other parts of Malaysia and across the causeway from Singapore – and in such droves that locals now avoid moving about town [...]
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At one of Malaysia’s few Unesco world heritage sites, history appears as readily as an easy smile I am trying hard not to laugh at my guide. He has been very friendly, chatting in Tamil on the bus to Malacca. He has also organized a vegetarian lunch for me, after he’s recovered from the shock [...]
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