Images from Malaysia

The historic city of Malacca, second stop on our tour of Malaysia

I'm several cities / stops behind now, so have decided to resort to just showing some photos with short captions rather than writing at length about everything...hopefully will have a chance to do a more detailed post when we get to Viet Nam.  In the meantime, here's some pix from our travels in Malaysia, from the cities of Malacca and Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands (follow the links for more info about each place / thing)   ~William

Colourful trishaws compete for your attention among the old alleyways of Malacca

Our visit to Melacca coincided with the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts!

   

Stacey tries out being Royalty, I try out being the servant!

Night market in Chinatown of Malacca - there's Stacey in front looking for good veggie food stalls!

 

  
Speaking of strange foods, we're trying them all.  Left to right, clockwise:  Baba Cendol,  Nasi Lemak (eaten for breakfast), and Kaya spread (put on toast - very yummy, reminded me of pumpkin butter) and Laksa, a hot spicy soup. Malaysia's food is amazingly good and cheap if you eat at night street markets.  Why would anyone want to eat at McDonalds?

Some things are the same, some are very different!

The Dutch dominated Malacca for a little while as well (and the British and Japanese after them!) and left this fort to prove it.

Flor de la Mar, the "Flower of the Sea" - a replica Portuguese galleon at Malacca reminding us of their colonial presence.

A waterwheel - also called a "Noria" - which would have been around at the time of the Malay Sultanate

We stayed at Emily Traveller Home in Malacca.  

 

 

 

The Sam Poh Buddhist Temple in the Cameron Highlands

 

 

 

Picking tea at the Boh Tea Estate in the Cameron Highlands.