Malacca and KL trip
Just went on a weekend trip to Malacca and KL. Must say that Malacca is definitely more fun than KL All the little roads with antique and craft shops. I bought some incense and stuff at really good prices (about half that of Singapore but apparently they are even cheaper in bangkok.) The historical peranakan houses were beautiful. I especially like the air wells that are situated in the centre of each houses. Most of the air wells had clay urns of various sizes filled with lotus pads and cute little guppies. One had quite good sized black gold fishes swimming merrily in it. One shop was selling 3 pewter figurines of buddha in the classic poses of speak no evil, hear no evil and see no evil. So cute!!!!!! but quite expensive too. The whole set was selling for $380. Even though it was ringgit and pewter, it was still too expensive for my pocket. Sigh. Wandering along the streets, we stumbled across this little boutique hotel that had REAL swallows nesting in the display rooms. Its a really nice hotel with heaps of antiques and yet still managed to look pretty modern. The rooms look pretty nice (from the pictures that we were shown that is) even though we werent allowed to go up and take a look at them. They were quite reasonably priced too, about 110 for twin including breakfast. The hotel converted its large air well into a quiet little bar area reminisent of the basement area in Chijmes complete with a small water feature and wooden tables and chairs and lots of greenery. Think we will definitely be staying here the next time we visit Malacca again.
The trip up to KL was more to see the fireflies which were located quite a way off from KL actually, in Kuala selangor to be precise. It was a good thing I decided that we should be staying in the firefly resort and not in KL. I think the driving back to the capital would have just killed everyone. Driving there was bad enough with the hot weather. At first I thought that Malaysia is a lot hotter than Singapore until I realise that its cooler driving in Singapore because of all the trees that we have on the roadsides. Thank god for big road side trees in sg. I will definitely appreciate them more from now on. On the way to the resort (along highway 54), there were a couple of places selling bak bu teh. One of them had quite a lot of customers. Should have stopped and have dinner there instead of at the seafood restaurant at the resort. Oh well. There are also quite a number of nurseries and fish shops around that area.The firefly tour was quite surreal, decorating the trees like xmas lights. Combine that with the quiet and dark surroundings, they were actually quite impressive. Too bad for mossies and annoying tourists who insist on taking pictures with flashlights. DUH like the photos will turn out to be any good with the flashlight outshining the fireflies. The resort was quite cheap with the usual amenities all available except that the water was a bit weak. Thank god that didnt happen to me while I was showering. Anne and Greg got themselves locked in their room in the middle of the night. That made quite a interesting conversation for everyone in the morning. Everyone just couldnt stop laughing. Thank god it didnt take them too long to open the door otherwise we would have been stuck there for quite a while. We headed off to KL at about 9 plus in the morning and didnt get there till like almost 12. Whew. thank goodness the firefly tour is not something we will be doing again. KL was just like any big city. There wasnt really much to see and as it was reallly hot. We decide to to visit somewhere with air-con ie KLCC. That stands for KL city Centre bTW. That is also home to the Petronas Twin Towers. Tickets to go up to the tower were all snapped up before we got there so we decided to take a break and have some coffee instead at Dome. The whole place just reminds one of Suntec City except that its probably a lot more crowded. Oh ya, the towers were quite impressive with their metal and glass cladding. Very high tech. It was decided while sitting down for coffee that we would head back to Malacca for dinner and more wandering. On the way back, we passed this really impressive building near the mines hotel built like a castle. Apparently that is also a hotel. Wow. I wont mind going there there just to vege hahahaha although its probably a bit far from Singapore. Sam said he prefer going to the Bintan kind of hotels ie Bayan Tree hahahahaha. Well if he is not complaining I definitely wont mind going hehehehehehe. There were preparations for a night market when we got back to the antique street. Too bad we couldnt stay for that. We did managed to sample some poh pian though and those were quite delicious. Dinner at Capitol Satay (or lok lok as I remembered it from before) was really good but it probably would have been better if the weather wasnt so hot or my throat wasnt so scratchy. Oh well. I still managed to enjoyed it though.
All in all, I felt it was a pretty good trip. I just hope that everyone else felt the same way too.
The trip up to KL was more to see the fireflies which were located quite a way off from KL actually, in Kuala selangor to be precise. It was a good thing I decided that we should be staying in the firefly resort and not in KL. I think the driving back to the capital would have just killed everyone. Driving there was bad enough with the hot weather. At first I thought that Malaysia is a lot hotter than Singapore until I realise that its cooler driving in Singapore because of all the trees that we have on the roadsides. Thank god for big road side trees in sg. I will definitely appreciate them more from now on. On the way to the resort (along highway 54), there were a couple of places selling bak bu teh. One of them had quite a lot of customers. Should have stopped and have dinner there instead of at the seafood restaurant at the resort. Oh well. There are also quite a number of nurseries and fish shops around that area.The firefly tour was quite surreal, decorating the trees like xmas lights. Combine that with the quiet and dark surroundings, they were actually quite impressive. Too bad for mossies and annoying tourists who insist on taking pictures with flashlights. DUH like the photos will turn out to be any good with the flashlight outshining the fireflies. The resort was quite cheap with the usual amenities all available except that the water was a bit weak. Thank god that didnt happen to me while I was showering. Anne and Greg got themselves locked in their room in the middle of the night. That made quite a interesting conversation for everyone in the morning. Everyone just couldnt stop laughing. Thank god it didnt take them too long to open the door otherwise we would have been stuck there for quite a while. We headed off to KL at about 9 plus in the morning and didnt get there till like almost 12. Whew. thank goodness the firefly tour is not something we will be doing again. KL was just like any big city. There wasnt really much to see and as it was reallly hot. We decide to to visit somewhere with air-con ie KLCC. That stands for KL city Centre bTW. That is also home to the Petronas Twin Towers. Tickets to go up to the tower were all snapped up before we got there so we decided to take a break and have some coffee instead at Dome. The whole place just reminds one of Suntec City except that its probably a lot more crowded. Oh ya, the towers were quite impressive with their metal and glass cladding. Very high tech. It was decided while sitting down for coffee that we would head back to Malacca for dinner and more wandering. On the way back, we passed this really impressive building near the mines hotel built like a castle. Apparently that is also a hotel. Wow. I wont mind going there there just to vege hahahaha although its probably a bit far from Singapore. Sam said he prefer going to the Bintan kind of hotels ie Bayan Tree hahahahaha. Well if he is not complaining I definitely wont mind going hehehehehehe. There were preparations for a night market when we got back to the antique street. Too bad we couldnt stay for that. We did managed to sample some poh pian though and those were quite delicious. Dinner at Capitol Satay (or lok lok as I remembered it from before) was really good but it probably would have been better if the weather wasnt so hot or my throat wasnt so scratchy. Oh well. I still managed to enjoyed it though.
All in all, I felt it was a pretty good trip. I just hope that everyone else felt the same way too.
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