12.08.18 - 18.08.18 Melakka, Kuala Lumpur

We have been to Melakka five years ago. But here, too, the missing photos have clouded our memories a bit, reason enough to refresh them. And that worked well, many corners of the small old town were familiar to us. 'Ah, we've been here before.'

Melakka, like Georgetown, has an old town with World Heritage status, and here too there are many cute old Chinese houses and even more small shrines full of burnt incense sticks.

The most famous street is probably Jonkerwalk, which turns into a lively market every weekend. 5 years ago we could see a street artist there who only hit coconuts with one finger, he has now retired and has been replaced by funny peeled coconuts that are thrown into the air acrobatically. Not only this street attracts countless tour buses with tour groups every day, but also the famous bicycle rickshaws decorated in endless ways, the chicken rice balls, and also the ruins of a church from the Dutch period in Malaysia.

We expanded the radius of the sights and visited an old Chinese cemetery that stretches over a whole hill and a small island that is connected to Melakka by a bridge, which was completely deserted except for a floating mosque and a huge construction site, which is supposed to become the new tourist paradise.

From Melakka, three days later, we returned to Kuala Lumpur, where we spent one last day enjoying Malaysian delicacies before flying to Sri Lanka.

The two of us agree that the detour we made due to the shortened time in India was absolutely worth it. Malaysia is a truly great country and very pleasant to travel. We will definitely come back again.

By the way, we described the culinary delights of Malaysia 5 years ago on our old blog: http://vollwietweg.tumblr.com/post/59472975442/essen-malaysia-im-westen-hört-man-ja-selten-von (PW: 27dong)