Mini Malaysia

Really is small (Our state house)

Entrance of the Taman Mini Malaysia

After we leave the Butterfly & Reptiles Park, we come to the Mini Malaysia. Mini Malaysia explores the various types of traditional Malaysian houses representing the 13 states.

Each traditional house is manned by a kebaya-clad duty officer and displays different furnishings and mannequins. Most distinctive are the Tuaran Sabah-Lotud Dusun Traditional House and the Iban Long House from Sarawak, made partly of bamboo and garishly decorated with human skulls.

An arena within the compound occasionally stages cultural shows and traditional games. Mini Asean features representative houses from Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The Filipino house is especially picturesque. Finally, drop by the Pusat Kraftangan (Handicraft Center) for an intriguing range of baskets.

Air Panas at Gadek

HOT SPA AT HERE!

Our last destination is the hot spring pools at Malacca. This hot spring pools located in Alor Gajah, distance from the A-Famosa Resort is about 10 minutes drive to this destination, while the city of Malacca is about 30 km. This hot spring pools was nothing big distinguish with Labis hot spring pools there are also could cure some types of diseases. Temperature hot water at there has an average 56 degree Celsius. Therefore, I think the waters could cook the eggs less than three minutes away. Gadek Hot Springs Pool is a place suitable for families, whether for recreation or to cure skin diseases and others. The payment for adult is RM 4.00 and children only RM 2.00. This was also there are open 24 hours.

Thanks for Mr. Lim Bao Cun Donate This Picture As a reference...

A Famosa Water World

Fantasy World

^_^!!! ...Finally, after 2 hour half we reached our first destination “A Famosa”.

Wow..., the A Famosa fun park have many facilities can let visitors play. We buy the ticket from the counter, then we bring our cloth go inside the Water Park…^^

After change our cloth, King faster go jump into the pool and make the water splash everywhere. Then we all also jump into the water too. The Water Park have many facilities like Arabian Village (A fantastic Aladdin Pool ), Kids Adventure Pool, Wave Pool, Lazy River, Seven Storey High Speed Slides (Scary but fun ) and Family Raft. Christine Boyfriend- Vinson and Bao Cun go to take the challenge of the Seven Storey High Speed Slides while King, Christine and her friend go to play the Family Raft. Is really fun for that day. We spend about 3 hours inside the water park! Last, we go to the souvenir shop have a walk. Wish can go again soon...

Eye On Malaysia

Malaysia biggest Ferris wheel

After we leave Fort A Famosa, we go straight to the center of Malacca that is Eye on Malaysia. Eye on Malaysia ticket price for Malaysians and foreigners would be different and that Malaysian adults who produced MyKad would be charged RM10, RM8 for children above 12 and RM5 for children below 12. Malaysian senior citizens and students from local private and public institutions of higher learning will be charged RM8. For foreigners, tickets are priced at RM20 (adults) and RM10 (children).

First time we sit at the Ferris wheel we would felt scare, because it is really high. Like Bao Cun he really scares at the higher place, so he sitting in the Ferris wheel already felt scare. At that moment the Ferris wheel stop at the top the wind are so strong our wheel also moves. But after two rounds we already felt boring because nothing to do inside the Ferris wheel.

HISTORY

History Place in Melaka

In the second day, we go visit the historical place in Melaka, that are Fort A Famosa, Maritime Museum, Palace of Malacca's Malay Sultanate, St. Paul's Church, Christ Church. Maritime Museum, replica of the Frol de la mar ship, Malacca. Fort A Famosa attracted millions of tourists to Malacca every year. So for that day we know many kind of culture, region and most of all, the fantastic of Melaka Historical Town. Below are the history about the place there we visit and most like....

The Stadthuys, Museum UMNO Melaka, Replica of the Frol de la mar ship, Malacca

A Famosa

A Famosa is a fortress located in Banda Hilir, Malacca in Malaysia. A Famosa is commonly pronounced as “ei Famosa” although the actual pronounciation is “ah Famosa”. It also means “The Famous” in Portuguese.

Banda Hilir has gone through a major revamp in the past 500 years. No matter what change happens in Banda Hilir, Fort A Famosa stands still for the past 500 years watching the Portuguese era, Dutch era, British era and Malaysia Independence era. Fort A Famosa stands still in daylight or moonlight and rain or shine, glowing and shining at its magnificent original structure left 500 years ago for the mankind to wonder and appreciate history.

Fort A Famosa is situated in Banda Hilir, neighbouring Melaka Palace Museum, Girls Primary Convent (SRK Sacred Heart Convent), Guys Secondary Convent (SMK St. Francis Xavier) and a walking distance from Melaka Equatorial Hotel. The Famous “Padang Pahlawan” has been replaced with a shopping mall for tourist.

The fortress was billed by Portuguese under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque in 1511. The fort consists of four major towers, once upon a time. Inside the fortress walls, lived a village in town houses. As time passed, Malacca’s population grew and extension was added to the original fort.

Yesterday or today, the only obsession which never ends is the war between people, country and nations. In 1641, the fort changed hands to the Dutch. Dutch maintained the fort and did some renovation to the fort in 1670.

The fortress had to go through another change of hands before knowing its final destiny. In 19th century, the Dutch handed the fort to British as prevention over Napoleon’s conquering from France. Unfortunately, the British ordered for fortress destruction in 1806. Sir Stamford Raffles wrote the final destiny of the fortress because of his obsession for history and spared us a small part of the fortress which is called Fort A Famosa untill today.

Christ Church

Christ Church is the oldest functioning Protestant church in Malaysia. Construction began in 1741 on the centennial of the Dutch occupation, and it was completed in 1753. Before this date the Dutch used the old Portuguese church atop St. Paul's hill for their religious services.

Christ Church bears all the hallmarks of 18th-century Dutch architecture: a rectangular plan, massive walls, red granite plinths, and Dutch roof tiles. The ceiling is 12.2 meters above the floor and the roof beams are each cut from a single tree. The building's footprint is a perfect 2:1 proportion: 27 meters on the long end and 13 meters on the short. The pews are original, and so are the windows, but were reduced in size by the British in the 19th century.

The church is notable for some unusual objects in the interior (regrettably, photography is not permitted). The church bell is inscribed with the date 1698, suggesting that it was used for another purpose before the completion of the church. Most bizarre are tombstones incorporated into the floor of the church. The tombstones are written in Portuguese and were originally in St. Paul's Church inside the Portuguese fortress. However, they were removed by the Dutch when they occupied Melaka in 1641. Since it is unlikely that the highly religious Dutch would have used Catholic tombstones inside a Protestant church, historians surmise that they were installed there by the British.

Food :)

Food of jonker street

Wow, so many food that in this jonker street!!! If you’re asking a local resident or tour guide to suggest a must-visit destination in Melaka, except the historical places of warship, chances are extremely high that he/she will definitely answer with firmed tone, speaking out one of these names Jonker Street, Jonker Walk or Jalan Hang Jebat.

Jonker Street, houses some of the Melaka oldest dwellings or houses dating back to the 17th century, is also informally known as the antique street. The antique shops here are featuring artifacts from different periods of colonial rule Portuguese, Dutch, and British. If you have sufficient time to stroll through the street with eagle eyes, you can easily hunt and bargain for the unique and valuable antique furniture, Chinese porcelain, brassware, cast iron beds, lamps, coins and money notes, as well as the priceless Buddha statues. Besides this antique, Jonker Street have many small stalk that sell snack, drink, candy, and some delicious food.

This are we like to introduce the food at jonker street are the Chinese Dim Sum, Cendol and some shop. The Chinese Dim Sum in the Jonker Street are famous. It have many kind of Dim Sum especially Pau. The stalk sell about 6-7 kind of Pau and other kind of Dim Sum like the Fish Ball.

After a long walk at Jonker street, we finally have a rest in a dessert shop name "Jonker Dessert 88","大宝小食"^^. This Shop famous in many kind of ice kacang and cendol, so we order to try some. Is really taste good and so refresh for us. So we continue our walk after drink the cendol.

We go in to the Geographer Cafe located at the middle of the street is especially known among the foreign visitors, for its happening live bands on Friday and weekend nights. At that cafe, there was full of foreign visitors and the melody of country music was cover the whole cafe. We enjoy as we dance and sing the song together. Wish that we stay in Melaka ....

Shopping Time

Woman favourite Mall

Now is the time that Christine and her friend like most, is time for shop, I can’t believe them, they can shop 3 biggest combination shopping mall that are Mahkota, Pahlawan and Carrefour.When we reached there, we try to find parking inside the Pahlawan Mall underground parking places, but we can't find anything because are full.

So decided to park near the shopping mall and walk to the Shopping. When we reach the Shopping Mall, the girl quickly go in to their favourite shop to buy their cosmetic item, Bao Cun and King just go Starbucks Coffee enjoy their high tea.

The price are expensive but as long as we are happy, so we enjoy well. Bao Cun order the espresso coffee and King order a Latte inside the Starbucks. At that time, Shawn them reach the Pahlawan Mall, we together take the picture beside the wishing well that at the shopping mall and they found something very interesting near the well is a rest and go station provide by Gintel companies.

Got two massages chair at there and is really good for people to take a rest for a long walk inside the shopping mall. It also cost cheap. After that, Christine and her friend go to some cosmetic shop to buy some cosmetic for daily use, then we go to some boutique to shop for some cloth. After few hour they girl shopfinish, we meet together at the stage of the Pahlawan Mall.

Eventually the girl still want to go to

the Mahkota to continue shop the stuff, so when the boys hear about that was very shock, theyreally can shop for the whole day. So that them believe girl really are Shopping Holic. After we discuss, the girl continue their shop and the boys go to play bowling.

Day for our trip

Exciting day for us (going)

That day was a day we travel to Malacca there are so exciting. We check the car of Christine see whether could travel to Malacca or not. As we known Malacca is a historic town which has been occupied by people from many different countries over the years. So that, we are bring a happy feeling on that day. First, we have our breakfast at Segamat Baru breakfast shop, then we go to Shawn hostel to wait for them. After wait for half an hour, we decided to go first. On the way we go to Christine home town Gemencheh to take camera to capture for all this trip pictures, King was slepping inside the car. The way he sleep was so funny along the way to Christine house. When we reach Christine house, he still sleep. So Bao Cun need to call him to wake up. After taking the camera, we continue our journey. When we reach to Malacca was raining cats and dogs during that time, so we change the planning to go for shopping complex first.

Planning Our Trip....

Dream Palace (Prepare Our Trip)

=="... Haiz, in this semester are so bored. So we plan to go for travel. Well since we haven go to Melaka before, one of our friend as a tour guide will help us. By planning this, we plan our budget for a person about RM200 for a night stay in Melaka and our food.

Beside that, we prepare our wear, shampoo and for the stay and some snack along the way to there. The destination and the time was also prepare well only left that hope the weather on our trip is sunny day not raining day of us...==