One of the many colorful trishas you will find around the Town Square (aka Dutch Square). Hop in and Indian pop music will magically start to blare out of onboard speakers.
View from inside the ruins of St. Paul's Church situated atop Bukit St. Paul in Malacca's old town.
An older gentleman taking a smoke-break on Jonker Street.
A nice little cafe on Jonker Street to stop off for cool refreshing glass of fresh fruit juice.
chillin' out at the Geographer Cafe on Jonker Street
the entranceway to a temple off of Jonker Street in Malacca
Walking down Jonker Street at night, I felt sure that Hayao Miyazaki had walked through here at some time or another. The streets from "Spirited Away" must have been inspired by the here - Straits Chinese culture meets colonial English architecture.
2 comments:
いいねぇ！マレーシア！！竜楽しんでるねぇ！！羨ましいぞこの野郎ーー(^-^）今までと違う観点からいろんなことを発見するのが旅のだいごみだ！6月後半、竜と会うのが楽しみ！インドに行くとなかなか東南アジアみたいに早いネットがないから苦労するかもしれないが、負けじとこのブログ、続けてくれい！もちろん、お気に入りに追加させていただきました｡
Hi Tatsu,
Browsing thru your blog. Thought you might want to know that what you thought was a temple is actually an association building. It's the Hokkien peoples' ( I am Hokkien by the way) association (club) building. The associations were very important in the early days to help new migrants from Hokkien province settle down in M'sia. Today, the associations still own lots of land & are very wealthy. They take care of the funeral land & are social & charity clubs.
We are going back to Kuching this weekend, can't wait!
Bye now. Have fun in Bangkok! You might want to try Chiang Mai, think you will like it more than Bangkok, like you like Sabah more than the KL.
Julie & Yan
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