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Travelogue: Malacca (Tourist Attraction (II))

In case you have missed my previous posts
1. Malacca Accomodation
2. Malacca Jonker street
3. Malacca Tourist attraction (I)

Here for the part 2 of our tourist attraction and probably the last post for being the tourists of the day. On the second day of our trip, we executed our initial plan by taking the ferry at Melaka River. While on the way to the river, we settled down to take a picture of Queen Victoria's fountain. Nothing much for us to view but let's listen to the history behind it.



The Queen Victoria's Fountain is located in the same area as The Stadthuys Malacca and the Christ Church. It is just beside the Tan Beng Siew Clock Tower. The fountain was built to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The Queen Victoria Fountain was built in 1901 by the British and is still standing as elegant as ever until this very day. Although more than a hundred years old, this fountain is still functioning well and is probably the only functioning colonial water fountains in Malaysia. 

Queen Victoria Fountain link



Another church that we passed by while strolling around to kill time as we came in too early for our ride. 

ST FRANCIS XAVIER’S CHURCH
A domineering presence in the skyline of Malacca, this twin-spired neo-gothic structure was built on the site of an old Portuguese church by a French priest, Father Farvé, in 1856, in honour of St. Francis Xavier, a prominent 16th-century Catholic missionary also known as ‘Apostle of the East’. Located on Jalan Laksamana, the church’s finishing touches were completed in 1859 by Father Allard, with the present-day presbytery built in 1874.
St Francis Xavier Church link

Every morning, there will be prayers made and majority who came in were Indian families. While the praying commence when we were standing outside the church, we didn't enter in so not to disturb them.






Geezzzz, we knew earlier that the Ferry operates at 9.30am but when we reached there to purchase our tickets, the staff announced that the first boat came in at 10.30am!! 1 hour of idling around really bored us! But nevertheless. we waited! We buy for the experience you see. 



We knew that we have to find something to do so we decided to pay RM8 to enter into Maritime Museum. Oh well, this museum is not really fantastic but at least we wasted 30 mins here capturing good moments.



Here we are at the top of the ship deck! DSLR is not doing a good job to capture the scenery and us so here to my fish-eye lens! Its been a good use to take shots of us and the view.






 Skipping on what we saw in the museum if not this is going to bore you to death. Bascially if you want to know more about the history, you may consider to come in here? They have alot of detailed history background.







The museum is so boring so its better off to take ourselves. HAHAHA





Looking at the time, it was 10am and we managed to sneak in among the crowd to catch the first boat! Lucky us! But not lucky enough because we sat in the same boat with the Indian Family whom they made so much noise. No peace at all! 

Some were rude as though they owned the whole ferry, there's this indian kid pushed people around to get her way in. I mean like can't she wait for one to step in first before she make her move? Why if the person lose his/her balance and fall into the river. Tsk tsk.








Weather was exceptionally good! The wind blew and my hair kept slapping on my face. 






The reason why I want to ride on this ferry was to see the mural painting along this whole streets. Beautiful painting to take #ootd but its too far to walk from Jonker street to here so we only can-see but cannot-touch.







With paying of RM15 for a 40 mins ride, many will find it a waste of money. But being the first time here, everything also must try once. Even the most boring museum we have been, this ride is nothing to us but a sit-back and relax day.

I shall call this post off with our faces! Thanks to the one sitting beside me for being a great companion, walking up and down with me even though your calves ached like mad at the end of the day, sharing all the good/ street food with me. Having to try out alot of new things and also a happy cam-whore buddy. I hope and hope you will forever be my travel buddy! Our aim for the next trip: Penang (:

Places of where to eat will be up on the next post!

Till then

Travelogue: Malacca ( Tourist attraction I)

In case you have missed out, clicked on the link below: 
1. Malacca's accomodation post
2. Malacca Jonker Walk



Back with another post of the itinerary that we have planned before this trip. Since it was our first Malacca trip, its a must to explore around all the tourist attraction. I did a tedious research on where to bring Stella, which are the must-go attraction as there are too many places to cover in the list.
Given only for 2 days 1 nights, its difficult for us to cover all but at least we ticked off those popular places.

All the tourist attraction are walkable, all side by side with one another. Some may have to travel abit further but lets think that this can be a good way to digest your food, especially indulging all the good food from Jonker street.




Our first stop, we ticked off Christ Church. It is located near to Malacca’s Chinatown centre. It is the oldest functioning Protestant church in Malaysia. 

The area is stepped in Baba Nyonya culture with opulent ‘Baba merchants’ houses and elegantly-conserved Nyonya restaurants that line the constricted roads. Christ Church is small – once inside, right beside the front doors there is a long table with brochures and religious paraphernalia for sale set up. There are about ten rows of pews before the main altar and the whole place has old light fixtures and plenty of worn-but-well-kept tiles.

The sun was mercilessly killing us! But thankful that it didn't rain as what the weather forecast stated, You can choose to enter in to the Christ Church but we didnt because we would like to save time for other places. Admission fee is needed to enter in and also no photograph is allowed inside the premises.

Address: Jalan Kota Melaka, Melaka 



Just side by side you can find another attraction, the stadhuys. The Stadthuys is believed to be the oldest-surviving Dutch building in the East. Part of Malacca town square’s prominent Dutch colonial architecture it is a massive bright terracotta-red riverfront building that was once the official residence of Dutch governors and officers.
The stadhuys link

These two photos could simply explained and shown that we were here at the stadhuys house.



Most of the bloggers mentioned that you should hop on to one of the Trishaw in Malacca. If you haven't, its means that its meaningless for you to travel to that country. Now I knew why they said that! Just checked out on their trishaw. Different cartoon characters for you to ride on. We spotted Ironman, Batman, Spiderman, Frozen, Doremon and the most common trishaw on the streets would be HELLO KITTY! 




Stella and I were approached by the trishaw man with his Doremon theme Trishaw! Instead of getting Hello kitty, we accepted his offer and didn't expect that his service is far-fetched more than what I have expected. This trishaw man explained all the tourist attractions carefully and specifically. He definitely has done well on his homework and we were very pleased to be his customers. Good service!

Oh I forgot to state down how much we paid for this ride. With a loan of 1 trishaw, we burnt RM50 on our pocket hole. Yes, RM50 may seems to be a big amount but let me finish it. This RM50 brought you to all the tourist attraction, covered everything that we want to explore at that area.
So basically, we spent more but in return we saved our precious time!


Before we leave to explore the whole area, the trishaw man volunteer to help us to snap a picture of us in the trishaw, He's really a committed driver and really know how to use camera well. Most of the people that we asked would probably have no idea on how to operate my DSLR or took blur pictures but he effortlessly tried every angle to ensure that all pictures were well taken,




Our first stop would be the Melaka River where one could ride on the ferry to enjoy the scenery. We were given 15 mins to walk around to take pictures and there again, he volunteered to help us with the pictures. "Come, let me take picture of both of you." "Stand there, that angle looks nicer". For once, he was our part-time photographer.

He explained the history of the Melaka river to us and prompted us to come during night because of the lightning and the breeze but both Stella and I thought that morning scenery is nicer to view at so we are coming here on the second day!




Right behind us, you can see a big SHIP! Its one of the tourist attraction icon, Maritime Musuem. There's a gallery inside this big ship that you have to pay RM8 to enter in. Stella and I went in on the second day! More information will be up!



The driver allowed us to ride on the driver seat! He's like "feel free to sit'', ''I will help you take pictures''. LOL


He continued to cycle us around and we drove past this Revolving Observation Tower. Its not a must to ride on it but if you want to witness the whole landscape of Melaka, then please spend RM38 on this. Its expensive to me so I urged you not to ride on. 




We stopped by this random place to look around and was attracted to this old railway train. Inside the train cabin lies some shop houses which sells shirt that you can customise and bring it back home.





Awkwardly using monopod infront of the local people. Caught many stares from them but who cares? We are Singaporean! Not Malaysian Boleh! Everything also kiasu.








Our very last stop was at A FAMOSA-PORTE DE SANTIAGO. This is probably the most exhausting walk ever at Malacca. With inter-link to St.Paul's Church, we have to walk up to a fleet of stair in order to reach our destination. The steps aren't gentle you know? Its a whole steep of stairs. So if families who are coming with elderly, try not to let them climb up the stairs. 




The Porta De Santiago (A Famosa) is one of the most popular sites that you can find when visiting Malacca. It is a major historical landmark and is probably the most photographed structure in Malacca. The A Famosa is located just next to the Stadthuys building. The fort of Porta De Santiago (A Famosa) is one of the oldest surviving European architectural remains in the whole of Asia. This tiny gate which we call A Famosa or Porta de Santiago is the last remains of what used to be a mighty fortress.
Porta De Santiago






They do sell souvenirs while we were climbing up the stairs. But everything that they have were sold at Jonker market so there's nothing much for us to buy.







The St Paul's Church is the church ruins that sit on the top of the St Paul's Hill. The hill was originally named as Malacca Hill. It was then changed to Monti Ali Maria or Mary's Hill after the Portuguese took over the hill. The St Paul's Church was originally a chapel and was known to the Portuguese in Malacca as the Chapel of Mother of God (Madre de Deus) or Our Lady of the Hill (Nossa Senhora do Oiteiro).

Happy faces when we finally reached our destination! HEN TIRED LEHHHHHH! Over here, you get to see an overview of the whole Malacca Port. Beautiful scene to mark down the end of our tour!






I think our whole journey ride lasted us one hour? It was pretty fun enjoying the breeze while the trishaw man pushed himself to ride us around. Along the way, he blasted out songs. So we have Óppa Gangnam Style", Hey soul sister and Doremon theme songs! It was cute when people start singing Doremon song while we rode past them. Some were fascinated by it! 

We forgot to take picture with the trishaw man if not I would have shown his face to recommend all of you to find him when you are planning to go for a short Malacca trip.

Till then for Day 2 itinerary post.
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