Melacca (aproximately 60 miles south of Kuala Lumpur)

One thing we did notice was that you could not go more than 2 or 3 blocks without finding some kind of food station. Singaporeans do love their food. Because of my food allergies I had to be careful, and we did not have any problems. There are these large areas of different stations of food vendors called Hawkers Stations. Food was very cheap. Plates ranged from $2 - $5. Occasionally we ate at these places but finding someone who was fluent English was rare. A lot of these places sold very interesting food. One sign said 1 frog $4, buy 2 and get 3rd one free. So we tended to find more food court kind of places where it was a bit more expensive but they spoke English. However after 10 days we were getting tired of rice, noodles and soup.

We met a local lady at one of the food courts and we started talking. She told us to go to Malacca which is in Malaysia. She grew up in Malacca and recommended that we see it. So we did some research and hopped on a bus (which took 4 ½ hours one way) and set out on a new adventure. We spent the night at a very nice small hotel. Malacca has a lot of history, and we spent the two days walking and viewing buildings that were built in the 1600’s by the Portuguese at the beginning of the spice trade. This is was the remains of a church ( St Paul’s ), then later when the British Army conquered the city they used the church for a burial ground. It was situated on the top of a hill overlooking the city and only the four walls remained.