Malacca attractions

A postcard. The travel took me almost half a month for all the tourist attractions Malacca has to offer.

Malaqa musuem, located at Jalan Heeren. Beside few units of Baba Nyonya Heritage musuem.

Exhibits of antiques, old furnitures, coins and pots.

 Jonker 88 cafe, located at Jonker street. It's a cafe famous for its 'Baba cendol'. The cafe consists of many Peranakan exhibits including clocks, paintings and lightings.

Baba Nyonya Heritage musuem, located Jalan Heeren. This is the ancestral home of three generation Baba Nyonya. Exhibits including old furnitures, cupboards, paintings, pots, clocks and etc... No camera allowed inside.

Cheng Hoon Teng, also known as temple of Clear Clouds. It house the court of justice during the early days.

 

Kota A Famosa, Porta de Santiago. The oldest European fortress in Asia. This fort was constructed by the Portuguese in 1511. Before being destroyed by the Dutch and British.

Portuguese Square, was created due to the overwhelming responses of tourists to see the tradition of the Portuguese. It is located just next to Portuguese settlement homes.

Sam Po Kong temple, located at Jalan Munsyi Abdullah near Hang Li Poh's well.

Samudera Maritime musuem, a resemblance galleon of the Portuguese which sank.

St. Paul Chapel,  a church located on top the hill of the fortress A Famosa.

Tranquerah mosque, at Jalan Tukang Emas. It is famous for its 3-tier pyramid architecture rooftop.

Cheng Ho Cultural musuem, located just next to Jonker street. It exhibits the admiral Cheng Ho collection such as coins, pots, scriptures, furnitures n etc.

A cafe overlooking the Malacca river.

Jonker walk, famous for its night time carnival on weekends, Fri-Sun 6pm onwards till 11pm.

Bullock cart located at Ayer keroh, near the Malacca zoo. It is an ancient transportation of the Malacca settlement.

I supposed you are wondering how to get to these area? Well for a start there's buses to almost all these places. The 'Panaroma' Melaka bus headed for these tourist destination. And there's another bus company called 'Town bus' which will bring you to most of these places.

If you are travelling from Singapore, Johor or Kuala Lumpur heading down to Malacca, you will arrived at the main bus station called 'Sentral Melaka'. There's intercity buses and domestic buses. You can travel out of Malacca city to other smaller towns like Tampin, Durian Tunggal, Alor Gajah or Ayer Keroh. Fares are between RM2.00 to RM 4.30 per person. Or you can travel to major cities like K.L, Penang, Singapore and etc... at the intercity buses at Sentral Melaka.

To travel to Dutch square, pay RM1.00 for a domestic bus ride where you alight. Most of the attractions are just around Dutch Square - including Jonker walk, musuem, cafe 88, A Famosa fort and St. Paul's hill.

Please note that bus services to Dutch square ends at 9.45pm everyday including weekends. So be sure you can catch the last bus. Where else buses to other towns ends around 7-8pm (Company such as Salira, Baswira and Tat Lye offering these daily route to these smaller towns).

If you miss the last bus to Dutch square, you can take the taxi which cost ard RM 12.00 - 15.00 to the Dutch square if you are better in bargaining should cost around RM 10.00 per trip only. 

As for train travel, be sure to get down at Tampin, a smaller rural town and walk to the bus station board the bus to Malacca. Pay RM 4.20 bus ride to Sentral Melaka bus station. Train are ktm services which only head to K.L Sentral to transit again to the north or south Malaysia.