Melaka!

Melaka is a nice little place about two hours by coach from KL. We stayed in a nice hostel called Ringo's Foyer Guesthouse. When we arrived we were greeted by the owner, Howard, a very cool man
who owns lots of bikes. In the evening he took us and some other guests from the hostel out on the bikes. We cycled along the river where there were cool painted buildings and pretty lights and we ended up in a street where you could buy lots of different types of food. I tried a Chinese noodle soup. You have to pick the ingredients you want first, then they add the soup and noodles. It was very tasty.

On our first day we walked around the town a bit. We found a hill with an old church on top, some pirate ships and lots of cool shops and stuff in China town. There was a cool night market where you could buy souvinirs, lots of different types of food and clothes. We had a beer with the other English people from our hostel, two girls who had been teaching English in Thailand and a doctor carrying out malaria research, called Richard.

The next day we went up the Melaka tower with Richard where you could see all the sights from up high. We then went to have a drink by the riverside where we saw a cool monitor lizard or something, I'm not sure what it was because I wasn't aware that they could swim. Anyway, it was really cool!

On our final night in Melaka Howard took us for some nice Indian food. We then decided to have a Christmas party at the hostel so Howard called up his friend Charlie to get us some cheap beers and brandy. The Christmas party turned into about three games of ring of fire, after which point we decided to go out to the town. Unfortunately Melaka is not too rocking on a Monday night so we had some tequila then came back for more ring of fire on the roof! In the morning we had to get up early to take the coach to Penang.