malaka

We arrived safely in Malaka at 04:00 pm, got settled into our second hostel (not as good as betal bug but never mind). Looking around me and Dan agreed that it looked like a little french village in china! How strange??? Again, all the streets are spotless, everything is illuminated at night as if in a museum or something, its nice to see how proud people are of their surroundings. It is so well manicured you are affraid to step in a way that might offend!

We did the norm, ate, drank, slept... nothing exciting. The next day we decided to do the sights in the proper tourist way! We jumped onto a trishaw covered in flowers and relaxed while Danu (our driver) pedalled us all round town. its a strange mix of ultra modern and very authentic buildings. Strange but good, it's a bit like being in a theme park I suppose. Not at all what I imagined but I am quite happy with this ultra sleak theme park! We ate at one of the traditional food halls in the evening which is a fraction of the price of a normal meal. It is basically an open air eatery with lots of park benches under a big Chinese roof, little shacks around the outside serve all sorts of weird and wonderful things from pigs arse holes and pigs organ porridge to sweet and sour chicken (well, I hope). they are great places to go and soak up some atmosphere!

After tomorrow I think we will be hitting the desert islands, starting with Palau P, P, er I can't remember the name right now but it looks amazin!!