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- Welcome to Malacca
- The hotel for the stay
- which is somewhere in Malaysia!
- comfy bed-cony included!
- Porta De Santiago
- aka the a'famosa Fortress
- Ruins of Fort A Famosa
- Fire away!
- Cannons along Jalan Kota
- Meet my big gun!
- Inside the fort entrance
- palmy trees!
- Look fort!
- Up we go!
- Behold a hulk of old bricks!
- View from the fort
- Tombs on the top
- what's buzzling here?
- Oh it's a fort
- street buskers included!
- of the Famosa kind
- This used to be a well or sort
- Murals or vandalism, you name it!
- Outside the ruins
- Birdie!
- Malacca (aka Negeri Bersejarah) is the 3rd smallest Malaysian state
- Comprising mainly Malay sultanates...
- Statue of St. Francis Xavier
- the monarchy was abolished when the Portuguese conquered it in 1511
- And the Famosa fort in the background
- Therefore a mix of western buildings in the area
- Picture with birdie!
- some graves are very badly maintained
- The dutch cemetery
- Heading down
- we were up there!
- Yup it's the Famosa alright!
- More Cannons!
- Trishaws here are amazing
- They are like moving hulks of umm. art!
- More of the Jalan Kota trishaw infestation
- So many PRIMARY COLOURS!
- including various transport modes
- there's also a park housing displays
- cannons included!
- An era long forgone
- look s dozer!
- The Stadthuys (Museum of History and Ethnography)
- Constructed in 1650 as the residence of the Dutch Governor
- Jalan Merdeka round about by the Melaka Clock tower