Malacca Malaysia

Malacca wallpaper

Enjoy Malacca Malaysia on your desktop after downloading one of these free Malacca wallpapers.   Historical center of Melaka wallpaper   Click the picture to download a 1024×768 wallpaper (121KB) of the historical center of Melaka featuring Christ Church.   Chinese rooftop Malacca wallpaper   Click the picture to download a 1024×768 wallpaper (175KB) of [...]

Majestic Hotel Melaka

  Read my useful traveler remarks to complete the info about the Majestic Hotel Melaka article I read in the New Strait Times newspaper today:   the picture shows only the mansion in front of the Majestic Hotel Melaka Building  prices online can go to $100 without breakfast (it’s always cheaper and more adventurous to [...]

Malacca Chief Minister buys votes but remains Malacca Chief Minister

One way of knowing you are in a so called undeveloped country, is by looking at the way they do politics. If it feels like your local village politics where the ruler decides all and the rest of the population has little or no say, then you know you are no longer in Western Europe. [...]

Malaysia Tourist Visa

Save tenfold by applying for MM2H: a Malaysia tourist visa with multiple entries. How? By cutting out the middleman and applying personally.   Unlike me who had to fork out more than tenfold the duty stamps of my MM2H visa because I was obliged to use an official agency, you can now apply personally to [...]

A Famosa History

Unlike the inscription Anno 1670, a Famosa history dates back to 1511 when the Portuguese conquered Melaka, what is now known as Malacca Malaysia.   After establishing outposts like Macau and Goa, the Portuguese fleet commanded by Alfonso de Albuquerque attacked and defeated the armies of the Malacca Sultanate.   Alfonso built the A Famosa [...]