Melaka

Time for our last new country on this trip: Malaysia. This too - like Indonesia - is a Muslim country but at least in Melaka we chose our living quarters more wisely and were able to sleep all through the night, even though it's still Ramadan.This didn't mean that we didn't see any mosques - on the contrary. Here we saw one of the most beautiful mosques so far: the Masjid Selat Melaka.

Melaka is an old port town and has been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site for all the old shop houses in the old town/Chinatown. At first glance the old town looks a bit shady and worn down, but once you start looking more closely at the buildings, you start to notice all the nice details.

This was also a good place to try some Malay food: Popiah (a delicious stuffed, fresh roll) and laksa (a coconut based noodle soup).

Here we visited Bukit Cina - the biggest Chinese cemetery outside China. The atmosphere was almost spooky as the old graves (some from the Ming Dynasty) were scattered quite loosely over the hill.

Last but not least, Melaka is famous for it's pimped up rickshaws. We didn't take a ride but very much enjoyed watching all he Pikachus and Hello Kitties going around and playing remixes of both old and new pop songs (including Despacito).