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Weekend Getaway - Malacca

Last week, my parents were in town for my little sister's graduation and they spent a week accompanying me and the children while hubby was away for business trip.
After hubby came back to Singapore on Friday,  we had a short getaway to Malacca the next day. Hubby drove there and it took around 3.5 hours including the immigration clearance.

We arrived there around 2 pm and had late lunch at Mega Mall Malacca.



Then we explored the Malacca heritage centre which including their famous landmarks, St Paul's ruins, Christ church and red bricks buildings.


St paul ruins

inside st paul's ruins


Malacca straits view from above


Christ Church Area

tricycle to explore the city centre


St Francis Xavier Church


It was hot sunny day so the kids were a bit cranky and tired so we didn't explore much and went back to hotel for rest and shower.

In the evening we had dinner at Cottage Spices Nyonya restaurant which  6 minutes walk from our hotel. We stayed at Hotel Equatorial. Eventhough it's quite old, the location was good. It's 10 minutes walk to city center.





We ordered few peranakan dishes and they were so good. Our tummy was fully satisfied.
When we were on the way back to hotel, we passed by fruits stall and decided to have durian feast.
It was so cheap and the owner was very kind, he kept giving us free durian as their stall was closing soon.



We're heading back to hotel with bloated tummy full of durian hahaha....
In the end, we had good night sleep at the hotel.

The next day was a rainy and cloudy day, it's quite opposite from the day before.
After breakfast and checking out, we went to Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum and passed by Jonker Street. We visited the museum and it reminded me to my grandaunt's house in Semarang.








Then we stopped by to Baba Charlie Cake to buy some peranakan delicacy. It's freshly made and the queue was long.
We took away the kueh for our food stock during our journey back to Singapore.




We left Malacca around 1pm and it took around 3.5 hours and reached Singapore around 4pm.

It was a short, sweet and nice escape to neighbouring country.

Something we learnt from this trip, Malacca was a peranakan county. The livehood there was pretty relax. Most of food stalls only open half day either morning until afternoon or evening until late.
The people were nice and friendly.

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