Group 5 goes to Malacca after 3 years of planning......

After three years of planning since 2011, group 5 finally made it to Malacca. Of course the trip was not without the usual dose of pre-departure drama when one of us had to pull out due to work. Make a guess. Pix intensive ahead.

Post bus journey and arrival checking in. 

The big spacious room

Mr. Haha. 

The weather was a KILLER.

Picture perfect blue skies. 

Meaning to say not a single piece of cloud was present. 

Lunch hunting. 

 And queues everywhere

In the end settled for chicken rice

Oldies

Queues.

For cakes. 

But...... Really?

Original was the best

Choco was.... okay

Tiramisu was mediocre at best. 

Jason brought combat ration wrapper.... HAHA

Impromptu massage hunting brought us to..

Combatting the heat

Where we chilled at

LONG walk for this..

They call this satay celup

Seems potent

And in the end

The Penang fried kuay teow that disappointed

Obligatory tourist shot

From the rooftop

I bought these imitations.. Haha

Complaining about the heat and rewarded with rain in the next morning.

Scrapping our plan for dim sum

We had breakky in the hotel

Stole some time in the room post breakky, pre massage. Spot where Amelia is buried.. 

Same same but diff

:D

Glorious day again

Plan failed again! Cannot book cos they close on Mon..... 

Post massage, we had lunch here. A la 2013 for TL's wedding

Now you see it.

Now you don't. Gone in 15min.

Ended up we didn't try this as the locals pointed us to another store..

That bag of 土产

Live saviour in the corridor

小巫见大巫

Post lunch. Spot who was banned from the bed as she didn't shower!

Of we went for dinner, after watching Pompeii in the room

Boat quay-ish

Red lanterns....

Locals got pointed us to this fried oysters.

It wasn't too bad, but a tad too dry for my liking

Noodles

The hawker street

More caucasians by river with bottles of Tiger...... 

De-heating with

Like an annoying tourist, we took a selfie while waiting for a Vesak Day procession to go past. 

Round two at the more famous one. A few steps from our hotel

Brought desserts back,

only to be greeted by a cluster blackout.

The candle flickered while we fed the mozzies

Got back to the room, but promptly ended up losing people.. Haha

The shower area that has a window to the outside

Inside a picture

Non buffet breakfast

She asked n got her 炒面

Checking out. 

Thank you and we'll be back! Hopefully

Took its toll on us

But there's always time for one last pre departure meal. Haa..