Highlights:
- Porta De Santiago - Built 1511 - Gateway of Portuguese Fortress - "A Farmosa"
- St.Paul's Church - Built 1521 - Where St. Francis Xavier was once buried
- Stadhuys - Built 1641 to 1660 - Pink coloured dutch administrative buildings
- Cheng Hoon Teng - Built 1645 - Oldest know Chinese Temple in the peninsula
- Christchurch - Built 1753 - A well preserved example of dutch masonry
- Others - Portuguese Settlement, St. Peter's Church, Sultans Well, Malacca Museum, Jonker Street and Bukit China
Tour Itinerary
Depart Kuala Lumpur at 9:30 a.m. With a short refreshment stop in between, we arrive in Melaka in about 2 1/2 Hours. On arrival, visit St. Peter's Church (1710) - the oldest Christian Church still in use in Malaysia. Drive past the largest 17th century Chinese cemetery outside of China, located at Bukit China or Chinese Hill. Stop at the foothill to view the Sultan's Well before driving through the Portuguese Settlement. Proceed to view the Famous gateway "Porta De Santiago" and the ruins of St. Paul's Church lined by 17th century Dutch tombstones.
Next on the list is "Red Square" - the salmon-pink Dutch administrative building which today houses the Melaka Musuem and some other goverment offices.
Visit Christ Church before proceeding for lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we visit the "Adobe of the Green Merciful Clouds" or the Cheng Hoon Teng Temple - the only temple where you can find 3 major doctrines of local Chinese belief under the same roof, viz: Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Take a stroll along Melaka's "antique street" which ends by the banks of the Melaka Rivers. |
