Seems I made a miscount somewhere as that should be until day 75 as I had 4 nights left after 2 days in Malacca (and it is not really 80 days anyway.. only if I include the day of departure and arrival but it sounds better then "Around...in 78 days")
Well, not much too say about the place... you can see all the historical stuff in one day and all of them are not that spectacular...I expected more. Seems it is more a weekend destination for Kuala Lumpurians (or whatever).
I was disappointed that the famous Pak Putra tandoori (yes, cannot get enough of Indian food) restaurant is closed until March 1st but I did make it to the other highly recommended eatery: Capitol Satay (serious waiting queue to get in). I thought the stuff you put in the boiling peanut sauce is not that great (the sauce is though) but the whole process is fun: pick as many satay's as you wish (all the same price: rm0.9 per piece) - sit at the table, they will stop by to heat up the table (well, it is a steel table with a hole in the middle where the pot of peanut sauce goes), a guy comes along to put some (I assume secret) herbs into it and when the mixture is boiling you can start to make a mess (You really should not wear a white shirt).
To me 2 days were more than enough (world heritage or not), the activity of day 2:
Took the bus to the big bus station to get a ticket for the day after to KL, so after 1 hour (5km) arrived at Melaka Sentral (paid with exact change - 1.50 ringgit)...bought the bus ticket for KL (12.20rm) and the (same) local bus back to the city centre was still there (basically it just makes a loop all the time, only in one way)...but the guy won't let me in because he has 'no change' for my 10 ringgit note... "What? you have plenty of change" when I see his hands full of 1 and 5 notes but again he claimed to have no change and let 2 locals in who pay with 5 notes... I had enough of the 'tourist must take a teksi thing' - which I did...for f**** 20 ringgit (for which you almost buy a return ticket to KL) so for the first time it happened... lost my temper and he received my rage: a shower of cursing and swearing (in multiple languages) due to 2.5 months of short distance transport tourist rip off frustration (Xe'oms and other motorbike taxi's, tuktuk's, tricycles and regular taxi's).
But as before during other trips, frustration and luck is very volatile in Asia... I might had some bad luck in short distance stuff but also good fortune with the long distance ones. On the day of departure I shared a taxi with a Dutch couple to the central bus station but that meant I was 2.5 hours early (really not needed to book a bus to KL in advance)..but wouldn't you know...could change my 12pm ticket to the 10am one so in the end I left before them.
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