As I drove through Jonker Walk ...
Ahead, two roads diverged into the city.
I steered right and an arch is above me when the statue of Mr. Asia at the other road on the left, stole a look from me. The road on the left is called Kubu Road. It is the statue of His Honourable Datuk Wira Gan Boon Leong, the former Mr. Asia. Read more about the Malaysian Bodybuilding in the Blog, WAY OF LIFE !
Datuk Wira is a Malay titles honouring someone with outstanding achievements.
Immediately after passing the arch, the image of Queen Victoria's fountain pop-up in my mind, and knowing very well, her fountain is about 1 kilometer right in front, standing proudly with the Christ Church and the Stadhuy as backgrounds.
Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Not forgetting the soft rest the foot against the accelerating pedal of the Malaysian made Proton Wira, the car was further slowed to the swaying of the many nationalists from many parts of the world, who are gazing on every inches of Jonker Walk.
All those nationalists are surely devoted to the interests and culture of one's nation, but each time on any other day, as I drove through Jonker Walk ... they gazed with love.
Learn more before you travel at Jonker Walk | Tourism Malaysia. Those nationalists are tourists.
99 feet stretch from the side mirror of the Proton Wira, is a row of very very old shops where the amazing home made Nyonya or some say, the Peranakan Pineapple Tart that can induce mouth watering condition and the tarts aroma would seduce you to melt them in your mouth.
Next to these tarts corners, is the Jonker Boutique Hotel, an old 3-storey concrete refurbished with modern amenities of 5-stars comfort. I sighed, "I must walk through Jonker Walk !". It is certainly to be only a normal discovery for a 3 hours walk best in daylight and better after dusk. To grab Jonker's heritage of old legends and tales, where not opt for a night long and check in at http://www.jonkerboutiquehotel.com/.
Enjoy the typical activities on street stage while you dine and fly them home in your captured video to quench your thirst on the unique legends and tales that kicked started from the past with the emergence of Paramewara, Admiral Cheng Ho, Saint Francis Xavier, Alfonso De Albuquerque, Ralph Ritch and the list does not stop here.
13 buses parked on side of the road leading to several fabulous clans buildings, nicely blocked the view of the Coffee Story. Before Malaya's independence, the little wooden shop adjourning Jonker Walk, sitting at the corner of Temple Street, amidst the rustic and quaint surroundings is a household name and the local-styled kopitiam, AIK CHEONG.
You will be lucky if you find out more legends and tales with their origin along Temple Street. That depends on who you ask.
Soon, the clans buildings appear in front the eyes and "Wow !", they are hand built and the acrchitecture as a whole, its intricate carvings, its designs, its signs and symbols, its beams and pillars, its doors and windows, project a very rich meaning modern power tools and machineries cannot copy.
Amidst the joy and the cheers, you can also feel the sentimental traditional customs and rites, the religious chanting and prayers on a unpredicted day.
On merchandise, they are of old values, some may no longer in use today in modern Malacca, some has become luxury items or items for the rich and famous.
On food, the internet carry a lot but one has got to truly know the gourmet, as a connoisseur of fine food, beverages and desserts await you.
On fun, pamper yourself from a kopitiam or a cafe to a princely Casa del Rio.
Soon, this place will hard rock more fun for you. Check Out ! the Yahoo News on HARD ROCK CAFE, MALACCA.
Malacca. Just another heritage site.
I steered right and an arch is above me when the statue of Mr. Asia at the other road on the left, stole a look from me. The road on the left is called Kubu Road. It is the statue of His Honourable Datuk Wira Gan Boon Leong, the former Mr. Asia. Read more about the Malaysian Bodybuilding in the Blog, WAY OF LIFE !
Datuk Wira is a Malay titles honouring someone with outstanding achievements.
Immediately after passing the arch, the image of Queen Victoria's fountain pop-up in my mind, and knowing very well, her fountain is about 1 kilometer right in front, standing proudly with the Christ Church and the Stadhuy as backgrounds.
Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Not forgetting the soft rest the foot against the accelerating pedal of the Malaysian made Proton Wira, the car was further slowed to the swaying of the many nationalists from many parts of the world, who are gazing on every inches of Jonker Walk.
All those nationalists are surely devoted to the interests and culture of one's nation, but each time on any other day, as I drove through Jonker Walk ... they gazed with love.
Learn more before you travel at Jonker Walk | Tourism Malaysia. Those nationalists are tourists.
99 feet stretch from the side mirror of the Proton Wira, is a row of very very old shops where the amazing home made Nyonya or some say, the Peranakan Pineapple Tart that can induce mouth watering condition and the tarts aroma would seduce you to melt them in your mouth.
Next to these tarts corners, is the Jonker Boutique Hotel, an old 3-storey concrete refurbished with modern amenities of 5-stars comfort. I sighed, "I must walk through Jonker Walk !". It is certainly to be only a normal discovery for a 3 hours walk best in daylight and better after dusk. To grab Jonker's heritage of old legends and tales, where not opt for a night long and check in at http://www.jonkerboutiquehotel.com/.
Enjoy the typical activities on street stage while you dine and fly them home in your captured video to quench your thirst on the unique legends and tales that kicked started from the past with the emergence of Paramewara, Admiral Cheng Ho, Saint Francis Xavier, Alfonso De Albuquerque, Ralph Ritch and the list does not stop here.
13 buses parked on side of the road leading to several fabulous clans buildings, nicely blocked the view of the Coffee Story. Before Malaya's independence, the little wooden shop adjourning Jonker Walk, sitting at the corner of Temple Street, amidst the rustic and quaint surroundings is a household name and the local-styled kopitiam, AIK CHEONG.
You will be lucky if you find out more legends and tales with their origin along Temple Street. That depends on who you ask.
Soon, the clans buildings appear in front the eyes and "Wow !", they are hand built and the acrchitecture as a whole, its intricate carvings, its designs, its signs and symbols, its beams and pillars, its doors and windows, project a very rich meaning modern power tools and machineries cannot copy.
Amidst the joy and the cheers, you can also feel the sentimental traditional customs and rites, the religious chanting and prayers on a unpredicted day.
On merchandise, they are of old values, some may no longer in use today in modern Malacca, some has become luxury items or items for the rich and famous.
On food, the internet carry a lot but one has got to truly know the gourmet, as a connoisseur of fine food, beverages and desserts await you.
On fun, pamper yourself from a kopitiam or a cafe to a princely Casa del Rio.
Soon, this place will hard rock more fun for you. Check Out ! the Yahoo News on HARD ROCK CAFE, MALACCA.
Malacca. Just another heritage site.
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