MELAKA - UNESCO World Heritage City since 2008. GPS: 2°11'58"N 102°15'02"E
Tourism-Melaka expresses our best wishes to all our visitors a very Happy Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2022.
May we look forward to eradicating the current Covid-19 pandemic which has disrupted our lives and livelihood over the passed 2 years.
All of us need to work together to keep ourselves and our families safe.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022
During the School holidays, your family can visit the Melaka Zoo.
The ticket prices are stated below.
For people who are interested to know about Dutch roots in Malaysia, do click on this link below.
https://www.malakkadutch.today/
https://www.malaysianbar.org.my/article/news/legal-and-general-news/general-news/malaysian-potpourri-the-dutch-community-surnames-clue-to-dutch-roots
Enjoy your read.
There are a number of newly renovated places you can stay in Melaka.
https://says.com/my/amp/lifestyle/where-to-stay-melaka-near-jonker
Check them out.
Melaka welcomes you always.
"𝑴𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒂, 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒂, 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒌𝒂, 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒒𝒂..."
This December 4th, the golden city of history and legend will once again resound with music!
Melaka Classics is proud to present 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗸𝗮,
a lecture-recital featuring music composed during the period of the height of Dutch influence.
Performed by the Kuala Lumpur Chamber Project, the evening will bring listeners back in time, echoing bygone strains off the walls of the iconic Christ Church Melaka.
Seats are extremely limited due to strict SOP adherence, so make sure you reserve your tickets today!
Admission: RM25
Date: 4th December 2021, 8:30pm
Venue: Christ Church Melaka, Jalan Gereja
Online ticket reservations: https://bit.ly/DutchMalakka2021
Contact for information: +6011-16391641
info@melakaclassics.com
*𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘰𝘸-𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴
**𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 7 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘖𝘗 𝘢𝘥𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
After almost two years of hibernation, we are finally returning with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Malaysia and Tourism Melaka.
This concert is part of a larger cluster of activities culminating in the Malakka Dutch Festival.
Do check out the other interesting and exciting events on the main website http://www.malakkadutch.today/
#melakaclassics #melakamusic #DutchMalakka
The upcoming Malakka Dutch Festival will hold its on-site programming at The Stadthuys building in historical Melaka. Photo: Filepic/The Star
Family histories are central to the upcoming Malakka Dutch Festival, a hybrid event which will take place online and on-site in Melaka from Nov 28 to Dec 4.
The Dutch Eurasian Families Of Today photo exhibition at the festival is a community effort featuring interviews, images and oral histories recorded with six participating families - Westerhout, Klass, Skelchy, Fredericks, Minjoot and De Witt clans - who will revisit and share their Dutch lineage in this project.
This unique photographic exhibition is about today's Malaysian and Singaporean families who can trace their Eurasian heritage back to a time known as "Dutch Malakka".
Dutch Malacca (1641-1825) was the longest period that the historical Melaka was under foreign control.
“The exhibition was born from the question ‘what did the Dutch leave behind?’ to which Melaka-raised author/researcher Dennis De Witt (who has Dutch ancestry) said ‘they left people like him behind’. It will hopefully be something interesting, engaging and relatable, an exhibition for Malaysian families to learn about the history and heritage of the Dutch who were in Melaka, told through the stories of modern day Dutch Eurasian families who have roots from Melaka,” says Melissa Chan, The Bendahari director and one of the key coordinators of the Malakka Dutch Festival.
Organised by cultural and creative arts hub The Bendahari together with Nottingham University Malaysia’s Faculty of Computer Science, the Dutch Eurasian Families Of Today photo exhibition is one of the festival's highlights.
Chan adds that the pandemic lockdowns have helped expand the reach of the families who are part of this project. The Malakka Dutch Festival was initially planned in March this year, but it had to be postponed due to the pandemic situation.
“The lockdowns gave more time to cover more ground and present the information well. Because of this, we could interview families based in Britain and Singapore,” says Chan.
The Malakka Dutch Festival, which starts on Nov 28, is organised by Tourism Melaka and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands here.
“Despite the pandemic affecting our travels, we are thankful in this digital age to be able to still share our beautiful city with the world through the online exhibition component, and to see local visitors at our physical event at Stadthuys (situated in Melaka's Dutch Red Square)," says Saari Basiron, general manager of Tourism Melaka.
“We are happy to research and showcase the Dutch cultural heritage in Melaka and how this heritage manifests today. You can find out more by taking a virtual tour around amongst others St Paul’s Church and ‘The Stadthuys’ to learn more about the Dutch presence in Melaka,” outlines a statement from the Dutch embassy.
Besides the photo exhibition, other events include music events (The Music Of Dutch Malakka: Echoes Of The Past and An Evening In Dutch Malakka), tours and walks (A Stroll Through Heeren and ‘The Streets Of Dutch Malakka': Virtual Tour), a forum (Bridging The Past To The Present), a food bazaar with Dutch and Dutch Eurasian cuisine, and traditional cultures.
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The Entrapment movie was shot partly in Malacca river
Starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones.
There was a scene of Malacca River with the Twin Towers at the background.
This view caused the Malaysian government to develop the Malacca River via Tourism Malaysia funds.
This is the new rejuvenated Malacca river you see today.
60 things you can do in Melaka
Go to this site to view 60 things you can do in Melaka.
https://thesmartlocal.com/malaysia/things-to-do-in-melaka/
Enjoy your stay in Melaka. Just cannot do all these in one trip. So, come again or stay longer.
One can also migrate to Melaka and make her your permanent home.
MELAKA: At lunch-time on a sweltering Tuesday afternoon this week, places were set, cutlery and crockery shining, but the seats were empty.There were no customers at the Nyonya restaurant in Melaka Raya town, only an elderly couple dusting and cleaning.
The restaurant used to be perpetually full with customers from noon to night, said the 71-year-old man, who wanted to only be known as Peter.
But those were the days before the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lunchtime crowd has disappeared and the dinner clientele seem to be staying away, even though restrictions have been lifted and dining-in is allowed again, for the fully vaccinated. Now the couple close up for the night at 7pm, where they used to stay open until late.
“I don’t know where my customers went. I think some might have died,” said Peter in jest. He has very few to no customers, as evidenced by the lull when FMT visited.
Those who do come would usually opt for takeaways.
The much-awaited reopening of interstate travel has done little to help, with just a slight improvement in the number of customers on weekends.
After operating the business for 26 years now, Peter and his wife of 31 years, who does the cooking, are thinking about selling it off.
But the jovial “Uncle” said it beat life under lockdown, which had forced him to resort to collecting discarded cardboard boxes and tin cans for recycling, just to make a few bucks to sustain himself and his wife.
The couple had even relied on food aid packages to survive.Thankfully, he said, things are a little better on weekends, with the revival of Jonker Walk a big help for Ah Chai.
Having been a rider of the colourful Melaka trishaw for 38 years now, he sees no other way to earn a decent income, adding that “as long as I can still cycle, I will cycle”.
Things are looking up, though, for caricature artist Shahril Anuar who has been plying his trade by the Melaka river near the Stadthuys for 10 years now. He can earn up to RM400 on a good day and nearly double on weekends.
The lockdown turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him, as it forced the 42-year-old to venture into setting up a nasi minyak stall. Now, he runs both businesses with the help of some friends.
“It’s like Covid-19 gave us the spark to start another business, instead of sticking to just one,” he said.
While Shahril seemed less concerned about the elections, as he can fall back on his food business should restrictions be re-enforced, Peter and Ah Chai are holding out hope that it would not lead to another surge of Covid-19 cases or, worse, another lockdown.
Ah Chai said another movement control order would be very hard to deal with, adding that he had already been forced to borrow money from friends during the last lockdown.
“If they announce an MCO again, it will be hard to make a living. If my trishaw breaks down, I’ll have no money to fix it up. If my motorcycle breaks down, it will be even worse,” he said, his smile turning into a frown.
Nur, a tourist from Cheras, also hoped any lockdown could be prevented through stringent SOPs during the polls, since Putrajaya has only just started allowing interstate travel and domestic tourism.
“We don’t want what happened in Sabah to be repeated. The state elections caused a lockdown of the whole of Malaysia eventually,” said the mother of one, who was glad to finally be out and about with her family again.
Tourism-melaka extend our best wishes in the festival of lights tomorrow.
Happy Deepavali.
Hopefully my dream of a cable car from Teluk Mas to Pulau Besar, Melaka can become a reality. The distance between the two sites is only 5.5km only.
This proposal can be used by locals and tourists.
Private investors can be invited.
Please be informed that Interstate travel will be allowed from tomorrow, 11th. October 2021.
SOP must still be followed.
Let us all to continue to stay safe when we travel outstation.
Plans are being made to redevelop the current Melaka Sentral. Estimated costs of redevelopment is about RM 3.5 billion.
MELAKA: The redevelopment of the Melaka Sentral transport terminal, which cost RM3.5 billion to build in Peringgit, will adapt specifications of a "post-Covid-19" design and use 5G technology.
Goodyield Development Sdn Bhd (GDSB) chief executive officer Wellen Remy Rizal said the transportation hub and commercial centre was built with the needs of the new norms of society in curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection.
Tourism-Melaka has created a new sidebar for our Melaka Podcasts.
Interesting audio podcasts about Melaka will be posted here.
Visual impaired people can click on our podcasts so that you can hear about the various sites and events happening in Melaka.
Just recently, news of several favourite eateries in Klang Valley have bid farewell. Today, the sad news continues on with this popular tourist spot in Malacca for sumptuous and iconic satay celup announcing that it will too be closing its doors soon.
According to a FB post on Capitol Satay Celup, they announced that they will be shutting down the 30-year-old shop within two months time. Even so, they are will still be opened for dine-in for these last two months with strict SOPs in place. They also thanked visitors for their support throughout the years.
This RM 2 million archway at Jalan Bendahara leads into Little India of Melaka.
This is a new tourism attraction.
MELAKA: Melaka Zoo expects to reopen its doors to the public by the end of this week after almost ten months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
"We are anticipating welcoming visitors by this Friday (Oct 1)," said Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council president Datuk Shadan Othman.
He said the reopening depends on the state government's decision on the exact date and if the zoo should only allow domestic visitors at the initial stage.
"The zoo management will only allow adults who have been fully vaccinated," he said after accompanying Melaka state secretary Datuk Kamel Mohamad to check on preparations at the Melaka Zoo on Sunday (Sept 26).
Shadan said 100% of zoo employees had been vaccinated.
"We will abide by the standard operating procedure (SOP) set by the National Security Council when we reopen," he said.
He said they were expecting about 700 visitors on the first day of the reopening.
Meanwhile, the zoo also witnessed the birth of a pair of white-handed gibbons (hylobates lar).
Shadan said the primates were born two weeks ago and their birth was a milestone for the Melaka Zoo. He said their genders have yet to be determined.
"Melaka Zoo is probably the first in Asia to witness the birth of twins from an endangered species, as confirmed by animal experts from a local university," he said.
Happy Mid Autumn Festival commonly known here as Moon cake Festival.
Do you know why the rabbit is the mascot in this festival? Here is why.
The jade rabbit is the main character in one of the famous Chinese Mid-Autumn stories.
Once upon a time, there were three animals living in a forest: a fox, a rabbit, and a monkey.
Three immortals, pretending to be old beggars, went through the forest asking for food. The fox and the monkey quickly offered them food.
The rabbit, who had no food but very pious, felt guilty. She said, “I’m so sorry I couldn’t offer any food to help you, but I can give myself,” and jumped into the fire.
The three immortals were moved by the rabbit’s sacrifice, and decided to make the rabbit an immortal, sending her to live in the Moon Palace with Goddess Chang E.
Therefore nowadays when Chinese people decorate Mid-Autumn Festival, they would use rabbit as one of the decorations.
Enjoy.
