Day 47: Arrival in Malaysia

This week is recess week, which is basically my spring break. So I booked a three day trip to Malacca in Malaysia. It was my first time doing so, but everything seems to have worked out okay. I rode a bus here from Singapore. It was a four hour journey, but that was no big deal since I'm used to being in a car for ten hours when riding to Iowa State University.

The hotel I'm staying at is called the Bayou Lagoon Park Resort, and I managed to get a decent room price. It's nothing fancy, but it's not bad, either. I even have my own balcony! There's also a water park here (though it's nothing extravagant), some bike paths, and there's a zoo within a few kilometers.

Check-in wasn't until 3 PM, but my bus arrived at Malacca Sentral Bus Station (yes, that's how it's spelled) at 1 PM, so I just hung around there until it was closer to check-in time, and then I chartered a taxi. There are English-speakers around here, which is nice, but most of the street signs and advertisements are only in Malay. While riding in the taxi, I was surprised to find that some of the stoplights have timers that show how much time will pass until they change. That's actually a pretty neat idea, at least in my opinion.

I mostly hung around the hotel area because I didn't want to end up hopelessly lost somewhere so late in the afternoon. There's some places to eat right in my hotel, so dinner was covered.

There's not much footage today, but hopefully that will be rectified tomorrow. Some of this is from when I was riding the bus, and some of it is from around my hotel area. It isn't the nicest-looking place, but remember, this is Malaysia, not Singapore.