In the heart of Kuala Lumpur stand tall building and there beats techno music. All night long. After five days of enjoying late night music after long days of brilliant museums and fighting off monkeys and smelling around beautiful orchid and hibiscus gardens and visiting elegant mosques and ornamental temples, I have escaped the city.
Yesterday, I arrived in Melaka, a beautiful historic town on the sea. This town sits on the straigts of Melaka and four hundred years ago the sea was riddled with ships holding spices from Sri Lanka, silks from China, ceramics from Portugal and metals from India. Melaka was a major port full of action as the meeting place from ships sailing east to west and west to east for trade.
There are many temples and mosques, not unlike the rest of Malaysia. The mosque I visited today sits on the edge the sea, floating in the lapping water of the straights.
In addition to beautiful mosques, this port city has numerous churches among the temples. With so much to see, I have been lucky enough to get a bike from my guest house (a great guest house by the way) and have been pedaling around this historic, artsy little town; along the river, through china towns new and old, buy the Church of St. Francis Xavier, and to little India and to the sea.
There is no shortage of good food 'round here. And there's no shortage of new foods to try. This morning I had an Indonesian speciality: Jus Alpokat. Avocado juice with chocolate sauce. Mmmm. They blend the avo with sweet cream and ice and then swirl the glass with chocolate sauce. Tastes pretty Much like just what you are thinking: Mmmmm. Lunch was a triple decker peanut butter and banana with chocolate sauce thingy. And, same, as you can imagine, tastes how you think it would...SO GOOD! Two thumbs up, really, for the eating going on round here. Later, I tried Nyonya pineapple tarts, a Melaka specialty. Small in size, the tart has spice to its pastry and candied sweetness to the fruit filling. Different and delicious. Good thing the bike is around so I can get about town to do all this eating! Happy biking trails and happy eating...tomorrow I am off to Beijing. 
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