Melaka Day 49 – Exploring Chinatown and Spa Day

• I get up and packed.
• I left the hostel with all my bags and went to a local food stand where I got some Malaysian coffee to start the day.
• I went to the usual bus station, however they didn’t have buses to Melaka. So with bad directions I walked across Chinatown to where the previous person said the station was, but was wrong… So I had to walk more and finally got there.
• The bus was a converted city bus with a smell and steel floors, considering that I was expecting this quality the whole trip and for the first time had my expectations, met I was happily content.
• The bus stop was very cool where you had to enter on the second story, buy a ticket and go down the stairs to individual bus terminals for departure, like an airport almost, except no random searches of anyone with a beard.
• I arrived at a big shopping bizarre when the bus stopped and took a taxi to my hostel.
• I arrived at the hostel early and met the owner named Steve. There were 2 girls from Holland and a guy that were having coffee in the kitchen and I joined them.
• Elizabeth arrived and introduced herself. After the other people left Elizabeth and I went next door to the big hotel and went to their spa. I went into the hot tub and she used the sauna.
• We went back to the hostel for a bit before heading out on the town.
• We went to Chinatown for dinner and found a little place
• I got up on a stage that was constructed in the middle of the street and began telling corny jokes…. Nobody else laughed, comedy in Asia is not my calling.
• After we were done with dinner we played around in a Chinese food store and explored a house that was being constructed.
• We walked along the river and took pictures next to a tilted church; unfortunately her camera ran out of batteries.
• We headed down the river to a shop and got some ice cream for our walk back.
• We hung out up in the loft and watched Jumper until our 3^rd person who was staying there joined us. Rebecca, Elizabeth and I went to go to bed and check the bed for bugs because some girls were bit the night before.
• I found ticks in my bed and so did the girls, I decided to sleep upstairs in the loft and they got another bedroom.
• Elizabeth ended up being bit from the other bed and I just got some mosquito bites.