Jonker Walk of Malacca

Jonker Walk is one of the tourist attraction in Malacca or Melaka and open only during week end. Melaka is also one of the very popular week end destination among Singaporean.

Tourism is a booming industry in Malacca and the road are getting too congested during week end. With this bike sharing initiative, exploring Malacca is now getting easier.

If you can't ride, just hire a beca or trishaw. This make good Instagram photo too even if is just a short distance.

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and is the year of rooster according to Chinese calendar. This giant rooster mark the start of the famous Jonker Walk.

 The whole area is decorated with Chinese New Year theme.

This shop use the very cute cartoon to attract customers to step into their shop.

 If you are looking to buy souvenirs, this is the right place. From festive light,

 to T-Shirt

 and even Poke ball!

 is a good place to start your next Christmas present shopping.

 As with all night market, food is another must have. This is the new food corner that worth the stop.

 Long que is formed waiting to taste this local delicacy - popiah.

I order some satay (bbq chicken)

The lantern are lighted up when the night falls and add the vibrancy of Jonker Walk.

 Is good to spend some time watching the cultural show while enjoying your favorite snacks.

As with many big cities around the world, Malacca was founded beside a river and this river was a major trade post during colonial time.

From a busy port to a quiet town and is now back to it's previous glory.

Durian Fest at Gunung Pulai

Situated about 20km from Johor Bahru, Gunung Pulai is one of the many popular week end outing destination for locals and among Singaporean too!

Few of us decided to pay a visit to this mountain that is visible from Singapore too last Saturday. Driving from Singapore took slightly more than an hour. We set off early in the morning and arrived at the entrance of Gunung Pulai around 6.45am.

The car park is already half filled when we arrived. When we step out of the car, I smells my favourite fruit - durian!!! Before we starts our trekking up the mountain I already have plan after the walk. That is to enjoy my favourite fruits from the original source! Haaa....

We slowly make our way up the mountain that is 700m high. The entire trail is about 5km & there is a waterfall there too. It was a very pleasant walk, the air is fresh, the birds are chipping everywhere and most importantly, the people there are very, very friendly! Although is our first time there, we are like walking in the garden of neighbourhood. There is no strangers, everyone that we met along the way will smile & greet each other!

As we need to return to Singapore before 1.30pm, we didn't walk to the summit. We stay around 1km mark of the trail for birding. Although we spent just about 2 hours there, we saw lots of birds.

There are lots of fruits tree around the car park. Such as this mangostine tree.
Star fruits

Rambutans!!! And the fruits are so low that you can just pluck it when it is ripe.

and durian tree!

Before we head back to Singapore, we have these durians fresh from the tree. What a fulfilling trip. :)