T9.) Malacca Heritage Tour (8 Hour) TOUR PRICE (PER PAX) = RM380.00 (MIN 4)
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Tour Code : T9.) Malacca Heritage Tour (8 Hour) TOUR PRICE (PER PAX) = RM380.00 (MIN 4) 1.) Your Malacca day trip first stop is Saint Peter Church. The church was built-in 1710 by Portuguese people with support and contribution from Dutch community. The land was donated by Dutch gentleman name Franz Amboer who became a Catholic. After 300 years since the church was built is still used for religious ceremonies especially wedding ceremony. The oldest part of the Church is the bell. The bell was cast in India dated 1608. 2.) The Maritime Museum ,The giant replica of the Portuguese Galleon Flor De La Mar is certainly an eye-catcher. The huge wooden ship was built in the early 1990s and is patterned on the Portuguese galleons that took control of Melaka in the early sixteenth century. The real Flor de La Mar sank off the coast of Sumatra in 1511 while carrying a load of treasure from Melaka back to Portugal. While relatively authentic on the outside, the interior of the ship has been designed around the museum exhibits, which cover the early Portuguese period of Melaka's history as a center of trade in Southeast Asia. 3.) A’Famosa Fort - Portuguese built the fortress in 1521 known as A Famosa to protect them from attack by Sultan of Malacca and local people to seize Malacca. When Dutch took over Malacca they rebuilt the fortress become thicker and higher. During the Dutch revolution British took over controlling Malacca temporary and worry the fortress will be use by French they decided to demolished it. 4.) Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum built in 1896, restored houses arranged to resemble a conventional 19th-century Baba-Nyonya residence. Excellent examples of Chinese-Palladian style, these townhouses were transformed into a traditional Peranakan museum in later years; connected by a common covered footway, the museum features hand-painted tiles, elaborately carved teakwood outer swing doors and a sturdier internal door which provides extra security. 5.) Cheng Ho Cultural Museum - Historical records reveal that Ming Dynasty’s Admiral Cheng Ho (Zheng He) visited Melaka (Malacca) at least five times during his famous seven voyages to the Western Ocean (Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa). He set up a huge warehouse complex along the northern side of the Melaka River. Thus far, there has been no serious investigation made on this fascinating topic. Some people claim that Zheng He’s warehouse was located in Bukit Cina because there is a Sampo (or San Bao referring to Cheng Ho) well and the area is named Sampo Hill. However, many others do not agree. The exact location of Cheng Ho’s warehouse is certainly worth serious study. 6.) Melaka Sultanate Palace - During the golden age Malacca Sultanate Government, apart from the fame part of Malacca. They are also good in constructing a building using limited tools. A very good example, the replica of Malacca Sultanate was built without using any nails. The architecture of this palace is taken from the reign of Sultan Mansor Syah. Sultan Mansor Syah ruled Malacca from 1456 – 1477. Currently the Palace also known as Culture Museum. 7.) Saint Paul Church - During Malacca day trip, we will do a little bit of walking and climbing. To visit Saint Paul Church we need to climb 180 steps of Saint Paul Hill. Tourist is advice to wearing a good walking shoes. Saint Paul Church originally just a small chapel built in 1521 by Captain Duarte Coelho as gratitude to Virgin Mary after he survived from a storm on the way to Malacca from Goa, India. In here, tourist able to see the open grave belongs to Saint Francis Xavier and grave slap written in few language included Latin. 8.) Baba Nyonya Restaurant - Lunch will be served at the Baba Nyonya Restaurant. Baba and Nyonya are descendant straits born Chinese who intermarried with local people either from Siam, Malaysia or Sumatra Island. The women known as Nyonya while the man called Baba. Most of them came from Hokkien China migrate to Malaysia or Indonesia in 15th and 16th century. To know Baba and Nyonya descendant closer, we visit Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum situated in Millionaire row. Baba and Nyonya Heritage Museum are combination two blocks of house aged 120 years belongs to Chan family. We need to be at the Baba Nyonya Museum at a specific time for a full guide tour. No photography or video recording are allowing during the tour to Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum 9.) Cheng Hoon Teng Temple - Our next destination during Malacca day trip is Cheng Hoon Teng Temple, the oldest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. Its was built by Kapitan Tay Kie Ki in 1645. The temple was heavily influenced by architectural style and craftsmanship of Southern Chinese, mainly from Fujian and Guangdong. Besides Kapitan Tay Kie Ki, others Kapitan such Kapitan Lee Wei King, Kapitan Chan Lak Kua and Kapitan Chua Su Cheong also contribute to the construction of this temple. This temple consists few prayer room, the biggest prayer halls dedicated to god of mercy ”Kuan Yi”. 10.) Jonker Street - Our Malacca day trip from Kuala Lumpur itinerary is privately organized. Indeed, this giving more flexibility to tourist spending their time during the trip. An sample time will be giving to visitor to roaming in Jonker Street either for shopping or sightseeing. 11.) Dutch Square - consisted Stadhuys Building, Chris Church and Victoria Fountain. In here all the building was painted in red color, no one know why the building here had a red color. There are few theory about its, one of the theory says during British colonize Malacca they want to identify the building built by Dutch and by British. 12.) Strait Malacca Mosque - Before we conclude day tour to Malacca from Kuala Lumpur, we stop at Strait Malacca Mosque for a photo stop. This is a perfect spot for a photo shoot and for tourist to feel and see how the longest straits in the world looks. Situated at the man-made island known as Malacca Island, the cost to build the mosque estimated about RM10 million and the official opening was done in 2006. End of Malacca day trip itinerary. 1~NIGHT ACCOMODATION BASED ON TWN/DBL SHARING ROOM AS HOTEL LISTED :- 906 Riverside Hotel / Midcity Hotel Melaka / Herald Hotel / M Hotel (3 Star) .