Malacca

Beside the river, behind the remnants of the Portuguese fort:

The Dutch town hall, Stadthuys, and Christ Church:

There are pineapple tarts for sale everywhere. I love these things, but alas, we only managed to buy some bad ones...

We did, however, find an excellent local eatery that was overflowing with people and was far too hot. But we put up with all this for a couple of great laksas, and a superlative cendol (the dessert):

There's a shoe store here where they used to make the traditional footwear for women who had bound feet ("lotus feet"). YIKES!

Weird ugly statues at a temple:

Gravesite of a semi-mythical character:

St Paul's Church, at the top of the hill:

The remains of the guardhouse, Porta De Santiago, from Fort A Famosa:

Tasty dried lizard for lunch?

Giraffe at the Cheng Ho museum. Unbelievably, early Chinese explorers managed to ship one of these from Africa to China!