- Day 17 -

Places of Worship

Malacca is known to be a cultural town, and this is probably why...


View from St Paul's Church on the hill


St Paul's Church - the ruins...


St Francis Xavier's Church


The houses beside the river...


Another nice building... Haha...

Shopping Malls!

After visiting most of the attractions and historical sites in Malacca, we decided to experience the consumer aspects of Malacca in exploring the most common type of entertainment - exploring around the shopping mall. The shopping mall is perhaps one of the few in the whole of Malacca town, and we had to walk about 30 minutes from where we stayed.

The mall wasn't anything impressive though... It was like any common shopping malls, complete with shops selling fashion accesssories, clothing stores, cinema, gaming arcade and restaurants. Not particularly large as well.

On the topic of shopping malls, it's interesting to realise how much we all are dependent on shopping malls nowadays. As our professor nicely put it, this is the age of malls. Malls are now the conglomeration of many of the things teenagers spend time and money on - shopping, food, movies, entertainment... Or course, for us, malls were also welcomed sites of air-conditioning else we would be melting in the hot tropical weather. Even us Singaporean students founf the weather quite unbearable.