Places to visit in Melaka, Malaysia
13 places to visit in Melaka, Malaysia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Stadthuys, A Famosa, Cheng Hoon Teng Temple and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Melaka volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage site · 1 Famous place to visit · 11 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Melaka (1)
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Stadthuys
The red town hall the Dutch built in 1650 as the office of their governor, the centrepiece of the square known as Red Square. Under the British it served as treasury, post office and government offices, and the red clock tower stands just beside it.
Famous places to visit in Melaka (1)
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A Famosa
What remains of the fortress the Portuguese built around 1512, after the Dutch took the city and the British tore the rest down in 1811. The Porta de Santiago gateway still stands at the foot of St Paul's Hill, with the rebuilt Middelburg Bastion nearby.
Hidden gems in Melaka (11)
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Cheng Hoon Teng Temple
The oldest functioning temple in Malaysia, where Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism are practised under one roof. It stands in Malacca's old quarter on the stretch known as Harmony Street, close to a mosque and a Hindu temple.
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Christ Church
An Anglican church built by the Dutch in the eighteenth century, painted the same deep red as the Stadthuys beside it on Red Square. It is the oldest Protestant church in Malaysia that still holds services.
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Jonker Street Night Market
The night market that takes over Jonker Street, the old heart of Malacca's Chinatown, filling it with food stalls, trinket sellers and slow-moving crowds. Old shophouses line both sides, and the stalls run between them.
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Malacca River
The river that flows through the middle of Malacca state and its old city, a vital trade route in the fifteenth century heyday of the Malacca Sultanate. Boats now run along it past old warehouses, bridges and painted walls.
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Malacca Straits Mosque
A mosque on the man-made Malacca Island, opened in 2006 and built with a mix of Middle Eastern and Malay craftsmanship. When the water is high it reaches the walls, and the building seems to float on the strait.
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Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum
A timber reconstruction of the palace of the Malacca Sultanate at the foot of St Paul's Hill, worked out from descriptions in the Malay Annals. It is built of hardwood and belian wood held together with wooden pegs, and was begun in 1984.
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Portuguese Settlement
A seaside neighbourhood in Ujong Pasir that is home to the Kristang, Malacca's Portuguese-Eurasian community. Their Creole language and Catholic festivals live on here, along with seafood stalls by the water.
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Sri Poyatha Moorthi Temple
The oldest Hindu temple still standing intact in Malaysia, and one of the oldest in use anywhere in maritime Southeast Asia. It belongs to the Chitty, Malacca's Tamil-descended Peranakan community, and is one of the few Chitty temples left.
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St Paul's Church
A roofless church on the summit of St Paul's Hill, first built between 1566 and 1590. It is the oldest European building east of India, and its walls shelter old Dutch tombstones, with the town and the strait spread out below.
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Taming Sari Tower
A 110 metre gyro tower whose cabin turns as it rises, giving a full circle view over Malacca City and beyond. Opened in 2008, its design takes after Taming Sari, the legendary keris of Hang Tuah.
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Tanjung Tuan
A forested headland the Portuguese called Cape Rachado, the broken cape, a piece of Malacca that juts out beside Port Dickson in Negeri Sembilan. An old lighthouse stands at its tip above the Strait of Malacca.
Collecting in Melaka
What are the best places to visit in Melaka?
LOQAH lists 13 places in Melaka. The best known include Stadthuys, A Famosa, Cheng Hoon Teng Temple, Christ Church and Jonker Street Night Market. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Melaka?
13, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Melaka?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Melaka before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Melaka and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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