{"id":14588,"date":"2023-01-29T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:01:55","slug":"along-the-way-to-borneo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/trips-asia\/other-trips\/south-east-asia-2023\/along-the-way-to-borneo\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the way to Borneo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During this segment, we got re-introduced to book buses, flights and the ever so convenient Grab rides (the Uber equivalent in SEA). Navigating different bus and airport terminals always seem to present some uniqueness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An overview of our trip itinerary is here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023.01.22 – Singapore \u2013 Melaka (Malaysia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had learned over the past few days that the weather forecast seemed to change every 15 minutes or so in this part of the world. It was no different this morning, as we were about to step out of our hotel and walk to the nearby bus terminal, we were confronted to a heavy rain downpour. We decided to wait 15 minutes before calling a taxi. As we had hoped, the rain eventually stopped. We managed to start walking to the bus terminal and we even stopped at McDonald’s for a quick breakfast along the way. Our international bus left promptly at 8:45am. Within an hour, we had gone through Singapore’s exit checkpoint as well as Malaysia’s Immigration control. The vehicle traffic on the road was heavy at times – most likely as a result of the Chinese New Year. Once in Melaka, we walked from our bus drop-off a mere 400m to our hotel. We were quite impressed by our nice modern hotel which we learned it had been opened for less than a year. Festivities for the Chinese New Year were in full swing in town. As most (if not all) money exchange offices appeared to be closed today, we opted to withdraw some local currency at an ATM. We learned later on that our $200cdn withdrawal incurred almost $15cdn worth of bank charges (mostly from the local bank). After our dinner, we enjoyed walking along the very busy Jonker Street Night Market. Somewhat tired, we looked forward to a good night sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n