Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Melaka City, Malaysia - Boat Cruise on the Melaka River

My first boat cruise on the Melaka River was in 1997. It was more like a cruise on the 'Melaka Sewer', the river was heavily polluted and littered with rubbish. It also had a smell of rotten fish and the boat passed by countless rundown buildings. The boat I rode was an old wooden fishing boat that had seen better days, looked like waiting to sink and worst there was no life jackets!

The Melaka River today is cleaner and the areas along the banks have been restored and rejuvenated. The fiber glass boats are safer and passengers provided with life jackets. The cruise lasts 45 minutes passing historic buildings, old warehouses, mangrove swamps (monitor lizards are often spotted here), overhead bridges and a Malay village.

Melaka River by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

Cruise boat on the Melaka River, Malaysia
The cruise boat

Buildings along the Melaka River
Old buildings along the Melaka River


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