Night River Cruise at Malacca (Melaka) River (photos sharing)

After our dinner, we continued our next itinerary - Nigh River Cruise on Melaka River. Tickets purchased from the Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel reception and we got RM1 discount on each ticket. The hotel has their own Jetty (N2.19970 E102.24829) just behind the building, it Only accessible for hotel guests. There are 3 times per day that the boat pick up passengers from the hotel's jetty, please check with the hotel staffs for the timing.
Our previous Melaka River Cruise was on year 2008, that was on the day time, so we decided to try it on the night time again...

The first 'colourful' bridge appreared in front of us was the Hang Tuah Bridge...the boat went towards the north direction when it began...

Hang Tuah Bridge at night

The lighting was so colourful during the night...then it passed by the 'Eye of Melaka'...

Eye Of Melaka

Honestly I like the colourful lightings reflection very much from the water during the boat cruise...

Colourful lightings reflection from the water...

When the boat almost reached the end up north, I saw this some kind of LRT station and the track was build along the riverbank, interesting! I will try it soon in the future...

The LRT station at the end of the river cuise...

The boat made a U-Turn once it reached the end point and we were cruise down south again...

The colourful Flat along the river...

The boat passed by a block of flat which lighted up with all the colourful florescent tube! This was the most colourful flat I ever seen in Malaysia!

Follow by few bridges that really look nice during the night...

Nice lightings on the bridges

Back to the Colourful Hang Tuah Bridge again...

Jambatan Pasar - The Market Bridge

After the Market Bridge, there are many murals painted on the colonial buildings...

Beautiful and attractive murals nicely painted on the wall...

The boat cruise through the colonial buildings and it reached the Popular Hard Rock Cafe of Malacca which is just operated few months ago...

Hard Rock Cafe of Malacca

The lighted pathway along the river

This nicely lighted pathway along the riverside and accompany with the Britsh Era colonial buildings...

The boat turn back and cruise towards the hotel's jetty, that end our 45 minutes Night River Cruise on the Malacca River. It was a total different experience when taking the river cruise on day time and night time...I prefer the night cruise because of the colourful lightings...

Have you try it before?

Night River Cruise on Malacca River

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Loaction map of the Jetty of Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel at Malacca

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Walk along the Riverside of Malacca (Melaka) River (photos sharing)

Before dinner, we strolling along the Malacca River just behind the Best Western Wana Riverside Hotel. The starting point was from the Musical Fountain (N2.20013 E102.24806), the musical fountain start to 'Dance' every evening from 8pm - 11pm, if I'm not mistaken...

The riverside of Malacca River

It was a cool evening and really relaxing walking...

The buildings cross the river...

There was a bridge not too far away from us, it's the Jambatan Pasar (Market Bridge). So we decided to cross to the other side of the riverbank...

The boats for Melaka River Cruise just passed by the Jambatan Pasar...

The River Cruise's boat of Malacca river

Jambatan Pasar (Market Bridge)

Once we crossed the bridge, there were many murals painted on the building's wall...yes, many of them...

Murals along the Malacca river

If time allow, I would like to capture all the murals photo in the area...there were really nice and some of them reflected the culture of Malacca (Melaka). By sitting at the riverbank and admiring the murals was one of my enjoyment during the evening...

After the buildings full of the street arts, we came to a row of cafes and pubs, these are the nightlife area of Jalan Kampung Hulu of Melaka town. Well, it's nice to have a cold draught beer while enjoy the cool breeze along the Malacca River...at least for me. :)

Riverbank Music Cafe at Jalan Kampung Hulu (photo taken at the backyard)

The cafe above was Not the only one but with full row of it...until the last shop was a Chinese Seafood Restaurant, the restaurant business was good while we passed by...I guess the seafood here must be delicious! :)

After the seafood restaurant, we reached the Hang Tuah Bridge, we decided to cross it again and back to the hotel because it was about dinner time...

The Hang Tuah Bridge of Malacca (Melaka)

Standing on the bridge and looking around on the both riverbank, hmm...this was the 'River' which started the Malacca (Melaka) Empire during the 1600s...and also the began of the Tanah Melayu which is Malaysia today.

Partly view of the Jalan Munshi Abdullah during the evening...

Once we walk across the bridge, the row of pubs and cafes started to light up. Colourful and Nice!

The row of pubs and cafes along the Jalan Kampung Hulu

We stopped at the place where we started and the whole riverbank walk is around 3.6km (with the proper pathway), which I'm intend to do it in the near future. It was really nice and enjoying walk along the river, where I can slowly view on all the colonial buildings which build on half century ago...

Beside this scenery, it is also a Good place for long exposure photography! Which I'm going to try it on the late evening...

Have you every try it? If no, please try it on your next visit to Malacca, you will like it! :)

Sunset taken on the Market Bridge of Melaka River

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The location map of the start point of our walk along the Malacca River

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Cherating River Cruise at Cherating, Kuantan - Pahang.

Once we finished the simple breakfast from the Legend Resort, all of us heading to Cherating. Yes! We were going for the Cherating River's Cruise. The bus stop at the parking area, and we walked for about 200 meter to the jetty under the Cherating's sun...nice! :)

Part of our team...

We were directed to this jetty and it's belong to Hafiz Cherating Activities (N4.12713 E103.39124) which provide all kind of river activities to the visitors.

The river cruise jetty at Cherating

Before the river cruise, we attended the short safety briefing...and everyone was excited to get into the boat...

The guy who given the safety briefing...

I was attracted by the scenery of the river especially on the sunny day! The river is well maintained and Clean!

Cherating River

And our boat below...

Once everyone ready with the life jackets, we got into the boat one-by-one...well, we need total of 4 boats for the ride. :)

The young ladies (wa-wa) on the same boat...:)

I like this pink canoe!

Everyone was busy taking photos once on the boat, same as our organizer - Mr Anthony. :)

Anthony on action!

The boat of Cherating River Cruise

The journey started...
The boatman spoke very fluent English and provide us many useful information while on the boat...we cruise very slow and enjoyed along the river...

The nature scenery of Cherating River was marvelous!
Camera shutter's sound can be heard almost everywhere...let me show you some photos...

I like the way they built their houses along the river bank...I wish I can have one too! :)

After awhile, we passed by the Famous pub in Cherating - The Little Bali pub and Bistro which is crowded on every evening...

The Little Bali pub and Bistro

The mangrove trees and the roots...

We met a guy that he just caught the crab while we passed by...

The guy who caught a crab with his special net...

Saw this beautiful dead mangrove tree...

Beautiful dead mangrove tree

After a while, our boats went into another small river named - Belat River (N4.13782 E103.39514). The atmosphere was really quite and calm, I felt peaceful...

Entering Belat River of Cherating River...

There were many mangrove snakes, squirrels, monkeys and some mangrove crabs, fishes at the Belat River...the roots of the mangrove tree is different (photo below) from what I experienced at Kukup Island, Johor.

The roots of the mangrove trees look like wave...

There was a interesting part within our journey...we were shocked by the mangrove snake on the tree while the boat approching...:)

There was a mangrove snake on the tree!

And the expression from our teammates....! :)

"Snake on top of you!" We shouted...:)

The Mangrove snake in black and yellow stripes hiding behind the leafs...

The camera man was from TV2...

While we on the way back, the boatman speed up the boat to the estuary of Cherating river...

When the boat speed up, it created a nice scene of the wave...

The total river cruise took about an hour, we were enjoyed the cruise very much! It was a nice nature trip for us at Cherating.

Beside the river cruise, you can have 'fireflies watching, fishing, river to sea, snorkeling at the island trips and river canoing' from the Hafiz River Activities Center. You can find out more information from the Legend Resort Cherating.
Do try out the activities if you happen at Cherating!

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Location map of the jetty for Cherating River Cruise

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