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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Shuishe Pier at Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan (水社碼頭, 日月潭)

If you travel with tourist package, I believe the Sun Moon Lake Ferry ticket is included. If not, you can refer the list below...

The ticket price.

The standard ticket is TWD300.00 which is about MYR31.50. And with no time limit, the boats will drop and pickup passengers every 30 minutes from each jetty. There are many company operating the Ferry business here, so make sure you aboard the right ferry. :)

All of us got a Red stamp in our hand before we get into the ferry. That was the pass. :)

Red stamp in our hand. (That was not my hand!)

We leaded to the correct jetty by the boat man, and this was it! The boat was waiting...

It had 2 sessions in the ferry which are indoor and outdoor area...we chose the outdoor area for better view.

The indoor sitting area

The outdoor area

Too bad we were not allow to access to the roof...
I captured the beautiful scene of Shuishe town before the boat leave...

Shuishe town of Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan

After a while, the 6 stars (they claimed) hotels appeared in front of us...and it was not One but Two...does it looks like one of the Famous building in the familiar place?! According to the boatman, the minimum room rate per night is TWD15,000.00.

The ferry passed by A Small island in the lake called - Lalu Island. It's really small, and tourists are Not allow to step in, do you notice the Golden Owl? That was the Lucky Bird for Ita Thao peoples...

Lalu Island of Sun Moon Lake

Notice the Golden Owl? :)

It was Only about 15 minutes, we dropped by the 1st tourist attraction called - Syuan Guang Temple. And everyone can take their sweet time to visit it, just remember the pier number to get back to the ferry which stop by every 30 minutes...

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