Melaka, together with George Town in Penang, were inscribed as a World Heritage Site on July 7th, 2008. This would be 16 years ago in 2024? As you can see on our feed, we love visiting both Melaka and Penang. So, on July 8th, 2024, we went to Melaka again to celebrate, in a way, the anniversary of its inscription as a World Heritage Site. We parked our car near Kafe Tuju, had our yummy Padang Bowl lunch there, and then proceeded to Jalan-jalan.














Below is from UNESCO. More here.
Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible. With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch periods beginning in the early 16th century. Featuring residential and commercial buildings, George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. The two towns constitute a unique architectural and cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.