It’s been pretty much an uneventful day today. After getting up and expecting a walking tour of the city I’ve got to say that I’m feeling a little bit unsatisfied. Last night when I asked if anyone was going to go on the walking tour, everybody said no. They said that our leader walked too fast and didn’t really explain anything. I agreed, but I thought that he’d show us some cool stuff today. Guess what? They were right. So after less than an hour of walking to a town square and back to the hotel, I was sitting in Starbucks doing my usual “blog” thing.

Now I’m on a bus to Melaka, Malaysia. It’s supposed to take only about an hour and a half and we’ve been on the road for about twenty minutes. This quote comes straight out of Lonely Planet, “Lovers of beauty and food will become instantly intoxicated by the sultry charms of Melaka. The narrow streets of Chinatown exude small-town calm yet every cosmopolitan necessity is here, from funky cafés and eclectic art galleries to a diverse collection of restaurants and a congenial drinking scene. Beyond Chinatown, Melaka loses its soul to traffic, cement and over-sized shopping malls.” Maybe it will live up to the hype. I was told that it was a World Heritage site as well, that usually means good things…or interesting things.

On a secondary note, my plans for the rest of the summer are sketched in. The tour I’m on right now ends in two days when we get to Singapore. I stay an extra day there and then fly to Manila and travel around the Philippines for one week. Then I fly to Hong Kong for a week and then back to Dubai. I’ve got all the air tickets done, so that’s how I know that it’s sketched in. I don’t know what I’ll do when I’m at each location though. I heard Hong Kong is really expensive, so I may just stay in the hotel the whole time and eat from a convenience store.