We decided to visit Malaka (the Malaysian spelling, though most English web sites refer to it as Malacca) after reading some interesting articles. It was a bit of a last minute decision, and we decided to hire a driver to take us there. We decided to use MyDayTrip to find a driver and car. We made a couple of stops along the way, and drove over the bridge shown above at one point.

Our first stop along the route was at the Batu Caves. This is a popular tourist attraction, as well as a place of pilgrimage for Tamil Hindus in Malaysia. It is a Hindu shrine dedicated to Lord Murugan (the golden statue top-left).

There are 272 steps into the caves (rainbow steps above). Because of limited time, along with not being dressed properly for entering the temple (Burt was wearing shorts), we opted to not climb the stairs.

Monkeys were everywhere, and we were warned to keep our iPhones out of sight and reach, lest the monkeys steal them. In general, the monkeys were well behaved though, taking bananas from tourists, who bought them from a vendor at the edge of the plaza. There were also thousands of pigeons, again being fed and pampered by the tourists (lower-right).

The Putra Mosque is the principal mosque in Putrajaya, the new administrative capital of Malaysia. The mosque is commonly known as the pink mosque, due to being built with rose-tinted granite. It is very new, having been built in 1997. Despite being so new though, it was having major renovation being done to it already (upper-left and lower-right), which heavily limited our access and images we could capture.