Travel Tips
Being one of the top 10 places to visit in Malaysia, Melaka or Malacca is one city you must not miss to go if you ever have the chance to visit Malaysia. At about 150 km south of Kuala Lumpur, Malacca is one of the 4 heritage sites of Malaysia inscribed by UNESCO. Featuring tremendous historical architectures and cultures inherited by the Portuguese, Dutch and British, Malacca is also a perfect destination for travel photography.
Spending a holiday in Malacca city centre is especially relaxing with a lot of fun. Most of the travel attractions in Malacca are concentrated in “Melaka Raya” or Malacca city centre. What you need to do is to grab a camera in your hand and start strolling down streets after streets in the city and fire photo shots after shots.
First tourist spot to visit in Malacca is the red architecture of Stadthuys Square. It was constructed by Dutch in 1650 as residence of Governor with the Christ Church next to it, and is now the “Museum of History and Ethnography“. It’s best to capture the colourful buildings and fountain with the morning sun shining towards it.
Behind Stadthuys Square is the ruins of Fort A Famosa and the abandoned St. Paul church on top of St. Paul Hill, built by Portuguese nearly 500 years ago in 1511.
Beside the church stands a statue built in 1952 to commemorate the famous spanish jesuit, the late St. Francis Xavier.
Hungry? Hire a special bicycle trishaw decorated with flowers to take you to Jonker Street not far away for the special chicken ball rice. After the lunch, take a slow walk down the Jonker Street which is also famous for its antique goods, souvenirs, local street foods, and beers at bars.
Take plenty of photos on Malacca’s heritage architecture as you walk. Also check out cultures and foods of the local Baba Nyonya community. Further down at Temple Street, Cheng Hoon Teng Temple is one of the oldest functioning Buddha temples in Malaysia and grandest temple in Malacca.
When it comes to evening time, no better place to have a seafood dinner other than the Portuguese Settlement, especially grill fish at riverside. From there, you can experience the culmination of Portuguese culture in its full splendour and colours.
This would end a perfect getaway trip to Malacca with full colours. 
– Travel Feeder, your ultimate guide to Malaysia.
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Great travel photography comes with practice, diverse experience and a sound working technical knowledge of your camera and electronic accessories. But if you are still struggling to get travel shots, of the quality you know you are capable, time and time again, then we’ve compiled a few of our top travel photography tips to help you out along the way:
1. Take pictures in context. Whatever you are photographing, whether it’s a person, an object, a landscape or a meal, getting in a few details that provide a little background information or a clue to your location can help to make your picture come to life. That’s not to say that every New York shot needs to have the Empire State Building floating in the background, but a few everyday cultural indications can give an otherwise average shot the impact it requires to be a great one.
2. Try your hand at a range of different locations. The light, for example, in the Mediterranean, is totally different to the light in Norway. Practising your photographic techniques in different climates will help you to hone your skills. And if your struggling to find a break away to fit the budget, take a look at some Thomas Cook package holidays available from your local high street travel agencies.
3. Remember that people are not tourist attractions. It is often tempting to take pictures of locals as if they were landmarks, but, not only is this naive, it is also an arrogant and rather rude approach to subject based photography. Obviously, a language barrier can make it difficult to engage your chosen subject in any kind of in depth conversation before you take their picture, but a gesture asking permission, or an exchange of any kind, will help to break the ice at least. Furthermore, isolating your subjects by making them feel like tourist attractions does not promote classy photography. Interacting with subjects before you click can help to transform your photograph into a snap shot of cultural exchange, a fragment of cross-cultural communication.
Looking for more tips? Check out my collection of travel photography tips here on Travel Feeder. – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel guide to Europe
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