Melaka – Chinese Light, originally uploaded by Rod Edwards.
We happened to visit the historic port town of Melaka, Malaysia in the middle of Chinese New Year. With a large ethnic Chinese population, that makes for quite an event. The city is hundreds of years old, and over its history has served as the pirate base for the infamous Straits of Melaka, a tribal warlord capital, and the seat of a number of Islamic empires. That gives you a city rich in architectural details and stories, ready for great superpositions of past and present.
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