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Initial plan was to find a place between Port Dickson & Melaka for today, preferrably along the coast...maybe a palm lined beach with chalets, pool, cocktails...we can tell you, "you can't find it here" ;-)
The coastline is quite industrial, there isn't real beach, resorts are washed down chalets or appartement with garbage fires alongside...nothing worth stopping for...so we pedalled on towards melaka in 1 go totalling again 100+km today.
Our map & Gmaps route said 86lm, but was considering following the nice coastal rd N143 all the way. However it seems the rd abruptly stops at a military base entranc?! Why? Well at that point we could see endless tankers (petronas ships loaded with crude oil) on the horizon. They have a dump station between PD & Melaka, which looks quite big (on Google Earth) so its a tactical place of interest...Petronas is also simply the malaysian government (thats the money they use tho build Putrajaya, or that what I think) so they just build huge military camps around it to give it some protection (they have to be somewhere anyway) and voila. Forget about that nice coastal rd.
DDidn't bother to visit Melaka today, we have 2 or 3 days here so that things for tomorrow. Now we just eat, sleep & rest our weary legs.
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Initial plan was to find a place between Port Dickson & Melaka for today, preferrably along the coast...maybe a palm lined beach with chalets, pool, cocktails...we can tell you, "you can't find it here" ;-)
The coastline is quite industrial, there isn't real beach, resorts are washed down chalets or appartement with garbage fires alongside...nothing worth stopping for...so we pedalled on towards melaka in 1 go totalling again 100+km today.
Our map & Gmaps route said 86lm, but was considering following the nice coastal rd N143 all the way. However it seems the rd abruptly stops at a military base entranc?! Why? Well at that point we could see endless tankers (petronas ships loaded with crude oil) on the horizon. They have a dump station between PD & Melaka, which looks quite big (on Google Earth) so its a tactical place of interest...Petronas is also simply the malaysian government (thats the money they use tho build Putrajaya, or that what I think) so they just build huge military camps around it to give it some protection (they have to be somewhere anyway) and voila. Forget about that nice coastal rd.
DDidn't bother to visit Melaka today, we have 2 or 3 days here so that things for tomorrow. Now we just eat, sleep & rest our weary legs.
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