Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore

As I am writing this blog I am reminiscing and very much wishing we could go back to Singapore for just one more week as one week was just not long enough. Singapore is an amazing place!

It is hard to believe how such a great great country can be so closely surrounded by dare I say it ****** ones (I do love Bali and Malaysia but they have …

Singapur...Singapur...nuestro último país por conocer...teníamos muchas ganas de llegar acá...desde Borneo, país donde nos sorprendieron los animales y lo verde, mirábamos el mapa con excitación...cómo será por allá???..

Llegamos al aeropuerto inmenso de Changi en la mañana...un aeropuerto del estilo Barajas o Frackfurt... inmenso, muchos …

Woke up this morning @ 6:00 listening to the Muslim call to prayer from the mosque a block over. It's a rhythmic chant that gets repeated throughout the day. I like listening to it.

After breakfast I joined a three-hour guided walking tour through Little India which was excellent! We walked up and down streets, stopping at a flower garland …

Got up at 5 from the jet lag, and did the planning for the day,
Breakfast wasn't until 8, so I just went for a walk outside until then.

We then went to fort Canning park and wandered around and into the Battle Box, until lunch time, where we went to Lau pa sat, But when we got there we arrived at peak hours when all the office workers …

Singapore Week 3 Part 1 of 2

With the last week of Singapore looming upon us we decided to stock up on the things we needed the most for the rest of our travels. We went to Mustafa's to pick up some boxers for me but unfortunately I was not sure of the sizes. I picked up two and as we left the complex the security alarm went off. The …

So we were up at the crack of dawn to get our flights, but upon arriving at the airport we were told it was delayed by 2 hours – JOY! Luckily this did not affect our connecting flight from Kota Kinabalu and we arrived in Singapore early evening. We caught the uber clean and hi-tech tube over to Clarke Quay and headed to RuckSack Inn. It was …

Very photogenic and multicultural city. We stayed at the hotel Pan Pacific, which is located in the Bay Area. Great hotel with impeccable service. You can get a good price by booking in advance on the web. Expensive but good breakfast with wide variety of oriental and western cuisine. The location is ideal for visiting the Bay Area, the Metro is a …

8 October 2011 (Saturday)

We came to the Asian Civilisations Museum the previous time wanting to see the Terracotta Warriors but was near closing time so we decided to make another trip here again! Finally we managed to come a week before the closing of the exhibition!

While checking out the exihibits, Mommy was thinking what went …

... 's history with the help of a personal hand-held computer and audio-system! By the time we reached the stunning Asian Civilisations Museum Kim's concentration was starting to wane and she gained enjoyment out of the dressing-up box designed for ...

... ;.  From here we walked around the Quays for a while and across to another area opposite the Fullerton Hotel and Asian Civilisations museum that was full of seafood restaurants with the menu shown off in tanks.  Everything was on a huge scale, ...

... stark contrast to the new Supreme court building.  Singapore does that to you a lot.  We decided to go to the Asian Civilisations museum as it  had received rave revues in all the guide books.  It was 8 Dollars each to get in, which ...

... Singapore river, from here we waited until 7pm when we could gain free admission into the extremely interesting Asian Civilisations museum. This museum was great for us, inside a beautiful Colonial building, there were galleries from all the South ...

... several very old and really quite modern buildings like the parliament house, supreme court, sir raffles landing site and the Asian civilisations museum, so I sat at a restaurant by the river and had another very expensive drink, but with a good view and ...

... bus.   Tomorrow I will be leaving the hospitality of Faz's family and have already earmarked a hostel right opposite the Asian civilisations museum, so it's really in the centre of everything and I'll be able to enjoy some lights shows and the like. ...

... long lie-in before venturing into Geylang and getting some dumplings for lunch. In the afternoon we visited the "Asian Civilisations Museum" which was fascinating as we learnt the history of Singapore and saw various items from cultures in South east ...

... - & I was getting used to the undergroundness of it all) and off to the colonial area for a visit to the Asian Civilisations Museum near Fullerton Hotel and Boat Quay (no longer any boats but a line of cafes). The museum was beautifully lit and laid ...

... extremely well too. A couple of examples are the previous British Government house which is now the excellent (and free) Asian civilisations museum and the old Post Office which is now the Fullerton Hotel. We had a 'traditional' English high tea here ...

... socks up or risk a SG$500 (£180) fine for eating on the MTA. I spend my first morning at the Asian Civilisations Museum which provides a fascinating insight into the different cultures and religions that can be found on this island city, and in the ...