Fort Canning Park Singapore

Free buffet breakast - if these three words are ever mentioned you know you are onto a good thing. We headed down to breakfast at about 9:30 and were expecting a small fair with a few options like what we experienced in Japan, when we sat down and had a look at the buffet we were very impressed with the spread.

We had choices between: …

Our last few days in Asia were pretty mellow. We spent just one day in Melaka, our last Malaysian stop, where we treated ourselves to a movie - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, really funny and action-packed - we thoroughly enjoyed it! We also picked up a pair of his and hers cell phones. Andy got the Samsung Galaxy S2 and I got the Galaxy Ace …

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 …

There is a startling contrast between the last 2 days since our last entry. Yesterday was spent in Little India and Fort Canning Park and today was Universal Studios on Sentosa Island. Both days have been wonderful for different reasons. I enjoyed today very much because of the Cylon and Human roller-coasters at Universal Studios but Sam would …

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 …

Ok, the whole idea of writing a blog sounds fascinating. This is my first blog ever so I hope I do a good job here. I just want to share y experiences regarding my last trip to Southeast Asia.

We finally landed in Singapore. I can't believe it... I spent couple of months dreaming of and organizing this awesome trip. My travel companions?? …

Rufio picked me up from immigration at Changi airport sometime after 2 am. I lamented the awful food in the economy cabin, of which I am not accustomed, as we made our way to the hotel. Sometime after 3 am I fell into a much needed deep slumber before waking bright eyed at 8 am to finally meet the Lion City.

We ate chili crab omelets at …

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... a peak at the Long Bar instead which appeared decidedly ordinary in comparison.   We walked quite some way towards Fort Canning Park where Ian Brown played earlier this month and were amazed to see escalators going up a hill outside!  It ...

... . We will start sending the full tapes back for safe keeping soon. Once we had all that sorted we had a look around Fort Canning Park then back to Raffle's Long Bar (which was now open) and a respectable time for some Singapore Slings. For dinner ...

... ! The next day was spent discovering the northern part of the city including the shopping malls, national museums and Fort Canning Park. Unfortunately the highly rated Battle Box was closed for temporary renovation. The Battle Box was an emergency ...

... paradise of Orchard Road (home of such upscale stores such as Gucci, Versace, and Marks & Spencers), then over to Fort Canning Park, before heading down to the river and the numerous restaurants and bars. Down in the Colonial District I knocked on ...

... at a food court so the atmosphere and hustle and bustle you get from the street stalls is gone. After lunch we headed to Fort Canning Park to walk it off. Its a beautiful big park with a reservoir in the middle and great views of Singapores Financial ...

... a fish with a lion's head but it was nice to see the river again from a different perspective. Then we headed to Fort Canning Park again to visit the Battle box which is the bunker where the decision to surrender Singapore to the Japs was made. We ...

Last 2 days we have just been chilling had a couple of picnic lunches in the fort Canning park that is on a hill in the middle of the town, it is a lovely place to spend a few hours and we had some good food and wine from the Carrefour supermarket just ...

... Mall, a specialist electronics centre, for a new watch but instead found on in another mall for 22SGD. I ate my lunch in Fort Canning Park where Raffles built his first house or settlement. By now I was feeling weary so I called in at Cold Storage to ...

... an exceptionally good bowl of Laksa Lemak) before doing a bit of window shopping on Orchard Road and then a march through Fort Canning Park and a bit of sunbathing! Over the last week we have become addicted to any food cooked in a tandoori oven so ...

... the day sightseeing. Not much to see apart from shopping malls, skyscrapers so went in search of some green spaces like Fort Canning Park. Also visited Orchard Road, Chinatown, Harbour Front and the Esplanade area. At about 6.00pm, decided to check my ...