Orchard Road Singapore

The day started as soon as I was up. There wasn't much to do in the hotel so I stepped out and headed to little India, to refresh my memories of the trip from 13 years ago. The place had changed beyond recognition, it was now a crowded and downtrodden looking part of town full of grey market goods and Thai "massage" places. The Mustafa Center had …

We almost didn't make it to Singapore!!

We had been told when we checked in at Cairns, that we only had an hour to make our connection in Sydney, but that we should be fine. When we landed, we were aware we were already running a bit behind schedule, so were eager to get of the plane as quickly as possible. We spotted the signs for our …

Sentosa:

Sentosa was exactly as the guide book described; contrived, plastic and cheesy - built for Americans. Imagine if Dreamworld or Movieworld took over an entire island, this is what it would be like. Happy carnival music and happy voices telling you how wonderful everything is blaring at you from hidden speakers, mock hawaiian …

Today I was up and out of bed early ready to have breakfast at the Coffee Bean and then to see a bit more of Singapore.

As I walked down Orchard Road I noticed how amazingly quiet it was and suddenly realised that it was Sunday and nothing was open that early! Dam I could've had a lay in after all! It was actually quite nice to walk down …

As mentioned previously, our Singapore leg of our journey began at breakneck pace as we crammed in many of Singapore's best known attractions. Since the last entry we have decided to just relax a bit and save some of our enthusiasm for the 16th when we head to Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur. Another change since the last entry was our move from The …

Entry containing 1 photo titled: Artbox in Orchard

Welcome to Singapore. Changi Airport sangat bagus. Lalu saya mencari MRT di Changi untuk menuju ke Chinatown. Setelah tiba di Chinatown, saya langsung mencari Service World Backpackers Hostel untuk check in dan bersih-bersih. Setelah itu menuju Orchard untuk jalan-jalan dan makan di sana.

Setelah itu kembali ke Chinatown, karena hostel …

Hari ini jadwalnya adalah naik MRT ke Little India,
lalu jalan kaki ke Bugis, Kampong Glam, National Library, St, Joseph
Church, Cathedral of The Good Shepherd, CHIJMS, Esplanade, Merlion Park,
Raffles Statue, Boat Quay, Pagoda Street, Clarke Quay. Lalu naik bus ke
Orchard Road.

Malamnya pergi ke Esplanade, Merlion Park …

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From Siem Reap things got a little out of hand.- to put it dramatically.

An awfully long bus ride to bangkok with potentially the worse border crossing of …

Friday

Early morning Air Asia flight from Langkawi to Singapore. So easy I kinda wish we'd flown to Penang instead of enduring that awful train ride.

Hot hot hot here. We're staying in a nice hostel in Little India which is really pretty - busy and bustling all day and all night. We took the MRT to the harbour then walked across …

... the weeks mouthwatering Champions League fixtures). After a good nights sleep, I enquired at reception about getting to Orchard Road, the main shopping hub of Singapore. I was surprised to hear that I had to get a bus to the Novena MRT station, ...

... ;six and half thousand Singaporeans per square kilometre, but I bet there are more shopping centres per square km than this. Orchard Road is about 5 miles long and all along there is shopping centre after shopping centre after shopping centre.  ...

... the sight of the mile long, mall lined, shopping metropolis that is a living shrine to the power of capitalism and globalisation, Orchard Road, one of the world's densest shopping areas. We walked up and down its length daring to gaze through the shop ...

... see what else was on offer on the island. The bus continued through the brightly lit Chinatown streets and connected with Orchard Road, which was sparkling with lights and decorations in anticipation of the 'Chingay' parade that would take place on New ...

... edit - bar hong kong were you dont even need to walk)?  Our route then took us to Orchard Road which is the shopping mecca of Singapore.  We have quite honestly never seen shopping like it there were huge malls everywhere with so many designer ...

... look at but not really much to mention as it was pretty touristy! We also took a trip to Chinatown and Little India, Orchard road and Arab street, the 4 main attractions of the city. Obviously all different cultures but still the same stall selling ...

... almost like I had something else on my mind but I couldn't put my finger on it. I went to the famous shopping street in Singapore - Orchard Road. It has many shopping malls and I headed for a bookshop. If I'm going to be at sea for 6 days then I would ...

... the lovely Orchid Garden, then explored the 6ha patch of native rainforest. We ended the day with some retail therapy on Orchard Road... ended up buying a new digital camera with marine housing. We'd been thinking about getting a new camera, but ...

... for quality of shots. Back to Singapore just in time to catch last half of last bus tour of city. Got off on Orchard Road posted cards, and photo CDs then across to Dubliner bar just in time for the England v South Africa rugby match. England cruise ...

... experience some of the great food Singapore has to offer...and some of the shopping! Naughty Liz.  A walk down Orchard Road, Singapore's answer to Oxford Street, has finally put us in the Christmas mood with the fantastic lights and Christmas music ...