Singapore
Travel Blogs from Singapore
Sunday Dinner Singapore style
... that here) but no one picked up. It had been such a great day and one that we didn’t think we would be having in Singapore of all places. It was a bit surreal one minute enjoying a roast dinner and then the next drinking wine by the pool but I ...
Singapore Parks
... -fronted enclosures. The Night Safari is the world's first nocturnal zoo and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Singapore.The Night Safari currently houses a total of 1,040 animals of 120 species, of which 29% are threatened species. ...
23 hours, 4 meals, 5 movies
Well, we're alive. Singapore is so hot that we immediately stripped down to our t-shirts, shorts and sandals once we walked outside. We took a cab to our hostel and Jeff tried to speak Mandarin to the cabbie, but he simply replied with a perfect accent, ...
Hot and steamy
You might think that arriving at Singapore at 5 o'clock in the morning would allow you to miss out on the oppressive heat and humidity. You might think that, but you'd be wrong. Twenty-six degrees and about 99% humidity greeted us as we walked clear of ...
tired in Singapore
argh, this flying thing kills me. I dry out like an old piece of toast. Love this Qantas Club membership though, free food, drinks and a shower to try and put some of that moisture back in to me that the plane has sucked out. Hour ...
Swimming and eating
... in early - satay was our goal, and then stroll about eating where we pleased. I tried to talk Jess into stopping at the Singapore branch of 'Hooters' (not really). 'Why have those women got such small shorts on?' Maggie asked me. 'Umm... I think ...
Goodbye Asia
So we end our South East Asia journey where it began, in Singapore. Although we're only in the airport for five hours it still counts! We’ve had an amazing 3 and half months or so, including our trip stateside of course! Highlights for South East ...
Singapore - finally!
... . It is 30 degrees and monsoon rain. Kinda like being in England!!! ^ hours later...have ended up staying in the part of singapore called little india, so nothing changes! Its a very clean and quiet country compared to india, no shouting, no car horns, no ...
The lost day
... during the night and as a result we were all set to go. Our flight took us from Barcelona to Milan and then on to Singapore. It was great being back on Singapore Airlines. It really is the best airline I think. I had the chance to watch three movies, ...
Finally got to ride an elephant!!
... famous Raffles Hotel. It was quite surreal seeing it decorated for Christmas when you're in shorts and t-shirt. As it was where the "Singapore Sling" cocktail was invented, we had to sample one! It was then onto a River cruise that took you on a tour of ...
Botanic Gardens
Our next stop was the Singapore Botanic Gardens which is a 157-acres. It is around one-fifth the size of Central Park in New York and is the only garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m. to 12 midnight every single day of the year. The ...
Eddie Murphy?
... very smoothly and we were able to get our visas with no complications. Yes everything was going great until....the Singapore airport. Jami and I were standing out the counter checking in for our flight into Southeast Asia when panic struck when I ...
Chapter 24: Living in a material world...
... didn't notice much that was beefy about it (it looked like a corn fritter), so I ate it without complaint. Changi Airport in Singapore was a different world from the Bali terminal. I expected it to be modern and techy... but I didn't expect to find ...
Slinging it to Singapore
... than one immigration counter open for the first time in months. Checking into the Inncrowd hostel, clean, friendly, expensive (Singapore in a nutshell really) I headed out for a walk around encountering enough shops and malls to keep any happy shopper ...
Gong Xi Fa Cai
... New Year) One of the best things about returning from Sri Lanka (besides the food) was our timing; our arrival in Singapore coincided with Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is determined by the lunar calendar; ...
Day 155
... and I flicked through some books including one about a team of Oxford graduates who drove overland in Land-Rovers from England to Singapore during the 50s. The band had come from Jakarta and from what I could hear they should go straight back to ...
Singapore, the start of our Asia adventure
... the train to Malacca, or better Tampin, the closest train station to Malacca. We took a taxi to the Malaysian train station in Singapore. The station is already a different world, it looks old and run down, and does not really fit in the pristine world of ...
Chicken-Crazy Chinatown and the Chingay Parade
... and buy a couple of souvenirs. We just couldn't resist the promise for good luck and prosperity!) Another highlight of Singapore's Chinese New Year celebration is the Chingay Parade. The trees along Orchard Road are strung with twinkling lights, and ...
3 Weeks in Singapore
... combination of fuel than those of other countries. We encountered the latter obstacle while meeting with engine suppliers in Singapore, learning that kerosene was the preferred fuel option in Sri Lanka, and that Singapore doesn't use kerosene at all. ...
Clean, efficient and sterile
... just spotlessness and efficiency! The border crossing was fun as always and there were a few difference between the Malaysia and Singapore approach to customs! Still very helpful people on the bus willing to help the silly westerners with their guide book ...
Blimey Charlie it's hot
... anything from made to measure suits to egg fried rice. Brilliant area but the hawkers were annoying after a while. Singapore v. strange place. Definately a good place to enter Asia; lots of east meets west, extremely clean, the underground amazingly ...
Sanitary Singapore
... of it, even 20 years ago I wasn't that stupid. Crazy, maybe, but much too paranoid to try anything like that. Singapore itself is like a futuristic world. Everything is in it's place, labelled, and directed. One good example is the underground ...
Travel Karma....
... ; night with a nice breeze . We are staying in a area called Little India. Talk about feeling like you are in another country. Singapore, as modern and squeaky clean as it is, it is a melting pot for all types of people, and they all get along! ...
Day 157
Well I didn't do much today. I made a few phone calls to Mohamed at Inchcape Shipping (never heard of that company until a few days ago) and got a time and address for me to meet him tomorrow. Tomorrow, therefore, is the big day. Leaving Asia ...
Emotional Roller Coaster
... Johor Bahru on Monday morning, and took a taxi to a bus to a customs checkpoint (Malaysia), a bus to another customs checkpoint (Singapore), then a bus to a train to the YMCA. We were greeted there by a chaos that would define our week. In a ...
Pay what you like at hotel: for real
... chance. Admittedly this is promotion for a certain hotel chain, and there are certain conditions. And you have to be going to Singapore. So what's the deal? Singapore Ibis, which usually costs about $100US a night, is giving prospective guests the ...
Impressions of a truly cosmopolitan city
... Centre at Kampung Glam. All of the above is true, but they are just forms of relief from the bigger picture - that Singapore is an overdeveloped, oversized, impersonal plethora of buildings, cars and far too many people. That said, the hostel I ...
Am I back in Manhattan, ohhh it's Singapore
... a cool butterfly park. I'm not going to stay the 5 days I thought I would, I think three might be enough. I'm going to look into taking the train Friday afternoon out of Singapore and continue north into Malaysia. Until ...
Onwards and Upwards
... and couldn't really be arsed to say anything. Any other time I'd charm the pants off her. Not literally *shudders*. Regardless, I arrived in Singapore 7 hours later at 2:30 in the morning with no hostel booked and no idea how to get into the city, so I ...
