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Travel Blogs from Singapore, Singapore
Singapore is amazing!
This is a top pick! ... a river boat docked to the boardwalk called Lotus Grill. After dinner we do a mini-crawl that includes places called Singapore Sling, IndoChine, Forbidden City, Ministry of Sound (which we find out is really more like 5 clubs in one fitting over ...
Second day in Singapore
This is a top pick! ... 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 that night we went to Smith Street and had satay mutton and pork skewers and tried "Bakkwa" (a ...
2008 Half Year Travel Stats
This is a top pick! ... - 2 nights Jeju-si City - 1 night Seoul - 1 night Singapore Total days in Singapore = 4 Singapore - 3 nights UNESCO World Heritage Sites Visited 1. Tanzania Ngoringoro Conservation Area Kilimanjaro National Park 2. India Agra Fort ...
Singapore
This is a top pick! ... to get around, it's fast, smooth and efficient. All the stations are spotless and everything looks brand new, they exemplify Singapore. Singapore is a city, an island and a country, ruled over by the Socialist Peoples Action Party (PAP) who keep the ...
Travel tips for the big cities of SE Asia
This is a top pick! ... easy since most hotels, cities and transport providers have English websites and on-line booking capabilities. Malaysia, Bangkok, and Singapore are very low hassle; you only occasionally be given sales pitches, there are few beggars, and locals are ...
Sunday Dinner Singapore style
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... -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. ...
Singapore - finally!
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
23 hours, 4 meals, 5 movies
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Finally got to ride an elephant!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
tired in Singapore
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The lost day
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Botanic Gardens
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Slinging it to Singapore
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Eddie Murphy?
This is a top pick! ... 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...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Sparkling Singapore
This is a top pick! ... a nap. That evening we went to eat at the famous Maxwell Road Hawker Centre. This place is generally esteemed as one of Singapore's best hawker centres, basically this is in an open-sided 30 stalled food barn. This is where the local people come to eat, ...
Gong Xi Fa Cai
This is a top pick! ... 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; ...
Hoobastank... well they kinda stank
This is a top pick! Gaarda was kind enough to invite me to see Hoobastank on Silosa Beach in Singapore. So it really was a gig on the beach! Sentosa Island has a beach called Silosa beach, totally artifical of course but it likes to play home to up and coming bands like ...
Day 155
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! SINGAPORE Singapore is the perfect place to spend three days. We never anticipated staying so long in Singapore this time around, but the days quickly melted into one another; before we knew it a few days became three whole weeks. Though kept busy ...
Clean, efficient and sterile
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Travel Karma....
This is a top pick! ... ; 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! ...