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- Singapore
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Singapore Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Singapore, Singapore
Live, Love, Laugh....EAT
This is a top pick! ... an open mind!...lots of wine =) Here we go..... Thursday January 10, 2008 - Indochine Waterfront, Historic District, Singapore Started dinner with a saviognon blanc from France and the Vietnamese spring-rolls with prawns. The wine was spot ...
Singapore
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Dec 20, Singapore I had memories of a very warm, sticky and rainy Singapore and the idea to go there again did not excite me that much, except that the kids wanted to stop there and "shop"!! So we did...and in the end, I have ...
The good and bad of air travel - business class
This is a top pick! ... airline company doesn't crash airplane doesn't crash tax more than airfare Finance Asia magazine's 2008 business travel survey SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Good service, edible food and on-time departures were on a list of what business travelers in ...
Welcome to Asia Lite
This is a top pick! ... look an awful lot like the people from the rest of Asia, but that's pretty much where the resemblance ends. Singapore is a clean, modern city, where the people wear Armani and Versace and virtually everyone speaks English (the primary official language, ...
Far, far from Asia
This is a top pick! ... gum (chewing gum is illegal in Singapore). The greenery was pristinely kept and the public spaces were neat and sharp. Singapore lacked a human touch. But architecturally it comes close to the top European cities. I found myself at one skyscraper, then ...
My camera died today =(
This is a top pick! ... so people. I took photos on the trip around, but not too many as it was really difficult and frustrating. Luckily I'm in Singapore, the country for all things shopping! I asked the guy at the front desk of my hostel and he pointed me to an ...
Island hop to Sentosa
This is a top pick! ... going to drop! Luckily, we didn't. At the top, still rotating, you get a really good view of Sentosa Island and Singapore marina. From here we spotted a Subway and that immediately solved any lunch dilemma's! After our up and down a pole experience, ...
Eating Singapore
This is a top pick! ... checking out the shops on Orchard Road and walking around the city. Ben, friend of mine from college, had a friend staying in Singapore for business that week so we met up at Jazz Cafe for dinner along with a few pitchers of Tiger beer ...
Singapore
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Singapore in our entry from Cairns, Australia entitled 'Coast to Coast to Coast'. Cheers, K & ...
Baby
This is a top pick! ... of the following London - Singapore - Bali - Singapore - Sydney - Melbourne - Sydney - London There are advantages to being here in Singapore. Just under a year ago, our friend Davey was married, and now he has a baby, so we said hi to Daaniel and Lorain ...
From Asia with Love for the last time!
This is a top pick! ... here and there to see what there is to see! On our first day we took the bus across to Sentosa Island, now when I visited Singapore back in 1999 I adored Sentosa Island and told Matt all about it, so off we went intending to spend the whole day. What ...
Another Country
This is a top pick! ... had emigrated there, but fuck me, Armenians !!! What is this world coming to !!! Also, we had heard about the cleanliness of Singapore, and I kid you not, this is not Asia. So we walked around, taking it in, and then we found a plaza selling electronic ...
Back to Singapore
This is a top pick! ... is the second busiest port in the world (behind Rotterdam) and is therefore a melting pot of cultures. While Singapore is predominantly Chinese, there exist Indian, European, and Southeast Asian influences, among others. The food options reflect ...
Final days and arrival in Singapore
This is a top pick! ... forget this and we are convinced that we are back one day. Can't get rid of the Flynns:-) We spent 3 days in Singapore, acclimatizing and getting used to the backpacker lifestyle again. The temperatures are about 30 degrees and it is very humid. We ...
Easy Tiger
This is a top pick! ... at a cost that would save a small village. A flight I have no intention of taking. Anyway.. It's weird being back in Singapore. Good weird. I've been staying on the east coast near the beach and have already met some great roomies. The ...
Terror flight to KL
This is a top pick! ... I gratefully accepted. My time was up in KL, I made my way to the near-by bus terminal and hopped onto a bus to Singapore. -- Singapore, leave your gum at the border. The bus to Singapore was the most cushy, soft and relaxing ride I'd had since I ...
Sorry Mr Raffles no Bungee Jumping
This is a top pick! ... Internet cafe is doing my head in, lots of school kids playing interactive games on the Internet.... Back to my time in Singapore and a brief stop over. I took an Airasia flight from Jakarta over to Batam the island south of Singapore, then took the ...
Getting into the Swing of Singapore
This is a top pick! ... SE Asia and then Nepal/Tibet. It took a few hours to adjust to my new life on the road but I am thoroughly enjoying Singapore. I'm getting use to being one of a handful of white people but if anything is to go by with my experience of Singaporean ...
One night in Singapore
This is a top pick! ... and Chinese (Hokkien). It's quite funny listening to them speak, that is if you understand what they're saying. Singapore is a rather quirky country, albeit one that's done very well for itself considering they don't have any natural resources to ...
Scouring
This is a top pick! ... ', often found proudly displayed on postcards all over the city and clearly a symbolic and iconic structure landmarking the city of Singapore. While Singers hasn't knocked my socks off on face value, it's been a whole world of contrast to the ...
Singapore
This is a top pick! ... too much. Bargaining with some of the most miserable people was too much like hard work as well! One evening we visited the Singapore Night Safari. This is similar to the zoo but just used for night time when the animals are more active. It was well ...
Hangin' in Singers
This is a top pick! ... night and after breakfast, back out to the airport we went with the sole intention of spending more than our usual twelve hours in Singapore !!! Day 1 - GPS Link Room found, we had a quick walk around Little India, and as I am a carpet whore, my eyes lit ...
Back in the Garden City
This is a top pick! ... quite enough left to do that will keep me busy and in trouble for the next 19 or so days. I decided to stay in Singapore for the weekend after-all and just chilled at the pool all day Saturday. It was quite festive at the pool and everybody was ...
Happy New Year
This is a top pick! ... a great overview of what Singapore has to offer. I'll make a point by saying that any Western Australian could simply come to Singapore to shop... the shopping bargains are out there. Tomorrow I head to Malacca, where I plan to spend 2 nights and then ...
Uncle Ho's Rest-oran
This is a top pick! ... victims and masters in the art of decisionless (brainwashed) purchasing of absurdly unnecessary goods and services. The island of Singapore is a big big bubble - a mecca - of consumerism. Ride the bus or train for just a few minutes and ...
Sri Veeramakaliamman & Chinese Thearter Circle
This is a top pick! Tomorrow is my last day in Singapore, I bought my train ticket to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and I leave Monday morning. It's a 6 hour train ride, but the train looks pretty plush and I splurged on first class. Hope you enjoy the photo ...
spit out that gum!
This is a top pick! ... of (which I'll admit, I did) but is not really what it says it is. Nice bridge though. The hostel in Singapore was nice - right near a metro station and just outside of Little India. I went for a wander one night around Little India with a ...
'Get in ma belly, belly!'
This is a top pick! ... the city and took a tram over to Ang Mo Kio, a modest little area of the suburbs which boasted 'the cheapest Japanese food in Singapore!' We entered. We sat down. We ate a whole load of raw sashimi and tempura, and washed it all down with green tea and ...
Tomorrow I take the train up to Malaysia
This is a top pick! Changing countries again tomorrow. Singapore, maybe the smallest country ever, just a little island, has shown me it's highlights. I'm continuing north through Asia, and the next country up is Malaysia. I've decided to just hit ...