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- Singapore
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Singapore Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Singapore
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 ...
Singapore Sling
This is a top pick! ... time, saw The Rite which was really good, and then went the airport. Goodbye South-East Asia and hello to Australia! 3 Word for Singapore Clean Expensive Fabulous NB. One thing I hove forgot to mention in the blog, but would like to pay homage to, is the ...
End of Chapter 1
This is a top pick! ... malls looked particularly unmissable to me. In fact, it would be difficult to find 2 more contrasting cities than Calcutta and Singapore. The former is chaotic, polluted and shabby. Even in the city centre the street lights did not work at night and the ...
Shoes Shoes Shoes
This is a top pick! ... what a shoe city! (we did also do some sightseeing but it was very humid!!). On our way to Greece we stopped for a few days in Singapore (just stayed in Singapore the city) and had a great time and started planning to move there...until we hit a humid ...
Singapore Youth Olympics and Hong Kong
This is a top pick! I was a German/English language interpreter at the Singapore Youth Olympics from August 14th to 26th. Here are some photos documenting my time in Singapore (and Hong Kong for a day). ...
On the road again
This is a top pick! Arrived back in Singapore today after a week back home. Have a lot of work to do this week before heading to Hong Kong next weekend but plan to get out and about as much as time and my jet lagged body allow me to. Stay tuned................. Started ...
Like a Japanese Flag
This is a top pick! ... approaches to life that you're so often presented with? I do. I always have, and after my first night in Singapore I was really excited at the prospect of reviving these old chestnuts and getting the full benefit from each moment. Hostel life after ...
Chinese New Year Celebrations
This is a top pick! ... taxi and again had a running commentary all the way there. Again we were struck by the sheer number of eating places in Singapore and allegedly the traditional Singaporean greeting is "have you eaten yet?" There seem to be as many eateries as there are ...
The begining of a journey
This is a top pick! We left Austraila from Brisbane airport on Singapore Airlines late at night. After being in singapore airport for five hours, then waiting a furher few hours at Bangkok airport for a connecting flight, touchdown in Samui was a delight! I couldn't belive ...
40 Years Later...
This is a top pick! ... everything until Gemma got off work and helped me celebrate the rest of the night in memorable fashion. Today, I find myself in Singapore 40 years after I accidentally found my way to this realm. I can't believe that they haven't realized the mistake ...
We ignored our backpackers' instincts which ...
This is a top pick! ... anybody knows how these work please email Paul, with instructions, as he drenched himeself several times! Highlights of Singapore:- - Foodcourts One of the joys of travelling around the world is sampling the many culinary delights of each ...
Slinging it in Singapore
This is a top pick! ... . Absolutely fascinating 2hr guided walk with Pauline, who was really lovely. The tour was largely centred on the history of Singapore, the brothels, opium houses, slave trade and worst of all, the British involvement! We were even taken to one of the ...
Airports!
This is a top pick! (Back to Singapore airport.. i forgot to add) Singapore airport was amazing. There is so much to do. In the middle of the airport i especially liked the mini rainforest, and those goldfish are the largest ive seen in my life! we were there for a five ...
Bike Packing, Night Safari and Thali's
This is a top pick! ... cleared the entire hostel floor of the debris which they had earlier scattered. The evening was great, a quick drink and a trip out to Singapore Zoo for more Night Safari action. It was a long way out of town on the tube and bus but well worth the ...
Going Back to South East Asia
This is a top pick! ... the police. She died of natural causes >-)) For the first time, I am actually finding it relatively inexpensive to be here in Singapore. I decided that I should take some time to detox at least for a week or 2 after leaving Oz. Couple the lack of ...
The past few days will be remembered as the ...
This is a top pick! ... . Given the i still have two left i can safly assume that a 100bht room above a cafe in Krappy Krabi and a night on a bus to Singapore, will not disrupt the chart one bit! I left you with the news that Mel was returning to Phi Phi, well she did and i ...
Killing Time and Asia Review
This is a top pick! ... a truly great place to travel and should receive far more visitors than it's neighbour to the north but oh well, it's their loss. Singapore is a strange country. Well you can hardly call it a country really as it's just a big city. I didn't really know ...
Finally a lazy day then a night of F1 Grand Prix
This is a top pick! Today was great we got a bit of a lay in we are finally starting to feel a bit more human - had a lovely day the boys went to get haircuts and us girls went to the pool - considering the amount of time we have been away the amount of time lazing on a sun ...
The great Asian adventure begins!
This is a top pick! ... to eradicate traces of everyone else from places like Singapore and Tibet which is a bit of a shame. However, anyone who thinks Singapore is sterile would be very much mistaken. Yes the tube stations are pristine and the main streets are clean and well ...
The Mer-Lion of Asia
This is a top pick! ... it to any poorer city. Asians get rich, they dye their hair. I also marvelled at the incredible effciency of the Singapore airport. Fast immigration, baggage must have appeared by magic it was so fast, and it wasn't crowded, despite constant ...
12 hours in Singapore Airport - WOW great airport
This is a top pick! Just a wee update for our stopover in Singapore We flew Mumbai to Singapore as part of our RTW ticket and booked a separate Tiger Airline flight to Hong Kong to get us up into China. We had 12 hours to kill at the airport which was ...
Wedding in Singers
This is a top pick! ... way out, we were told that they were turned around and used, but personally, that is a bit of a story !!! Back on the mainland, we hit Raffles for a Singapore Sling before we hit the airport as we now had another flight which would take us to ...
Back to Singapore...The Full Circle........!!!
This is a top pick! ... , once on the otherside of the bridge we jumped off again, this time armed with our bags and belongings and proceded through Singapore immigration, the queues there were unreal and it was so slow, would you believe that when we finally got stamped in and ...
3 Countries in as many days!
This is a top pick! ... round one of the gates. Now I know Steve was quite popular at home in England, but had his legendary status reached Singapore? NO, apparently the crowd were waiting for the supposedly world famous Chinese group NRG, or Energy, I don't quite know? Met ...
Little India and New Camera Shopping
This is a top pick! ... up my batteries and get creative again! I just hope it lives up to my expectations because I can't take it back once Ieave Singapore! Eek! 16:32 Found bugis street and an interesting architected shopping mall called ilumo 17:03 I had a chat ...
Singapore Slung
This is a top pick! I am the tallest man in the world! Well Singapore anyway. I've only just realised it but at 5'10 and a bit I am huge in asian terms. Standing on the underground I can see right down the train over a sea of heads. Only problem is I can't see out the ...
A Day with Friends, old and new
This is a top pick! ... afternoon with Rishi and Anita, chatting endlessly abuot what we'd been up to, and also our time through russia and they bought me a Singapore sling which was a very tasty drink and loosened me up for the afternoon. We caught up so much it was so ...
Chinatown and Museums
This is a top pick! ... style street of houses, all tall thin shutters and brightly coloured, but contrasting with the background of central high-rise, glassy Singapore, ok it's a tourist street full of stalls selling fridge magnets, t-shirts and the like but it's a nice looking ...