Gallery Singapore

From the Andes to Easter Island, Casablanca to Istanbul, Damascus to Cairo, Addis Ababa to Mumbai, and Singapore to Beijing ... photo gallery here: http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n293/finrod3791/2006-atw/

... it. I have been emailing a guy named Michael Tan since December. He runs a cableski park in Batam (an Indonesian island close to Singapore) similar to the one I frequent at home. He and his wife Irene were kind enough to show us around the city. We ...

... in front of the TV and no bath curtains in the bathroom! Well, it was only a budget hotel with reasonable price (around $170 Singapore Dollars), so I shouldn't have expected it too much. The following day, we left the hotel and took a taxi to the Resorts ...

... money out, and realised later it was probably too much. I alsmost had to plump for the deluxe suite at the Gallery hotel, at 238 Singapore dollars, about 80 quid (I was secretly looking forward to it, very posh). But just before ringing them back I found ...

... nearly got re-routed to KL because of clouds, which would have made it a really, really long day. We arrived at The Gallery Hotel around 8pm. Didn't do much else until this afternoon but sleep. Eventually ventured out at about 3pm. Very, very humid. ...

... :-   - Hotel 1929 - Hotel Asia - Golden Landmark - A Far East Hotel - Quality Hotel Singapore - Gallery Hotel - Hotel 81 - Star - YWCA Fort Canning Lodge - Fragrance Ruby - Fraser Suites ...

... 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 ...

... each other. In the afternoon took a trip to Sentosa Island via cable car. Main attractions were the rotating viewing gallery, images of singapore (history of the city basically), fort silsko and the aquarium. Fort Silsko focused on the defence or more ...

... had fantastic architecture and interesting history assigned to them.  Then I arrived at Fort Cannng - a hill overlooking most of Singapore, the established home of Raffles (one of the earliest settlers, and whom the Raffles hotel is aptly named ...

... in the vicinity of Raffles Place, and to be exact, it's the Republic Plaza. One of the tallest building in Singapore, strategically located just nearby the Raffles Place MRT, and few steps away from Singapore's pride which I will tell you ...

... all with a slightly cleaner, more convenient twist, which was kind of relaxing. I think the proper characterization would be Asia-lite. Singapore is currently one of the busiest shipping ports in the world. It seems to be a melting pot of mainly Chinese, ...

... a total change from where we had been...we back to somewhere similat to Hong Kong and opther major cities. I quite like the feel singapore has, as it has lots of themed places and areas for drinking and partying, lots of shopping ( we have arrived in the ...

... as we don't check in for the flight till 7pm so gives us the morning to relax and stay cool and the afternoon to see more of Singapore which is really worth a trip.   Here are the photos (I hope!) Talk soon peoples - bye for now, love from ...

... having two days in Singapore, we realized we could not see everything, but we truly enjoyed what we did see. Acommodation is expensive in Singapore (compared to other countries in SE Asia), but you can do a lot and eat very cheap. There are a lot of ...

... to see so much here and next for me is the world renowned beauty of the Thai islands to the south. Practical Singapore EZ-link is a card you buy at the airport and charge up with money to allow fast access through the MRT ...

... I slept, but it was not long.  10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, sleep was very interrupted. We finally arrived in Singapore.  The change in climate was immediately evident, and I wished that I was not wearing so many clothes.  We made it ...

... too and there was a shuttle bus that took you between the locations. One of the art festival exhibitions was created around Singapore’s Merlion. This is a sculpture that was commissioned to be the symbol of Singapore and is a statue of a lion ...

... the apartment complex, love playing their Wii game system, and love running around town with us! KELI -- My favorite part of Singapore was the Night Safari. Such a cool idea! I wish the zoos in the U.S. would start doing it. It's ...

... off into the Malaysian Union shortly after reclaiming it from the Japanese after WW II. The Malays then pretty quickly kicked it out. Singapore's budding economy was then raised under a Titan of a man, Lee Kuan Yew, who is still a political gray eminence ...