Singapore
Trip Start
Feb 25, 2008
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Trip End
May 06, 2008
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
They call SIngapopre the 'Fine City' because they fine you for everything, Jaywalking (i e crossing anywhere where there isnt a 'legal crossing', which is fyi anywhere) smoking in public, eating on public transport and even carrying durian fruit around. Durians are massive lychee like things, all spikey, but basically they STINK and are meant to taste delicious. but they are illegal. a fruit is illegal. ridiculous.
We find our way with various directions to our hostel which is the cleanest ive seen yet....its like sleeping in Ikea. Were pretty much written off for this first night so eat in a food court and want to pass out. Han and I go on 'mission find train tickets' so we can leave in a few days. when we eventually find the station its all shut. i thought were meant to be in a city???? 24 HOUR SERVICE PLEASE>!>!>
The next day we rinse the free breakfast and duss back to the trainstation to get tickets....navigating the various tubestations is interesting, but we buy the appropriately named 'tourist pass' so we can get around easily....we lose ourselves in various Plazas tring to find Solder as hol has broken her glasses...find some and then go to the famous Singapore ZOo for the rest of the afternoon. Pretty much the coolest zoo ive ever been to (out of London Zoo, and Bristol Zoo) in fact its more like Longleat in that all of teh animals are kept i HUGE enclosures completely like their natural environment. The orang-utans are my fave, i was quite gutted we couldnt see them in Borneo but we just didnt have the time to fly to teh other side of the island, so seeing them here virtually freeroaming was quite an experience. They are terrifyingly Human, one old man one just sat and watched us for about 10 minutes, watching him, watching us...i wonder what he was thinking. There was a couple snuggling and loads of little ones swinging aorund like mentalists. YOu, for a small fee, could have your photo taken with them, but we abstained, and moved along to see the Polarbears in their Air con enclosure catching live fish for din, and see the white tigers and the rhinos...it was pretty cool. I broke my flip flop which is never the best thing to do, but in a free roaming zoo it majorly sucks..i had to buy some new ones in the zoo shop, theyre very white and chav. wonderful.
That night we went to Raffles and had Singapore Slings, at just over a tenner each they are the most expensive drinks ive ever bought, but i guess its the experience you pay for, with the live band and teh building surrounding you lit up all funkily! was quite cool to go to the bar and 'put it on my card' the bartender asked if i came here often. HAHAHHAHAH! yeah right! wed all dressed up for funsies though so sat eating Roti in the food court later caused a bit of a stir.
Tomorrow we leave to go to Kuala Lumpur- another big city, another country, some more stamps in the ol'PassPort : )xxxxxx
