After much time spent in developing countries, Kelly and I ended our trip with a few days in Singapore. What’s different here? Well everything costs a heck of a lot more here, it’s a whole lot cleaner, I haven’t really seen many motorbikes, and you can’t buy gum. Just to name a few.
All in all there isn’t a whole lot to do here except to go out on the town or go to the zoo. We did both.
Our first night in town, we were both dying for some Mexican food, so we headed over to Riverside where we hit up Cafe Iguana, home to delicious margaritas. Luckily we hit happy hour (it is until 9 pm) and our jug was half off.
Back in the developed world, we had to brave public transport to get there.
We checked out some neighborhoods including the super cute Arab Street area.
We also partook in the famous Singapore Slings at the Raffles Hotel. These things cost $22, but when in Singapore…I am not sure what the drink is, but I think it has gin and whole lot of grenadine.
Once we had our expensive drink, we headed out to other bar scenes including Clarke Quay, home to an odd bar called The Clinic, which is decked out like a hospital and you can drinks in IVs. Weird! We also went to a backpacker favorite…the Prince of Wales where we drank Hoegaardens. Yum.
Throughout our time we saw some odd things…
A Dengue Fever Alert
Fish Spa, where you can pay to dip your feet in a tank and have the fish eat the dead skin off your body.
On Sunday Kelly and I met up with a friend of my mom’s from her quilt guild and her husband, who kindly offered to shuttle us to the Singapore Zoo for the day. This zoo is awesome in that it has free roaming exhibits, which means you enter into a habitat and you are right with the animals. Obviously, they don’t let you enter the tiger’s cage, but we got to be up close with sloths, flying foxes, lemurs, and more. Plus the orangutan exhibit is literally in the trees above you. You could even get pooed on by an orangutan. Sweet As!
After the zoo, we headed back to Sue and Dave’s
where we got to swim in the pool.
AND we got to have a dinner party/BBQ with their Aussie neighbors, which was fantastic.
They had adorable kids.
They also had a GREAT fishtank.
THANKS SUE AND DAVE!!!
On my last day we did the Flyer, which is the London Eye of Singapore and currently the largest Ferris Wheel thing in the world. Although this isn’t for long as China is building a bigger one.
Singapore was fun and now Kelly and I have parted ways, which is sad. What will I do without my travel buddy?
