After our two days in Singapore, it's safe to say we love the place. They definitely have some good stuff going on - they have a mix of culture's and everyone seems to get along, the place is very clean and tidy and we felt extremely safe the whole time. You'd think with the heat and that many people packed into a small island, things could get messy but that doesn't seem to be that case at all.
After our bad food experience, we used our last energy to walk back to our hotel on Sunday night. Walked past a huge Indian festival, a great night market and then an Indian festival of a different kind - this one, a sausage fest - not a woman in sight - just thousands of Indian men all out in the street socialising. All this, on a Sunday night - seemed quite crazy. But this is a 24-7 type of place, quite alien to our quiet little 'town' of CHCH. Another surprising thing was the construction people working at 8pm, in the dark on Saturday night across from our hotel. Anyway, we had a couple of hard earned, duty-free Tiger beers and then hit the hay.
On Monday morning, we got up relatively refreshed and decided to head to Sentosa Island for the day. Had Indian for breakfast (something I could get used to) and then decided to do the sensible thing today and take the MRT (mass rapid transport) instead of walking. This is the nice and modern version of the tube, complete with videos instructing you how to avoid being killed by bombs, mind the gap and correctly ride the escalator (apparently escalator injuries are common and quite messy). The terminal to get to the island is a Mega (that's with a capital m) mall called Vivo city - this place is insane but rather cool and guaranteed to meet all your consumer needs.
You buy a $3 pass to the island (which is only a few hundred metres from the mainland) and this includes a monorail to get there + free buses/trams all day long. You can also take a cable car if willing to walk to the terminal and open your wallet. Sentosa is called Singapore's island report and is packed with fancy hotels and tourist activities. We went to the aquarium where we touched puffer fish and then went on a tour of Fort Siloso. After the British surrendered in the battle for Singapore, this became a POW camp - I can only imagine how difficult this must have been in the heat. Had a look at some of the other places without going in and then hit the beach where we sat and had a couple of beers which was great after a day in the heat. Grabbed some very nice, cheap food at Vivo and then took the MRT back to our hotel where we were picked up by our transfer driver and taken to the airport.
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