In an attempt to get over my jet lag I headed out into the sunshine with an aussie I met at my hostel during breakfast. We decide to make our way to the Harbour front to see what was happening there. The subway system in Singapore is incredible, fast, clean and really easy to navigate. The harbour is a little crazy, beautiful palm trees and blue blue water surrounded by huge, hideous cranes (hundreds of them). Had my first real meal at a food court near by, fried chinese dumplings in this tasty sauce that made my tongue go numb for a little while, and then headed off to Sentosa island. I was pretty disappointed by it. Again, beautiful, but very fake and very commercial. Tried out the luge, it was rather dull, but the chair lift ride up was weel worth the price. From the top you have an amazing view of the harbour with it hundreds of ships.
The next day I headed off to the zoo. IT WAS AMAZING!!! Coolest place I've seen in ages. It's set up so well so that no matter where the animals are in there habitats you can wander around to get a better view. Most of them offer a full 360 view of the animals. Highlights for me were:
- Otters (big surprise eh): so cute and so manu of them (7 or 8). Four of them were playing around and really reminded me of Mia and Percy.
- Polar Bears: one was bored and waiting around for feeding time and so was bounding around his tank and coming right up to the glass over and over(scaring the hell out of unsuspecting small children).
- Orangutans: their habitat is set up so that you can climb a flight of stairs and stand in the middle of it!!! They literally swing around in the trees all around you.
- Cotton tailed monkeys: These guys sit around in the trees at the entrance. I walked into the zoo and stopped in the shade to check out the map and looked up to find one staring at me. So curious.
On my third day in Singapore I met up with Suzi and Andy from England. We went to wander around Orchard St which is suppose to be this amazing shopping district, but having just come from NA it all seemed kind of boring. Looked a lot like any other huge shopping strip with over priced stores. Also checked out the botanical gardens and strolled through a Uni campus (accidentally lol). We then headed off to the famous Night Safari near the zoo. It was interesting, but not nearly as cool as I had hoped. It, again, is really well set up and more interesting than anything I've seen before in NA, but compared to the zoo it kind of fell flat. Did see some amazing tribal dance performances with fire eating and spraying, which were pretty great.
I liked Singapore, but was very excited to move on to a more exotic place (and I was not let down! see next post)
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