Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Monday, 7 February 2011
Friday 4th February
Today is the day we fly out of Singapore to Cairns in Australia via Darwin. We were told about the cyclone the day of our arrival to Singapore, so we spent a lot of today doing our research into it. Hoping it would pass before we arrived! We spent a lot of today just on the computers in the hostel sorting this blog out and drinking lots of coffee, as it was chucking it down outside. We went for one last stoll around the City of Singapore then got the subway system to the airport. and waited for our flight for 2 hours. We were told that Singapore airport is absolutely amazing but we obviously went to the wrong terminal, because it was nothing like what everyone said it would be. We got our flight with jetstar which wasn't the best airline in the world by a looong way! But we arrived in Cairns safe and sound around 9 am the next day and not a cyclone to be seen!
Thursday 3rd February
We woke up pretty late as we were all pretty shattered from the previous flight. We met the other 2 blokes that were also staying in our hostel room.
Because it was Chinese New Years day today, the streets were almost deserted which was a good thing in a way, but it was eery, which was strange. We walked to a place called little India which is a part of Singapore and is full of Indian restaurants and local Indian markets. Because the Indian people do not celebrate the Chinese new year, Little India was absolutely heaving with people. We managed to squeeze through the sweaty markets to buy some fruit. (which was desperately needed as we had had enough of rice, noodles etc) We then went back and just chilled at the hostel for a bit which gave me the opportunity to update my blog. Later that evening, We decided to go check out this huge skypark building at marina bay. It was absolutely massive! and the lift up to the ship on top of the buildings only took about 10 seconds!! our ears popped a bit as you can imagine. The views from the top of the skypark ship were unbelievable! We got there when it was getting dark, so you could see all the lights on the buildings and it made some pretty good photographs. We then left and walked around the enormous shopping mall they have there again. Then we went back to the hostel as it's too expensive to go out for a drink here haha.
Because it was Chinese New Years day today, the streets were almost deserted which was a good thing in a way, but it was eery, which was strange. We walked to a place called little India which is a part of Singapore and is full of Indian restaurants and local Indian markets. Because the Indian people do not celebrate the Chinese new year, Little India was absolutely heaving with people. We managed to squeeze through the sweaty markets to buy some fruit. (which was desperately needed as we had had enough of rice, noodles etc) We then went back and just chilled at the hostel for a bit which gave me the opportunity to update my blog. Later that evening, We decided to go check out this huge skypark building at marina bay. It was absolutely massive! and the lift up to the ship on top of the buildings only took about 10 seconds!! our ears popped a bit as you can imagine. The views from the top of the skypark ship were unbelievable! We got there when it was getting dark, so you could see all the lights on the buildings and it made some pretty good photographs. We then left and walked around the enormous shopping mall they have there again. Then we went back to the hostel as it's too expensive to go out for a drink here haha.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Wednesday 2nd February
I actually managed to wake up at 6am and didn't feel like a zombie which was good! We checked out and got to the airport and caught the flight to Singapore hastle free.
the Train system Here is the main way of getting to places (basically a Singapore version of the tube) It took us a while to work out how to use it, which involved asking a few people to help us out, but we got there in the end.
We saw the Raffles hotel, which is the most famous hotel in Singapore. We then spent the rest of our evening at the marina bay which is amazing! theres a skypark hotel there which is just 3 huge hotels with a giant ship lying across all 3 of the buildings.
Also it is Chinese new years eve today so China town and the marina bay was packed with people celebrating and fairgrounds etc.
The roads here are so clean I feel i could literally lick the floor and not catch an illness. Also there is a lot of supercars around here.
It felt a bit strange when We first arrived here. It's like a weird blend of Thailand and USA. It feels really modern, sort of like a virtual city in the middle of nowhere.
the Train system Here is the main way of getting to places (basically a Singapore version of the tube) It took us a while to work out how to use it, which involved asking a few people to help us out, but we got there in the end.
We saw the Raffles hotel, which is the most famous hotel in Singapore. We then spent the rest of our evening at the marina bay which is amazing! theres a skypark hotel there which is just 3 huge hotels with a giant ship lying across all 3 of the buildings.
Also it is Chinese new years eve today so China town and the marina bay was packed with people celebrating and fairgrounds etc.
The roads here are so clean I feel i could literally lick the floor and not catch an illness. Also there is a lot of supercars around here.
It felt a bit strange when We first arrived here. It's like a weird blend of Thailand and USA. It feels really modern, sort of like a virtual city in the middle of nowhere.
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