Saturday, 30 January 2010

In Singapore

- Its extremely humid in Singapore, more so than in Hermanus SA. I think it's 80% humidity here. But even though the temperature is a bit higher here at an average of +31c it seems hotter in SA. Maybe it's the smog in Singapore, blocking the sun a bit.

- Public transport here is awesome. I took the MRT (like the tube) from the airport into town and it was so clean, fast, easy and has AC. Cost less than 2 dollars from the airport to my inn. It always announces the stop in 3 different languages.

- Singapore is a very western, Asian country. Lots of people can understand English.

- I had to move out of my private room to a dorm room because I only booked for one night and my room has been reserved my others.

- I didn't sleep well in dorm room because of the music from the club next door that played till 4am. I switched to another dorm room the next day and used my ear plugs. So I slept alot better.

- I really liked the communal area at the inn. Talked to loads of people. I did more talking and met more people in the last few days than in the last few months.



- I walked around in Chinatown. As you can see, it was crazy. So many people!!! No personal at all.

- I got a foot and back massage done in a nearly mall. The next day, I felt like someone stomped all over my back. That's normal, my muscle was healing.

- I ate at alot of street stalls. Nice cheap food, but seating was outside with no AC. I brought my food back to the inn a few times cos the environment was much better to eat in.

- OMG!!! Singapore has the best airport. This is my favourate airport. I found the entertainment area that had a movie theatre, music sofas, online gaming, xbox360 and playstation3 and everything was free. I only had a few minutes to explore so there's probably more cool stuff that I haven't found yet. If you ever need to do a stop over in Asia, do it in Singapore.

2 comments:

  1. Everyone who's been to Singapore has always talked glowlingly about its airport, just as you have. Will definitely try to stop there whenever we get out to Asia next!

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  2. Maybe I should consider Singapore as part of the next Asia trip that I have not planned yet...

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