Day Three: A bit of Little India, Fort Canning Park, China Town and the Singapore Flyer

On day three we decided to explore two of the temples in Little India  that were a very short walking distance of each other. The first was the Sri Krishnan Temple which wasn’t even in the guide book but was beautiful. The detail on the building was just amazing. The second was just up the [...]

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Day Two: Singapore Zoo and Night Safari

Singapore Zoo has a world famous zoo and is the only place we had ever heard of a night safari so we thought we’d take a look. We spent 7 hours looking at the animals. The zoo itself was good, much like Paignton Zoo and seemed to look after the animals. The animals we spent [...]

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Day One: Singapore River and the Colonial District

On our first day we decided to head down to the Singapore river and explore the surrounding Colonial District.  We got the MRT downtown and headed along the river past Boat Quay (a lovely looking stretch of restaurants by the water) and Sir Raffles’ statue where he first landed in Singapore.  It was very hot [...]

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Our First Night: A Curry in Little India

Our hostel was in the Little India district of Singapore. As we were tired we didn’t want to venture far to eat, so we looked up the local restaurants and wandered to a back street not far away. The street was full of Indian take aways and restaurants however because it was off the main [...]

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Were in Singapore

After a delightful 5 hour coach journey from Plymouth to London we were able to chill for a bit and join some old friends for a drink or two.  After a few hours of catching up we tubed it to Heathrow, checked in, made some final quick calls to the family and waited to board [...]

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