For our final day in Singapore we went to the Botanic Gardens. We saved this ’til the last day as it was something we were really looking forward to and we thought it would be nice to spend time outdoors before another long flight.
Getting to the gardens was easy as the bus went from just [...]
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Day Four: Botanic Gardens, Little India, Arab Quater & the Flight to Oz
Posted in Australia, Brisbane, Singapore, Stop Overs on Saturday, 2 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day Three: A bit of Little India, Fort Canning Park, China Town and the Singapore Flyer
Posted in Singapore on Thursday, 30 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Day Two: Singapore Zoo and Night Safari
Posted in Singapore on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Day One: Singapore River and the Colonial District
Posted in Singapore on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Our First Night: A Curry in Little India
Posted in Singapore on Monday, 27 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
