Archive for the ‘Singapore’ Category
With nothing really “planned” we set out to the city after breakfast. We started in Chinatown where the streets were filled with tourists and shop owners trying to sell their stuff (“Can I offer you a discount?) and which also boasts the Indian Sri Mariamman temple. We then walked to Merlion Park with the Merlion, THE symbol of Singapore, via the Singapore river and Raffles statue. From Merlion Park we had a view of the newly build Marina Bay Sands Hotel and the grandstands for the opening of the Youth Olympics that were to open later that day. Because of the Olympics a lot of streets were closed so we decide to take the MRT away from all the action to Fort Canning, a park on a hill where we found our only two geocaches.
By now it was time to head back to the airport where we had our dinner and got our luggage back from storage. We changed clothes in the pool changing room and took the shuttle to T1 check-in. After going through immigration and security we were ready to board for our 12 hour flight to Frankfurt. Fortunately our flight landed on time so we could change terminals and board the flight to Brussels that left 1 hour 20 minutes later.
We slept in and had a buffet breakfast before going to the MRT subway trains beneath the our airport hotel. After changing trains 2 times we took a bus until we reached MacRitchie reservoir. As we started the walk we were greeted by about 20-25 monkeys and further down the path we saw a skink and later a 50cm monitor. After about 5 Km we reached the Treetop walk, a walkway suspended 25m above the ground giving a view of the upper part of the trees. As this walk is one way the total length from the entrance of the tree walk to the bus stop was more than 7 Km.
We took the bus and MRT to Orchard Road, one of Singapore’s shopping districts and walked to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.
It’s the end of the Australian leg of our trip. We returned our rental car and checked in for our two flights of the day. First there was a 3 hour flight back to Perth where we had to change from the domestic to international terminal by bus, then it was a 5:3O hour flight to Singapore. By the time we could go to sleep it was close to midnight.
