Two days in Singapore

What an amazing place! We only had a short amount of time to spend here so we made the most of both days exploring this interesting (and expensive!) city by foot & train. Our home base was in Little India from where we could get anywhere in the city quickly & easily by 'mass rapid transit' or the MRT. Our first stop was the promenade along Marina Bay where we were greeted by an incredible show of lights and a bright waterworks show over the water. We checked out the impressive Christmas decorations in the fancy 'Shoppes of Marina Bay Sands' mall then somehow found our way up to the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel (the spaceship-looking building below) where we were able to see the incredible nighttime view of the city lights.

 

We spent an afternoon walking around the "Gardens on the Bay" and enjoyed a tasty meal in the park.

 

Clarke Quay was a great place for an evening stroll, drink & dinner - though we could only afford the strolling part! We found there were so many great spots like this scattered around the city it would take at least a week to take it all in, which we plan to do someday when we're not on a backpackers' budget..

The Singapore Zoo is meant to be one of the best in the world but I think we're becoming zoo snobs after having seen so many animals in the wild this year. It was still pretty cool to see the naturalistic, open exhibits & free ranging orangutans as well as many of the animals during feeding time.

another family photo!

We walked and walked and walked, taking in as much as we could in our two day visit and really enjoyed this vibrant, modern city/country. We picked up on a few of Singapore's strange laws while we were there such as: selling chewing gum is illegal, you can be fined for not flushing a public toilet and logging onto an unsecured wireless connection is considered hacking.