A week in Singapore. In shortan excellent time. Singapore is a place where you can relax, keep busy, eat, tour, travel, be entertained, even be educated, and all in complete comfort and safety.
To start, I got of the ship in Sing harbour (800 ships in port!), was whisked through customs, and driven to my 5 star hotel (about US$60 per night) and settled in. And then immediately went for a walk. I was eager to see things, needless to say it was warm and humid (it is the tropics). The place was busy, people were working and things were happening. I wandered into a shopping mall and had a look aroundand discovered that there is a universal template for shopping malls! McDonalds, Starbucks, Louis Vuttion, etc. all laid out for your consumer pleasure.
Next I planned a few tours. Let me explain, Singapore is a small island with zero physical resources. It lives on money from financial wheeling and dealing, shipping, and tourism. I suspect that tourism is not as important as it used to be, but Sing is still a great destination. If you want to get off the plane, be picked up and carried around morning, afternoon and evening, see everything that opens, shuts and moves, then come here. Cynicism aside (being a cynic is so pass) Sing is a fun place, and totally safe, with lots of things to do from passivebeing carted around in a bus, to activefast boats, scuba diving etc.
I was somewhere in between all of these. I went on several tours, all were well packaged. I did a few, fun, high speed things, and I also spent some time just wandering the streets. There are now backpackers in Sing, in days past these slackers were frowned upon (Sing is a serious working city), but now their cash is as good as anyone elses.
Here are a few pics of me doing a few things:
The Captain and pilot parking the ship in Singaporea tricky job.
Singapore from the bridge
Me in a balloon over Sing
In a cable car
One more thing to get high in.
To start, I got of the ship in Sing harbour (800 ships in port!), was whisked through customs, and driven to my 5 star hotel (about US$60 per night) and settled in. And then immediately went for a walk. I was eager to see things, needless to say it was warm and humid (it is the tropics). The place was busy, people were working and things were happening. I wandered into a shopping mall and had a look aroundand discovered that there is a universal template for shopping malls! McDonalds, Starbucks, Louis Vuttion, etc. all laid out for your consumer pleasure.
Next I planned a few tours. Let me explain, Singapore is a small island with zero physical resources. It lives on money from financial wheeling and dealing, shipping, and tourism. I suspect that tourism is not as important as it used to be, but Sing is still a great destination. If you want to get off the plane, be picked up and carried around morning, afternoon and evening, see everything that opens, shuts and moves, then come here. Cynicism aside (being a cynic is so pass) Sing is a fun place, and totally safe, with lots of things to do from passivebeing carted around in a bus, to activefast boats, scuba diving etc.
I was somewhere in between all of these. I went on several tours, all were well packaged. I did a few, fun, high speed things, and I also spent some time just wandering the streets. There are now backpackers in Sing, in days past these slackers were frowned upon (Sing is a serious working city), but now their cash is as good as anyone elses.
Here are a few pics of me doing a few things:
The Captain and pilot parking the ship in Singaporea tricky job.
Singapore from the bridge
Me in a balloon over Sing
In a cable car
One more thing to get high in.
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...okay, maybe my jokes are only funny to me at 4 in the morning?