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So, I moved on from lovely Melaka, and headed to the next country on my list-Singapore! The 'fine' city of Singapore. Journey there was easy and it took about 4 hours on the coach. Got into Singapore and got an oyster card type thing for the tube there and headed into the city. The tube is great there. all airconditioned and on time and clean! Headed to our hotel which had a swimming pool-yipee!! Had a lovely swim then went to explore the place. Singapore is sooo different to the rest of South East Asia, I totally forgot I was still in Asia. All signs are in English, the streets are spotless!! Everyone speaks English and there's like a thousand shops!! They have Topshop and HMV and all sorts, so exciting!!!
So, Singapore is great and all but u get fined for EVERYTHING!!!! It's crazy! So u know that chewing gum is banned here, its because chewing gum kept getting stuck to the train lines and costing the government lots of money to fix, so they just banned it! Can u believe it?! The streets are sooooo clean!It's because, if u throw rubbish and get caught, u get fined, then if u do it again u have to wear a bright yellow jacket and sweep the streets! ha ha! Crazy, but it works! U just get fined for everything, no drinking or eating on the bus or tubes -not even a sip of water or u'll ge fined, no jay walking, no noisyness on the trains/buses or u'll get fined! Such a 'fine' crazy place! ha ha.
Only stayed in Singapore for 3 days so spent the next day walking miles and miles around the main tourist places, so hot!! The sun was shining down and doesnt set in singapore till 7.30. There's no season in singapore so its always sunset at the same time-how odd! Went to the famous Raffles hotel for a look around and to China town and the colonial district.
The next day was the BEST! Spent the whole day at Singaopre Zoo and Night Safari. It was amaing! Everyone always says that Singapore Zoo is one of the best in the world and they are sooo right! i'm not really into Zoo's and animals and that, but it was cool! It's all pretty open and the animals are so close its crazy! Got there early in the morning because they have this thing were u can have a buffet breakfast and right next to u the orangutans come down and have their breakfast! so fun! then a man comes round with a snake and u can take ur picture with the orangutans behind u, so cool!!! And the breakfast was yummy to, kept me full all day! I got to watch the elephants have their morning bath and u can then feed them, they were so cute! watched several shows and went to lots of feeding times for the animals, the best was the white tigers who were jumping up and down in the water catching their food, and the polor bear-which was huge!!! It swam around trying to catch a fish and just couldn't catch it for ages, ha ha. then when the zoo closes the night safari starts and u can see all the nocturnal animals and some of the same animals at night. They had a tram ride that does most of the safari park in like 45 mins, it was amazing! All the animals were still so lively and awake. Really great day! Got back real late and then packed up all my stuff as had to get a really early morning flight here to bali.
The flight to Bali was fine, only 2 and a half hours. Singapore airprot-like the whole of Singapore-was really posh and big, really nice. So got to Bali ok and feel like I'm right back in South East Asia with the occasional smell of sewers, shop people hasseling u to buy stuff, cheap food and taxis, dogs and cats roaming around-yuk- and 'not so clean' streets. Am glad to be back! ha ha.
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