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Now i am in Singapore!!!!
We only arrived a few hours ago after a 9 hour day train (which i slept thru most of!) so all we have done is gone for dinner. Our hostel is lovely (altho a lot more expensive than we are used to at ten pounds a night). It's really modern and CLEAN! and the rooms are quite groovy.
The city itself is very clean and fresh (presumably due to its strongly enforced rules to do with no littering or smoking in public places) and the no jaywalking rule means that cars actually stop at zebra crossings which is a novelty for us as usually we fear for our lives every time we have to cross the road in a lot of the other places we've been to.
Tonight we ventured to little India for dinner, which was just like being in India! We went to an amazing (and cheap) place for dinner where we had a banana leaf put in front of us on which large portions of rice and other indian curries was dolloped onto, along with a never ending supply of chipati's and popperdoms. And we had to eat it the traditional Indian way with our hands (Faye ended up with most of it all over her!!) Altho it was a little spicy for me it was delicious and we are all stuffed now!
Kuala Lumur was amazing too. I really loved being back in a bustling city again.
We met Dave, Abby and Mark on the bus there from Lang Kawi (we loved our bus, the seats reclined almost into a bed!! Luxury!!). They took us to The Green Hut which is the hostel they had stayed in before and the hostel managed to squeeze us all into a dorm room there.
The first night we did some market shopping (which is always an amusing experience as u are being shouted at from every direction to come and look at different stalls) and had dinner and went to a pub near our hostel with our new friends and some of their friends. The pub was covered in christmas decorations and blaring out cheesy tunes! We loved it! Really getting into the christmas spirit now!!
The next day we went to Menara in the morning, which is the 4th highest building in the world. it had a fantastic view (see picture). And then checked out a huge shopping centre which had a theme park inside it!
In the evening we checked out china town for dinner and then met up with some people we had met the night before and the group from the hostel to go to a club.
We had a great night but we didn't get in till 4 and had to be up at 7 to catch the train this morning...to cut a long story short we very almost missed it..but we didn't luckily!!
So now we are in singapore, but we don't have much time here so we are going to try and squeeze it all in tomo...another early morning then!! Fun Fun!
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