Location: Singapore
Hosts: Dennis and Vet
text by vet
There are plenty of maps of singapore and brochures detailing recommended activities, sights to see while in Singapore at the immigration counter.
Aug. 30, morning — On board Bus 32 bound for Bugis train station. We hoped to catch the 9:00 a.m. train for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia…
On board same bus. Some street sights… River Valley road is where our INN [fernloft city inn was located].
We missed the train for KL, which left at 8:40.. We decided to get breakfast at one of the first “carenderia-like” establishment we found… The photo below is a kind of fried rice which was sweetened by the juices of a “humba-like” dish. The “humba-like” dish was sold separately, but was just placed on top of the rice..
Coffee been at One Fullerton. This is right across the Merlion Park
left: penne in spicy tuna sauce |right: roast turkey sandwich
Satchmo sitting on a coffee bean menu, waiting for the rain to stop so we can approach the merlion up close.
I went to this stone statue facing One Fullerton which explains the significance of the merlion… Satchmo is holding a 50-cent singaporean coin.
Braving the drizzle… The merlion upclose.
After we left the merlion park, we went to the asian civilization museum. At that time there was an exhibition called “Hunters and Collectors: The Origins of the Southeast Asian Collection.” The buddha was one of the many on display at the exhibition… We only chanced upon this place and luckily they had free admission at that time. There were lotsa nice pieces there from southeast asian countries…clothes, gold, ceramics, weapons among other things. Unfortunately, both our cameras went low batt on us. We stayed here for an hour or so because of the nice displays. http://www.acm.org.sg/exhibitions/eventdetail.asp?eventID=522
Part of the activities at the museum on that day. Little kids demonstrating some martial arts that originated in southeast asia…
At the night safari… This was at the night safari’s souvenir shop. The place was jampacked with tourists looking at and buying little trinkets…The ref magnet i bought here cost me $6.90, but can be bought for a dollar or two sa chinatown.
Inside a cable car going to singapore’s mount faber, which is actually just a hill. Here, one will get a good view of the city.
Inside the cable car going to mount faber.
A viewing deck at mount faber…
Super kahangin dinhi dapita..natumba si satchmo pag.take sa picture… may gani wala gipalid, hehe…
if i’m not mistaken, the building na makita is harbour front center [gateway to sentosa by cable car]. where we came from… one side will take you to mount faber..the other side will take you to sentosa… before ka adto sentosa, sa mount faber ka paunahon adto for view of the city…
The cable car ride going to sentosa na gyud…satchmo holding flyer / map of sentosa…
Satchmo inside the tour bus. We availed of a package tour to sentosa na lang to save time. SGD71 include back/forth cable car ride from harbour front center to mount.faber, then sentosa, back to harbor front center, admission to underwaterworld, dolphin show, cineblast [3D], luge and skyride…
Some fish on display at the underwater world singapore
Luge and sky ride… one of the nice facilities at sentosa… the luge for those who’d like speed and sky ride – for relaxing view of sentosa
Us waiting for dennis. The luge ride was so fun that dennis went for another round…
The sky ride.
I forgot which beach in sentosa this was… There are 3 beaches in sentosa…There’s even one called palawan beach
Sentosa’s version of the merlion.
Very, very late lunch sa subway, sentosa
the whole sentosa tour started mga 10 a.m. and we finished touring the whole place at around 3…
Singaporean currency…
After sentosa, we went to chinatown. The man was the attendant of the store where we bought souvenir shirts…
Vet riding the luge.
Dennis with the Merlion.
Hosts with satchmo at the end sa underwater world. Naa manghagad na staff ug free picture services 3 times ka pa.actingon… inig gawas nimo kay makita dayon imong nawong display sa ila souvenir shop… you can then choose to have souvenir items done using any of the pix for a fee [photo, keychain…etc]… This one 5″x8″ pix will cost you $s15…
