Visiting Singapore

We’re back from our awesome vacation! We spent 2 weeks in Southeast Asia and it was AMAZING! We had to make a little change to our schedule, due to Bangkok having some heavy political protests going on. We didn’t want to deal with having to avoid protest sites, as well as the complications it was causing to public transportation. No worries though we plan to make it there eventually and do a whole trip centered in Thailand. So instead we headed to Cambodia in it’s place.

After we finally boarded we were off on the second leg of our journey 16 hours to Hong Kong. We had an hour layover, but still had to rush to make it across the huge Hong Kong airport to our connecting flight. We made it in time and set off on our 3rd leg, a 4 hour flight to Singapore.

Just to give some perspective we left at 11:15 am on Saturday 1/25 and arrived at 1:30 am Monday 1/27. Singapore is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard time here in Florida. Since they’re ahead you have to add that onto the 25 hours of travel time, meaning we lost a day and a half in travel.

If you’ve never been to Singapore It’s very modern and pretty much just like any big city  in the States, except 100x’s cleaner. They’re very strict on their littering laws and you can’t buy gum anywhere there, so you won’t find it on the streets or under tables there. A little example of their strict laws: You can’t eat or drink on public transportation. If you do you run the possibility of being fined up to $500. Due to this their buses and trains, basically any public transportation is very clean!

Our First adventure, well after resting from our day of traveling, was a food tour. We went in a small group there were only 6 of us and our guide. We started at this small restaurant near China town. At this first stop we ate frog legs and porridge, stingray, and some stir fry noodles and beef, with some kind of bread. It was all pretty good although I didn’t care for the porridge.

The location of the The Gardens was right along the water. Across the water was a beautiful unobstructed view of the Downtown area of Singapore. One of the main attractions of the skyline of downtown was the Singapore Flyer.

The highlight of our visit to Gardens by the Bay was the Super Tree Grove. These were huge tree sculptures, with a walkway through them near the top with great views of the city. In the background of the top right picture you can see the Marina Bay Sands hotel I talked about earlier in the daylight.

The last garden we visited was the Chinese Garden and Turtle museum. It was not as cool at the Super Tree Grove, but it was pretty. The turtle museum was cool and we got to feed the turtles. It was actually quite funny watching the turtles swimming is a mass group to get the food. Those cute little turtles can hustle when it comes to food.