SINGAPORE: THE ISLAND CITY

I was lucky enough khổng lồ get the chance to lớn visit Singapore on my way down to nước australia (thanks lớn some very inexpensive flights on Scoot Airlines. My time in the country was brief, but not so brief that I couldn’t learn a bit about where I was.

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When you enter Singapore you are reminded that the penalty for bringing drugs into the country is death, and once you’re in Singapore you had best watch what you’re doing because you’re being watched – always. CCTV is everywhere & is used to monitor everything from loan sharks lớn illegal parkers.

It’s a very clean place and you can be fined for everything from spitting lớn jaywalking (and FYI Singapore is not down with the gays – not yet, at least).

But let’s move on from all the laws (and did I mention the outrageous cost of beer?) & focus on some other things – lượt thích how incredibly hot and humid it is here. I am literally thirsty all the time. It seems that no amount of fluid can quench the thirst brought on by the Singaporean weather (which can turn on a dime).

Overall, I enjoyed Singapore (and not just because I got lớn hang out with some Halfway Anywhere readers in the city’s highest craft brewery, LeVeL33). Will I go back? Probably. Would I live there? Probably not (I’m not down with humidity – unless we’re in Brazil).

Press for Green Man? This could get funky.The old and the new.Tall reflective buildings. Tall reflective buildings everywhere.Blazing hot outside, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be an ice skating rink.So what’s the fine for durian?Singapore metro.The Marina bay Sands from below.Chinatown Singapore.Little India Singapore.

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The Merlion.Clarke Quay.Two awesome PCT hikers who showed me a great time.The light art exhibition going on around the bay.The Merlion & the Marina cất cánh Sands at sunrise.Shiny pandas.Grabbing a feed at a local hawker center.Looking down on the Gardens by the bay from the Marina bay Sands.The pool atop the Marina cất cánh Sands. I wasn’t supposed khổng lồ be here.On the boat to Pulau Ubin.Renting a xe đạp Pulau Ubin (an island lớn the north of the city) – worth it.CCTV everywhere. Everywhere.

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The Garden Rhapsody Light Show at the Gardens by the cất cánh as performed by the Supertrees.