Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Singapore, the new city.




The flight from Cape Town to Singapore was 11 hours and one of these days I will actually sleep on a plane. I don't think Don got much sleep either but they have movies on demand so we got to watch a lot of fairly new stuff. We arrived in Singapore at 5 am and hopped a train to the city, into an area called Little India where we were staying. Singapore is 5 million people in a fairly small area so no matter where you go it is busy but amazingly clean. Public transport was a breeze so we saw quite a bit f the city and also did a tour one day. You have never seen so many shopping centers in your life though and I am sure that shopping is the number one pasttime. Despite all the concrete the city is still fairly green as they dedicate space to parks, all the building just keeps going higher and higher. Not the cheapest place to be though, food is inexpensive but beer is not, or are rooms. 4 days was more than enough, we have flights booked to Siem Reap in Cambodia, then to Vietnam for a 17 day tour, 1 week in Malaysia and then off to Australia.

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