Day 151 Singapore (Ferris Wheel and Night Safari)

Now today was not all about eating cakes but I did try a few. The food courts in Singapore are vast and so inexpensive you could end up eating a lot of cakes!

Daniele from Germany and davie from Ireland who had been in my company last night were going to the newly opened biggest Ferris wheel (think London Eye) in the world this morning and kindly asked me along.......So did you hear the one about the Scotman, Germanwoman and Irishman who went to see the wheel.....took a stop too early on the underground didnt' they!

It was well worth it though. The wheel takes half an hour to go around.

As we walked along I noticed the air guitar championships are here in the summer. Never tried the air guitar myself (not that I'm admitting to anyway) but its clearly popular here.

In the evening I went along to the Singapore Zoo night safari (thanks for the tip John). Now whatever your feelings are on Zoos I beleive Singapore have got it as good as it can. Plenty natural habitat and its hard as you walk past to see any fences as there are none! Between you and the animals is simply a walled moat which you cannot see. They have managed to breed a number of the animals which are close to extinction which is a credit to the conditions they are kept in. I've no pics except this rhino as falsh photography not allowed. I enjotyed the spotted hyenas enclosure where I discovered they are hunters not scavengers. They were also having a right old barny over (its my piece of dead gazelle not yours).

Tomorrow I fly to Thailand and start off in diving and beach mecca Phuket....

Day 150 Singapore

As I waited for my name to be called out at breakfast in the hostel I heard the name "Paul". Why it was none other than the Paul who had been on the same safari as me in Uluru.

Instead of the usual first day orienteering to get to know a new city I was given a guided tour by Paul. Highlights were the food markets and there are millions of electronics stores at ridiculously cheap prices. Although they never display the price and look to barter. You really need to know the price of the camera etc from the internet before you get into negotiations as you will have the "Im a tourist, rip me off" badge on.

A visit to the Singapore art museum before we all went back to the foodmarkets and then sat outside the hostel swapping stories. Paul, Daniele, Christian and myself ate plenty chocolate thanks to Christian whose girlfriend works in the Lint chocolate factory in Germany . Enough said.

Day 149 Singapore

Snow back at the croft (thanks for the picture Dad)....a different climate altogether in the Southern Hemisphere!!

Today was the flight from Cairns to Singapore and the start of my Souteast Asia trip. Where better than to stay in the rich cultural arab street area at "Sleepy Sams" hostel. Although I did not sleep that well adjusting to the 95 percent humidity!