Getting there is half the fun

Kung comes to visit!

With a little bit of time (1 month) to travel the world before he is off to Finland in May Kung decided to come check up on me and see the city for a few days. I took the MRT out to Changi airport to meet him at noon. The transit here is supposed to be really efficient but somehow it took me almost 2 hours to get there! But anyway, we found each other no problem and wasted no time hanging around at the stale airport. We went into town to Bugis to get some food at a Hawker stand. I got laughed at, as usual, when I was trying to get some Chinese food, but that's part of the fun of it, right? I like going to the Hawker centres because they are not so clean and sterile as other parts of the city, and plus there are hardly any tourists at them (usually I am the only white guy!).

MRT station at the airport: (empty because, well, it's the airport)


We walked around the Bugis area for a bit then headed over to Sentosa Island and became tourists for the afternoon. You get to take a cable car to the island and get a good view of downtown and the ports. We spent the day just walking around the island and the beaches, which are actually quite nice.


The southernmost point of continental Asia?!?! - only because it is connected by bridge to Malaysia though!


Other than walking all along Siloso beach we also went to Underwater World. There are lots of cool tropical fish there, and even a long underwater tunning through a fish tank! (unfortunately none of the pics turned out:(

Probably the highlight of the day was the huge, multi-million dollar "magical" fountain at Sentosa. It is basically a giant fire and light display watched by thousands outside in the jungle. There is one similar in Disney land where they have a light show on spraying water, but this one was a thousand times better!

We took the cable car back into town at night and saw all of the beautiful city lights, then we went to Chinatown to get some late night grub. Apparently what is written in Chinese for China Town is much different than China Town in English...Kung says it reads "water bull town"?!?! This was my first time being to China Town so I was a little surprised to see the oodles of western tourists here late at night. Anyway we went to an streetside outdoor restaurent for some beer and noodles before heading all the way back to Clementi and the university - a good end to a great day!

Posted by Evan at 7:10 AM