Singapore.

We took another public bus to get us to to Singapore. This time thankfully the driver was fully alert! We drove to the Malaysian boarder and got stamped out of the country before jumping back on the bus to drive across the bridge to get to Singapore. We had been warned that Te boarder is very strict about what you can bring in so we were all very anxious about what they might do when passing through security! You can bring in alcohol, more than 19 cigarettes, prescription drugs all because of the high tax Singapore puts on these, but you also can't bring in chewing gum. We all made it through with only one of it group having to have their bag searched for a rouge can of beer. But yay new stamp and no charge!

We got dropped off at the bus station in Singapore and we were going to take taxis to our hotel but there were none anywhere! So we had to walk and get very sweaty! It wasn't far luckily. 

We checked in and then headed out for lunch. We are in a food court and it was amazing! I was preparing for expensive food in Singapore but this was all so cheap! There was so much choice and it was so clean, very different to the food halls in Malaysia. I had a delicious wonton noodle made my a couple of cute old men for just 4 dollars which is just £2. I then had a char sui bao and a custard bao for a dollar. Yum!! 

After lunch we took a walk around to see the sights. We walked though Raffles hotel which is famous for the invention of the Singapore sling. It was an old colonial looking building and it was beautiful. I had every intention of going back to have a $32 cocktail later! 

We then walked past the war memorial and on to the marina bay sands. Everywhere we walked it was so noticinle clean and well kept. I loved it! It was so well ordered! Such a change from the crappy uneven pavements with random holes in on the rest of my Asia trip! Was a great change to not have to constantly look down at where you are walking! At the marina bay sands we could see the hotel where our evenings drinks would start at a skybar. The view was amazing and the city landscape was a beautiful change.

We walked though the old English part along the river and like KL this part actually looked English. 

We took the subway home and it was so clean and well ordered, of course. It was great. No pushing and very efficient, it was great! After a super quick change we took the subway again to the bay front as we were going to watch a light show. I had no idea what to expect from this light show but when we got near we saw all these huge tree like structures glowing all different colours, it was amazing! We took a seat at the bottom of one of these trees and laid back and waited for it to start. It was a 15 minute show set to music. It was all pretty abstract, but very serene and awe inspiring. 

We had another pretty cheap dinner and then walked through the very organised street to get to the skybar. We had to queue at the bottom of course and then we made it up! It was so busy but the views were great. There was a sky walk which had better views right along the edge of the building but that cost $15! But our views were great as were the $25 cocktails. Bizarrely I met a couple of Swedes from the kiwi bus up there!

After the skybar we left to go a club which also had a skybar! This is obviously  a big thing here, and I can see why the views are amazing as was the weather. We stayed there and danced with not so many other people and incredibly loud music supplied by dj modium. Terrible name! Tracy our Bristolian seems to be a firm favourite out here with the locals, and got clamped on to by a real gem who told us he doesn't but drinks in the club but smuggles vodka in in his shoe. Hahaha! He was very special!

We crawled back and got ready to leave Singapore to get to the airport at 8am! I loved Singapore and would love to come back and see more of its beautiful cleanliness!