Day 92 - Singapore

Today I did the tourist thing - checked out the heritage area of Singapore, around the harbour where the founder of the city, Raffles, originally landed. I wondered around for a few hours, taking pictures and chatting away to random old people (they are all so nice here).

Singapore's answer to the Sydney Opera House - yes, it is a huge Durien



View across the bay of the Durien



You ahaven't seen Singapore properly if you haven't seen the Merlion...



THe merlion and me



Clock tower, stormy sky



The guy that started it all, Raffles



The boat jetty



In the evening I went on the 'food walk'- a tour of the local culture and cuisine organised by the hostel owner, Tony. We ate lots (and lots and lots), then drank some (ok, quite a lot), then went to a few bars and generally had lots of fun. I enjoyed trying some random new food (sadly no deepfried bugs though) and learned many interesting things about Singapore - for example you need a prescription to buy chewing gum (?) and the lift in the blocks of flats have 'urine sensors' and if someone pees in the lift, the lift locks down, all the alarms in the building go off, and a bunch of police rush in and arrest the offending party, who gets 200 hrs community service wearing a bright green jacket (just so everyone around knows they are a lift pee-er). Random.

Singapore after sunset



Ice Kacang (thanks uncle)



Mmm, beer



Steve, Lucia, Helen, me and Lee



Me, Lucia and Tony