Monday/Tueday in Singapore!

Hi All!

Its 9:10 am here in Singapore and I am slowly getting ready for the day. Its been a couple of very long days lately and last night I finally got more than 4 hours of sleep.

Yesterday I met Karla, and she and I explored the city. Its pretty, but as I had heard, a bit dull. Nothing too exciting about Singapore. Its not especially clean, not especially fantastic, so I won't be staying here too long. Karla and I wandered around, trekked through Little India which has lots of shops, and the Arab district, saw the Merlion (which was under construction for cleaning), walked through the Esplande, and worked on our tans ^_^. At about 4pm, we headed towards the Singapore Night Safari (which was a train ride to the bus station, and then a bus to the park). We had lunch in the mall in the bus station, and even though it was mall food, it was super yummy. We made it to the park, and I got my ticket, and met Charmain in line (who just so happened to be staying in our hostel at BetelBox)

Singapore Night Safari is really just a zoo (with nocturnal animals) in the dark, which sounded like a really neat idea. We went to a show, Creatures of the Night, which was one of the big things that the park advertises. It wasn't too bad, though it was kinda short. Afterwards, we walked some of the trails - a leopard trail, and a fishing cat trail. Then we hopped on the tram for a nice ride around all the other enclosures - saw tapirs, lotsa different kinds of deer, a couple of rhinos, some hippos, etc. It was kinda interesting, but you couldn't take any pictures because everything was in the dark! The whole zoo was kinda like playing "Where's Waldo" with the animals - they are not so easy to find in the dark =P

So today we are off to Sentosa Island, and I think tomorrow I am heading off to Melaka (Malacca/Melacca/ Malakka/etc) in Malaysia!