Four days in Singapore

I hope you like my next country as much as I do. This week I flew just down south to Singapore.

The port of Singapore was founded on Feb. 6, 1819 by a British guy named Raffles; 194 years and one day later, I was born! It’s really small. About 331 Singapores could fit into Montana. Yet, it has more than five million people living there, five times that of Montana! I was lucky to go and can’t wait to tell you all about the trip! We took a short 45 minute plane ride from KL. When we got to Singapore, we took the subway to our hotel. Shortly after, we walked to Chinatown. It was loud and busy, like a mob. There are little stalls that are on both sides of the street. Chinese New Year is coming up and almost every stall was filled with Chinese New Year decorations. We looked around Chinatown and got dinner at a hawker stall. I had Hainanese food, steamed chicken and rice.

At about 8 pm, we hopped back on the subway to go to the Singapore Flyer. The Singapore Flyer is a giant Ferris wheel, the biggest in the world! It may look awesome, but it only goes half a mile an hour. It was completely boring! I call it the Singapore Snoozer.

The next day, we tackled Little India. It was like Chinatown but not as busy. And they sell food and things from India, hence the name. It was interesting, but I was really hot and tired so we took a bus tour around Singapore. It was really fun because we got to sit up on the open air second story. The bus dropped us off at Gardens by the Bay, a giant garden with huge, glowing trees in the center. I liked the Colonial Garden because I got to smell the plants brought over by the British, like pepper, coffee and cocoa.

On our third day, we went to the Singapore Zoo. There are 2,800 animals at the park! Right as we got there, we saw the zookeepers feeding the monkeys and we followed along to watch some of the other animals get fed too: otters, tapirs and hippos. Then we saw the elephant show. The elephants did a lot of cool things, like lifting logs and crushing coconuts. After that, we went over to the night safari. We had dinner and watched a fire show with fire jugglers. The Night Safari was like the zoo, but for all nocturnal animals. After dinner, we went to the amphitheater and saw the animal show. There were otters who were trained to recycle! Then we strolled along the cement paths, watching the animals. My favorite part was the bat house. There were bats all over the place. And they were huge, like a foot long, hanging just a meter over us, gripping the nets upside down, and sleeping. We were tired of walking at this point, so hopped on a tram to the entrance. As we took it back, we saw more animals like tapirs, giraffes, and hippos. It was really unique to see all the nocturnal animals.

On our last full day, we took the monorail to Sentosa Island, which is basically a giant theme park.  First we went to the S.E.A Aquarium. I’m really glad we went. There are several domed passage ways with fish swimming all around. There are over 800 species making up more than 100,000 marine animals there. I really liked seeing the hammerhead sharks swimming around the last domed passageway. From there, we went to the MegaZip Adventure Park where I did the ClimbMax. It’s a giant ropes course 16.5 feet off the ground that you have to work your way through. It was really, really awesome and I want to go back and do the second level that’s 33 feet off the ground! I enjoyed my trip to Singapore. Sentosa Island was by far my favorite. I didn’t like Chinatown, it was too busy for me, and now I’m happy to be “home.” I can’t wait for you to see my next blog post – all about Chinese New Year! Bye for now! 🙂