Yesterday I visited Singapore Zoo, for a couple of hours. I woke up at 1.30pm, realising I'd missed the best part of the day, and frantically rushed around grabbing bags, phoning people and getting organised for that evening. I jumped in a taxi after a very quick lunch and headed out of town. Taxi drivers are as opinionated in Singapore as they are in the rest of the world, and I learned a lot about this country in the journey out to the zoo and back - opinions on freedoms, traffic, smoking, drinking, the weather, anything they could come up with. All very friendly of course, though I was told that being European might have something to do with that.
When I got into the zoo, one of the first really striking enclosures held some of these - white tigers. I've always been into tigers, but I don't think I've seen white ones before. The rest of the photos are on my
Flickr account (I keep meaning to put a link in the sidebar, should be one there soon), but the general impression of the zoo was that it was extremely well laid out and spacious, informative and affordable. Both taxi drivers said I should try the Night Safari. Next time I'm in Singapore perhaps.
In the evening I met Alec and Michelle for dinner in the Arab Street area. I got there early and so went to see The Sultan Mosque, a beautiful building designed by the chap who designed Raffles Hotel. Sadly I couldn't go in as it was a Friday,
but the outside was
gorgeous enough. The photo on the right shows the mosque, the
DHL balloon and a building called
Parkview Place, or something similar, which really belongs in a Batman film. We went to look at this at the end of the evening, and a waitress was suspended from the ceiling, grabbing wine from an enormous wine rack, a jazz band was playing on a balcony, everything was gilded or coated in something that looked expensive, if tasteless. I'm looking forward to popping in for a drink next time I'm in town.
Yesterday I visited Singapore Zoo, for a couple of hours. I woke up at 1.30pm, realising I'd missed the best part of the day, and frantically rushed around grabbing bags, phoning people and getting organised for that evening. I jumped in a taxi after a very quick lunch and headed out of town. Taxi drivers are as opinionated in Singapore as they are in the rest of the world, and I learned a lot about this country in the journey out to the zoo and back - opinions on freedoms, traffic, smoking, drinking, the weather, anything they could come up with. All very friendly of course, though I was told that being European might have something to do with that.
When I got into the zoo, one of the first really striking enclosures held some of these - white tigers. I've always been into tigers, but I don't think I've seen white ones before. The rest of the photos are on my Flickr account (I keep meaning to put a link in the sidebar, should be one there soon), but the general impression of the zoo was that it was extremely well laid out and spacious, informative and affordable. Both taxi drivers said I should try the Night Safari. Next time I'm in Singapore perhaps.
In the evening I met Alec and Michelle for dinner in the Arab Street area. I got there early and so went to see The Sultan Mosque, a beautiful building designed by the chap who designed Raffles Hotel. Sadly I couldn't go in as it was a Friday, but the outside was gorgeous enough. The photo on the right shows the mosque, the DHL balloon and a building called Parkview Place, or something similar, which really belongs in a Batman film. We went to look at this at the end of the evening, and a waitress was suspended from the ceiling, grabbing wine from an enormous wine rack, a jazz band was playing on a balcony, everything was gilded or coated in something that looked expensive, if tasteless. I'm looking forward to popping in for a drink next time I'm in town.
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