After arriving in Singapore around 2130 Sunday night, we decided that rather than running around finding a hostel so late, we'd just stay at the airport all night like Tom Hanks in Terminal! As one of our previous blogs high-lighted, Singapore is an incredible airport with lots of free internet, places to sleep, restaraunts, and lots to do. This time, I stayed up all night making plans for the Asian part of our travels and Milessa got to sleep a little bit.
We found very quickly how strict Singapore is! No food on the trams! It's not a 'FINE' city for no reason- luckily we didn't get any though! With our 2 day unlimited transit passes we cruised through Singapore stopping wherever we felt like. We experienced strange culture shock going from villages in The Philippines to one of the wealthiest city/countries in the world. The buildings and architecture were amazing, and getting around Singapore we found to be very easy.
The cost of Singapore was also shocking. Coffees for 6-10$ (skipped that), chiropractors for $180 initial appointments (skipped that), hostels for $55 pp (skipped that), and the list goes on.
We had lots of fun marvelling at the city and buildings before finding free wifi for a few min outside of a Starbucks (stolen!) to book a little hostel outside the CBD. We ended up having to share a little 4-bed dorm with 2 German guys but they were out gambling most of the night which worked out nicely.
The next morning we were out early to go to Sentosa Island. It's this little island full of theme parks (Universal Studios), beaches, sights, and restaurants to eat at, supposedly a must-see in Singapore. First we went out through some massive malls, like 5-6 floors, most underground, pretty crazy. Eventually we found Sentosa Island and walked around getting lost forever.
Afterwards we took this free little boat cruise taxi thing up the canal and got to see a bunch of fun stuff around Singapore from the water.
Since the last hostel felt a little grimy with oddball locals staying there, we moved to a different hostel in another part of town called the Gap Year Hostel for our last night in Singapore & got a good rest before hopping onto a bus to Malaysia the next day.
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