Singapore - Part II

As mentioned in the last post, we enjoyed our visit to Singapore very much. Our primary touring day was overcast, which suited us just fine. We did the hop-on, hop-off bus tour which was really good value. The old and new sides of the city were apparent everywhere.

There was a great Chinatown, both old....

and new....

Little India was very colourful.

There were many attractions, but, we only had time for one. We chose Gardens by the Bay, two huge glass domes, one the Flower Dome...

the other the Cloud Forest dome, replete with a man-made waterfall.

One of the benefits of living on a boat is that you can't accumulate much stuff, there's no room. So, even though the shopping possibilities were endless and even we couldn't fail but to be impressed by the plethora of quality shopping malls, we didn't buy anything. Food is another matter, however. Maybe it was having been on boat rations for a while, but, the food seemed just amazing, every cuisine imaginable and there was a restaurant every few steps. We enjoyed lots of good food. We also went crazy in the Marks and Spencer food hall and stocked up on all our favourites!

One thing we didn't like about Singapore was the amount of tourists. This was the view of the famous half-lion/half-fish fountain at 9 a.m. Not much room left and we chose to just view it from a distance.