Infinite Singapore

We are in Australia!!! Sitting in the hostel in Perth, free wifi is apparently too much to ask in here. The train ride to airport and flight here were smooth and that's a first as we previously managed to either get lost, go wrong direction or do anything else that we should have not. Singapore can be complicated. We were staying in a borough called Woodlands and for some reason they named all the streets in this borough Woodlands as well. Just with different numbers, but opposite to a Woodlands street nr 31 is street number 41, where is the logic? Also, they have designed a lot of halls as labyrinths. There truly were times we were laughing in tears and earned several “if looks could kill” stares.

Last tuesday evening me and Keiu started our journey. The 11 hour flight was less painful than I thought. When landed we found the local bus from the airports basement as it was the cheap option (any other tourist apparently didn't go for that option as we were the only ones on that). Got off on a street corner that looked like it could be in the city centre and searched for the subway and discovered the line we have to take is the slowest train I've ever seen, snail train we called it.

We were couchsurfing and our host was probably the sweetest, kindest and modest person ever. Had some nice indian food at a muslim place downstairs and after some more chattting at home, soon headed to sleep. Were bragging about never being jet lagged before and well oh well, woke up 2 am, after less than 2 hours of sleep and the sleep was gone, thinking back to estonian time, it was 9 pm then, so yep, power-nap was done.

For me, Singapore is such a pretty-looking city. Great arcitecture, awesomely-designed buildings, parks, streets even. And everything is clean. The cleanlyness comes with a price – pretty much everything is forbidden. Littering, spitting, smoking, chewing gum, eating or drinking anything in public transport or in any kind of stations. Using an unsecured wifi spots, hugging somebody (affectionately) in a public place (as it could mean outraging modesty) And the fines are from 500 to 1000 dollars OR you could as well go to jail. 

We started our second day early, chinese breakfast (I can't even cound how much we have eaten during these few days here, but how can you resist if all the food is so tasty, plus we are not privileged to find a lot of asian food in Estonia) and headed to Sentosa island, looking for thrills. Found them! Went to Universal Studios. Hollywood movie-ish theme park with asian twists and quirks. Had fun, couple of the rides were amazingly good. One of them broke down at some point, everybody left the line, we were of course some of the few stubborn ones who stayed. Soon got to test out the freshly-repaired ride and until people noticed it's working again we had already riden it four times, without any waiting in between.

Ended the night on a high note. A dream come true for both of us. The largest and highest infinity pool in the world. On top of Marina Bay Sands hotel, in a beautiful park built on the 57^th floor. Swimming in the pool, enjoying the amazing view, chilling in the jacuzzi, life just seemed a breeze at that moment. The pool is actually just for the guests of the hotel and well it is not something our wallets would allow by any means. The cheapest rooms start from 400 dollars per person per night. Luckily our host had his ways, so up there we were.

Yesterday visited Chinatown, did some cultural sight-seeing and got carried away in the lovely little market. Wanted to walk to Little India, surprise surprise walked the wrong direction, but ended up on a pretty broadwalk, saw the houses of parliament and other monuments. Still headed to Indiatown later, loved the colourfulness and celebrative atmosphere there, the looks and stares were a bit too much tho. Decided to go to th Gardens by the Bay. The station we got off the train seemd a bit far away from the park, so it looked like a good idea to take a shortcut. Ended up on a field, highway to our left and a “caution- dangerous area” construction site to our right. Some battle wounds and walking in the runnel later, to sit down on the ground and put our feet into the pond (which I'm not sure was forbidden or not) felt heavenly. The park itself was beautiful.

Visiting the most famous club of the city at night with our host and a fellow Taiwanese couchsurfer and we can consider our trip complete.