Singapore so far

I arrived safe and sound in Singapore a few days ago, and have been busily sight seeing since then.

 

My first morning in Singapore I went for a walk around the MacRitchie reservoir, it's a working reservoir (hello Sydney Water people!) in Singapore's water supply and yet you can walk right around the waters edge and you can even kayak on the water. The walk I went on was 11 km and took about 4 hours to do, the reservoir is basically surrounded by the sort of rain forest/jungles that used to cover the entire Island of Singapore and as such there is a lot of wildlife in the area. The best part of the walk was the monkeys which lived in the forest. You could walk right up to within a metre or two from them and just look at what they are doing. Some of the baby ones were so cute, I took plenty of photos of them so when I have a chance I will put some on the web.

 

I've spent today wondering around the city area of Singapore looking at some of the normal tourist attractions. Most of them just want you to buy crappy souvenirs which sucks cause a) I'm trying to not spend too much money and b) there are weight limits on the planes so I couldn't really buy anything even if I wanted to.

 

One interesting place I went to today was the Chinese Heritage Museum in the Chinatown area of Singapore. It was about the experiences the Chinese immigrants faced when they left China for Singapore. The museum was in an old house/shop in Chinatown and half of it had been restored to its original condition, as the immigrants would have had to live in. It was very very dirty and very very cramped, with whole families living in rooms smaller than your typical bedroom - it made me appreciate my room at this hostel a bit more (not that it's anything luxurious!)

 

I'm pretty ready to leave Singapore now, I've seen all I really want to, but I've still got one more day here so I'm going to try and go out tonight, sleep in tomorrow and do some washing in the afternoon to kill the day.

 

Haven't been homesick or missed anyone yet (but it's only been a few days), can't wait to get over to Europe and start exploring over there soon.

 

Talk to you later,

 

Pete

Farewell Drinks

I'm having some farewell drinks before I leave

@ the paddington inn
from 6:30 on saturday the 8th april, i've booked the 'red room' at the back of the pub

come and help me celebrate the start of my overseas travels or come and celebrate seeing the back of me for a while (whatever floats your boat)

a big thank you to elissa and kirsten who can't make the drinks next week but took me out to dinner last night!

p.s. 18 sleeps til i leave