let's find some place beautiful to get lost: June 2012

I am sorry I know I have been slacking, but I do not have my computer with me, and I have been traveling since the start of the month. And with few days in each place, taking time to write a post about each place has been difficult. But now that we are in Brunei and there is not much to do here (I will explain in a later post), I figured I should try to play catch up and write about our time in Singapore this morning.

We arrived in Singapore on July 2, after taking one flight from Chiang Mai to Kuala Lumpur, and then flying from there to Singapore. The flights were not too bad but it was a long day. First I am going to tell you about our awesome hotel we stayed in. When looking up hotels, we were slacking, and a lot of the cheap but clean places were booked. We decided to stay at a place a little more expensive than we had planned, called the Wanderlust. It was worth it. It was situated in Little India, and every room was different. The 2nd floor were the Pantone rooms, each done in a different colour. Ours was the Purple Haze room. It was pretty cool. The complimentary breakfast at this place was unreal. The first morning I went by myself, as Ryan was too tired to get out of bed, and had cinnamon, banana pancakes. They had a menu to choose from and I am glad I chose those. Delicious. The hotel was decorated pretty cool and we loved it.

Ryan playing ukulele in Chiang Mai airport

Purple Haze room

Purple Haze room from the door

Over top the bed

Our hotel from the outside

Oh Little India, what can I say? It was the perfect location to stay in to get around. We were central to everything, close to a MRT station and it was always buzzing around our hotel. The downside, I have never been stared at so much in my life, which I would soon come to realize that would be a theme on this trip. The men in Little India were not subtle about it either. As Ryan would say they would look at my face, then their wife, then my tits, then their wife, then eventually just stare at me. Or my ass as I walked by as well. It was rather annoying after awhile. But other than that, we had some food at a restaurant there called Lagnaa. The food was delicious. The service was excellent (which is hard to find in South East Asia).

Our first night was great cause we had a quick rest, and got ready, and took the MRT to Clarke Quay. We grabbed some food and wandered around. It was quite a lovely area. We met up with a friend of mine whom I had met in Australia, who was now teaching in Singapore. We grabbed drinks at a really interesting bar called The Beer Market, where the beer prices changed every 30 minutes according to how many beers were bought in the last 30 minutes. It was there we started to realize Singapore was a lot more expensive than Thailand. We had a great night out, and I enjoyed catching up with Megan.

Clarke Quay

One thing Ryan really wanted to try was the Flowrider at Sentosa Beach. So we hopped in a cab and went over to Sentosa Beach and Ryan got to surf on the Flowrider for an hour, while I snapped pictures. I now wish that I had tried it too. But I was wearing a bikini that would have easily come off doing that. Another thing we had wanted to do, since Ryan is all about photography, was check out the Marina Bay Sands. One night was spent in front of the buildings taking pictures, the next we went up to the observation deck for some sunset pictures. It was an amazing view. We both got some great shots.

Sentosa Beach

Sentosa

Ryan on Flowrider at Wavehouse in Sentosa, Singapore

This guy wanted a picture with Ryan, cause of his tattoos

All in all, Singapore was an amazing city. We loved the sights, the skyline, the beach, but there were also a lot of weird rules like no chewing gum/spitting on sidewalk. And we felt the people weren't as friendly as we were used to. Though Ryan could have taken pictures for weeks, we were ready to move on to Malaysia...