Singapore

Early morning flight got us to Singapore at 11am - used the amazing a metro to get to the Rest Bugis Hotel. After early check in, we headed to the botanical gardens but got absolutely destroyed by a monsoon, easily the most drenched I’ve been this trip. We abandoned that after 2 hours or so and headed to the mall to get my trekking gear from Decathlon and also got some wanton soup. All my kit cost under 18 pounds which was incredible. In the evening, we were so lucky to meet up with Leena and Akhil up the Marina Bay Sands at Spago for some drinks. Despite the rain the view was still insane, and the drinks were top tier. Mine was called kissy lips (sloppy kisses) and had absinthe and don julio tequila in. After leaving them, we hit up the Lau Pa hawker market commonly known as satay street for dinner and had our first experience of amazing Singapore street food. We had been up since 4am so it was time for bed!

Next day we went to fun toast for breakfast in the metro station because they are so kitted out and clean and after that made our way to River Wonders. This place had giant pandas and manatees which was just unreal. They also had an Amazon river quest ride which you could see ant eaters and capybaras and more on which Amy bought for me. After that, you know we had to get a McDonalds again lol. From River Wonders we hit up the Merlion Statue before going to China town to get look at all the stores ( we got some year of the rabbit matching chopsticks, and I had to get my key ring of course, Amy got a dish) and then went to the China Town Hawker to get some amazing food. I got a guava juice and hainan chicken rice which I have been hunting for. We finished up the evening at the super tree grove in the gardens by the bay and watched the light show which was such a nice way to end our month together.

Next day we spent the day at the airport. Sounds weird but this airport is amazing with basically a full jungle In the middle of it with the water vortex. We got, I think, one of the best meals ever at this Chinese place which had amazing pork noodle soup and the best pork dumplings I’ve ever had. We tried to go visit all the other fun things the airport had but that meant leaving eachother sooner which we didn’t want to do so we got a McFlurry and played monopoly deal. Eventually we had to part ways which was very painful but we had such an amazing month together. She flew home and I fly to Surabaya for some volcano trekkingRead more