Singapore

9:30 a.m. - I took the MRT in the morning to chinatown where I meet up with Eli. Most of Chinatown was still closed but we found ourselves some breakfast in a cute café where we had a tasty corn soup. Afterwards we checked out the Hindu temple there and suddenly we were part of a ceremony. We asked someone and figured out that the celebrated the 12 year old band of a married couple. It was amazing to see this all but also very funny that it is public and everyone can just walk in. Afterwards we went to a Chinese temple nearby. The loved the architecture it reminded me of a location in a film or a game. Later we went to the City Gallery which was also nearby. It was kind of a museum where you can learn a lot about the history of Singapore. How they build the city and especially their vision of the city with all the urbanization, going green, saving water/energy, technologies etc. I can highly recommend to visit it, very interesting, european countries can learn a lot and it is free.

1 p.m. - Later we went back to chinatown for food. Crazy how many people where there for food and how many options you got. There you get everything from a noodle soup with pork heart, zunge, stomach, skin etc, till dumplings and more normal food but not a lot of vegetarian options. Unfortunately all the places just accepted cash and I had to use my last cash because I had to pay the satay from yesterday also in cash. However we chose a food stall with a long queue in the hope they have good food. We had to wait quite long but it was worth it. We didn’t got disappointed the food was amazing. I found myself another Chinese speciality on our further way. I tried some dry and smoked meat. I have no idea if they eat it as a snack or whatever but it was very nice.

3 p.m. - We walked to the Sky Garden. It’s a huge skyscraper with a park on the levels 17-20 and on the 51 floor, the highest, the have a huge garden with different herbs. They even got thyme, mint and lemon balm which reminded me of home. Furthermore you have an amazing view over the hole center including the bay and it’s for free. Bevor travel I just drunk americano but while traveling I discovered cappuccino and the flat white for me.

5 p.m. - Our exploring got interrupted by a proper thunderstorm about 1h long with heavy rain, lightning and thunder. We had a nice place where we stayed dry with a good view on the bay and skyline which wasn’t visible because of the fog. However we waited a bit longer until the rain got less.

7 p.m. - We continued walking again. The next destination was the F1 pit building but unfortunately it was closed because of a festival or something. I was disappointed I mean there isn’t a lot to see except of the building but thats cool. At least I stand on the race circuit. Afterwards we walked over the helix bridge to the gardens by the bay where we watched the supertree light show. Then we walked through the Marina Bay Sands hotel and ended up on the roof of the shopping mall in front where we saw the rain oculus. The funny thing is that you can hear the voices from the opposite when you stand in front of it. Physics is impressive. Afterwards we went into the appel store from where we watched the Spectra light and water show but we didn’t heard the music and our angel to the show was great either so we decided to go again.

10 p.m. - We went again to Lau Pa Sat for dinner because its near by, cheap and they have delicious food.

P.S.: We walked 25 000 steps today.Read more