Day 329: Singapore Layover

Before leaving Asia and heading to Australia, we scheduled a two day layover in Singapore. Building architecture incoming!!

Back into super efficient mass transit, we jumped on a train from the airport and marveled at the modern city. Checked into our hostel and ate classic dish Bak Kut Teh to prepare the body for 48 hours of walking!

Started at the Gardens by the Bay Cloud Dome and Flower Dome where the architects developed a biome for cloud rain forests and aired deserts. This is all designed to be renewable energy where funnels in the Super Grove Forest intake rain water, generate electricity, and supply water to the botanical gardens. They also had a special digital experience on Monet with live dried flowers and a digital art shows. We continued to walk around the gardens, venturing to Westworld Season 3 filming locations like the double helix bridge and art science museum.

We stayed late enough to watch the sunset and a Christmas light show at the Super Grove Forest. Got to see the Marina Bay Sands hotel lit up as well!

Before dinner, we walked around the water front to take in the city. Singapore is extremely expensive so we returned to our little hostel and got local food, where we snuck in 7/11 beers and Kieran accidentally ordered grilled intestines.

Hostel: Wanderlust Capsule Hostel

Food:
Bak Kut Teh
Herbal Chicken
Teow Chew

Spots:
Gardens by the Bay
Cloud Dome
Flower Dome
Art Science Museum
Double Helix Bridge
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