Singapore 11.10.2012 - 16.10.2012

After my arrival in singapore on the 11th of october, i took the train to the city hall.The train in singapore is pretty nice and i think the fastest way to travel through the city.. For only 1-2 singapore dollars you can get nearly everywhere , even to the airport.

the train of singapore from inside

From the city hall i tried to find an internet cafe. With the help of the internet i was able to find a good hostel called the "wow hostel". They wanted 18 Singapore Dollars per night.
To get there i again had to take the train to the "aljunied" train station. The hostel was only about 200 meters away from the station, which is great.


After checking into the hostel i decided to go to the city, where i wanted to see for example the marina hotel.On my way to the hotel i took these pictures:

Singapore

the marina hotel 1

the marina hotel 2

inside the marina hotel

marina shopping centre

Unfortunately to get to the top of the building costs 20 Singapore Dollars, so i was not sure whether it was worth to spend the money. On top of that perhaps it would have boring to go up there alone. Because i would stay 3 more days in Singapore i decided to wait, maybe i would find some other people the next days who wanted to go to the top as well.
After that i decided to walk streight into these towers, because i wanted to see what is inside the towers:

The towers mainly consist of hotels and i think offices of big companies. Some shops can also be found there. Somehow by walking into the towers i got lost and ended up in china town. Here are some pictures of China town:

china town 1

china town 2

After walking through china town and through half of the city, i finally found back to the promenade, were there was some nice life music. I listened to the music, took some more pictures and then went back to my hostel.

the marina hotel at night

Singapore at night 1

Singapore at night 2

Singapore at night 3

mac ritchie park - 12.10.2012

On October 12th i went to the Mac Ritchie Park in Singapore with someone i met in the hostel. The Park has a pretty lake where you can go kayaking on or you can go for a walk around the lake.  At some places signs can be found which tell you something about certain animals (like the picture below) or the nature in the park .

sign in mac ritchie park

boardwalk a long the lake in mac ritchie park 

a tree crossing the way 

boardwalk a long the lake in mac ritchie park 2

In this park i walked a bit around the lake on this boardwalk, which was really nice. On my way back, little monkeys crossed my way :) . Unfortunately again i had no bananas, although on the other hand it is forbidden in this park to feed the monkeys.

monkeys crossing my way 

monkey crossing my way

baby monky hiding the in the leaves of the tree

Singapore Zoo - 13.10.2012

On the 13th of september me and two people from my hostel went to the Zoo of Singapore. It*s a really nice Zoo, because most of the animals seem to have big compounds. I especially liked all the different monkeys, and especially the ones with the awesome noses. When we came to these moneys compound,
two of them were fighting... which looked really funny :) .
I recorded a small video of this : ( which i will upload later)

monkey with awesome nose

monkeys waiting for the bananas

white tiger

white tiger in the water

14.10.2012 - Botanic Garden

On October the 14th i went to the Botanic garden in Singapore which was really nice, and the best thing is : it was for free!
At the beginning i could choose between all the different kinds of gardens one which would interest me the most. As shown in the picture down below.

pick the garden of my choice

I was most interested in the evolution garden so i started with this garden. The evolution garden, is a garden
which tells the story of how the plants developed on our earth since the beginning of time.

The second garden i cose was the health garden, which shows different kinds of plants which are used for medications. As expected they didn*t show any weed plants, because probably people would steal them, if they were growing there ;) .

The next garden i visited was the ginger garden. What i learned from this garden is that banana plant for example belongs to the family of ginger plants.

The last garden which i visited was the orchids garden, which costs only 1$ for students and 5$ for adults. I was lucky that i had a student passport.

Botanic Garden - Singapore

Palm Valley

After visiting the Botanic garden i went to a barber at the Shopping Centre at Clarks Quay. I think it is funny that all the shops in Singapore seem to be opened 24/7. You can go shopping when ever you want. I think it was about 8 pm on a Sunday night, when i got my hair cut at this barber. Being happy that i finally had shorter hair again i went to the Marina Bay Shopping Centre, because i was hoping that i could perhaps play a bit on the grand piano in this shopping centre. When i arrived at the grand piano, these guys here were already jaming it out for me, so i didn*t have to play on it. They said they play there every weekend.  I listened to their music a bit and then went back to the hostel.

jazzband at the marina shopping centre

15.10.2012 - Suntec City Centre && little India

On October 15th i went to the Suntec City Centre in Singapore. There i watched the Fountain of Wealth,
which is the worlds largest and worlds ugliest fountain -  as natalie tran would say.

Fountain of Wealth

Having found this fountain i went to a piano shop in a nearby shopping centre which sold pretty grand pianos. I was alowed to play on the big white and brand new grand piano :) . After playing some songs, i decided to walk from the shopping centre in north-west direction to little india. I should have better taken the train, that was really a long walk. 

little india

In little India i went to a restaurant for lunch. I found a nice vegetarian meal for 6.5 Singapore Dollars. The people in the restaurant were very friendly, and they even refilled my rice for free :) .

the restaurant i ate in at little india

my lunch in little india

After having a meal in this indian restaurant, i walked trough a small market as shown in the picture down below. I bet you can find tons of these markets if you just walk into some of the smaller streets on the side. On one of the markets i bought a small pinapple for 2 Singapore Dollars which i would have for breakfast on the next day.

small market in little india

In one of the side-streets i found a "little" food court. Asians here in Singapore and also in malaysia seem to love theses Food courts - even the indish people, while i m not a great fan of them, because the food in these courts often suffers in quality i think.

food court in little india