Singapore Day 3

So, I finally caught up on my sleep!! I slept so long, Frank was afraid I'd died. But I feel great!

Started off the day with a trip in to Chinatown, via the 191 bus. I did a little bit of shopping and may go back there again...depends on what I find in Bangkok. As it's a Monday, it wasn't horribly crowded, so I was able to look around. Then we went over to a hawker hall to eat....again, not lunchtime so not too insane. See the picture to the right. I had chicken and rice, which was very good. I tried a sip of coconut juice, which was very good and I am going to have some next opportunity.

Frank was hoping that this building nearby still had an exhibit, which it did! It's the Master Plan for Singapore and shows every single building in the city/country. Simply an amazing work of artistry to create and really gives one a good sense of the city and what is planned for the future. There were displays of information as well, including one that mentioned the recently completed Henderson Wave and Tree Top Walk. We questioned a guide and she found out for us that we just needed to go to the Harbourfront stop and the start of the trail was near there. Most of today's pictures are form this walk and links can be found at the end.

So we exit the station and find signs to Henderson Wave, which brings us up up up Mt. Faber, across the top to the other side. Where we found a car park and also saw several buses that go up the mountain...... Finally found proper signage to Henderson Wave, which is a bridge over Henderson Road, shaped like a wave. On the other side of the bridge started the Tree Top Trail. Literally this high aluminum walkway through the tree tops.

Next stop, the Alexandra Arch.....again, a bridge over Alexandra Road and shaped like an arch. The views from the path were unbelievable and it was so peaceful, despite the amount of people also walking along.

Along the trail, everything was so so green around us, but very few flowers. Then, we found the Hort Garden. All of the pictures can be found in my Singapore Day 3 photo album. It was garden after garden after garden, all with beautiful flowers artfully arranged, including a "Wizard of Oz" garden. If you are a flower lover, this is definitely a place to visit.

We decided to continue along to Kent Ridge Park and on our way up the path, numerous runners passed by. This is the best time of day to exercise, as the sun has gone down and it is at least relatively cooler and the humidity not as bad. Again, so much greenery every where and beautiful views. And there were fitness centers - rings, bars for chin ups, logs to jump over, etc - here and there. Obviously a place people come to a lot. We finally found a path downward, into some random housing section, where we caught a taxi back to Frank's.

We've been watching the movie "Rendition" while I was uploading pictures, etc. Very powerful movie....don't watch it if you have a weak stomach, as it deals with terrorism. The documentary after the movie is even better!

I uploaded two albums of pictures to Facebook, which has a public link to view:

Singapore Day 3 (orchids & greenery) and Singapore Day 3a (everything else from today)

So ends day 3....tomorrow morning I am going back to the Singapore Botanic Gardens to see the Orchid Garden and then off to Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon.