Last lunch in Singapore

'Checked out from Mandarin Marina Hotel after a nice stay and had a nice Dim Sum lunch at Din Tai Fung. Now at the airport, waiting for my flight to Bali. Exciting.

Day three in Singapore - and the sky fell down

Rainy view from my room at Mandarin Marina Hotel

A lady in Little India

Shop-keepers lunch

Beautiful aubergines

My lunch

Ladies having a chat & chay

Mother and child

If faces could tell their stories

Temple acrobatics

Chinatown

Prawns & noodles for dinner

Singha girl

Still life

Luckily only as a tropical rain, but then again, lots of it. I took a bus to Little India for lunch and a walk about. Smells, sounds, sights – it did feel as India.

A short metro ride later I was in Chinatown and sat down on a corner to watch people. Soon discovered that the guys next to me were Swedish, from Gothenburg no less. Before we knew it, it was time to go home to bed. That's how it goes when you are having interesting discussions.

Day two in Singapore in pictures

Sunny view from the room today (but later it rained).

Cityscape

Chinatown

 

My chili crab at Long Beach@Dempsley Hill

Robertson Quay

Bring your own-party on a bridge

The Pump Room at Clarke's Quay

Landed in the extraterrestial city

The view from my hotel room

Inside the hotel

Lovely steamed prawn dumplings

Raffles Hotel

Singapore Gin Sling

View from my hotel room just after sunset

Bay Sands with Sky Park (and Ku De Ta) on the top

Having a drink 200 meter up

At six this morning (local time, 23 CET) I landed in Singapore. I tried to do the best out of the day, considering I missed two nights of sleep in a row. The jet lag does help to create that other-wordly feeling, but so does Singapore itself. The architecture is breath-taking, sometimes unbelievable.

But I started with food, some great steamed prawn dumplings at the Lau Pat Sa food court. Topped with the obligatory Singapore Gin Sling Cocktail at Raffles Hotel and life felt somewhat brighter.
But come night time and the real science fiction show begins. Just outside my hotel balcony. It's hard to describe so you just have to trust the photos.

In the evening I ended up partying at Ku De Ta, the club, bar and restaurant at Sky Park. The latter feels like something directly copied from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - an utterly insane, and enormous, outdoor platform 200 meter over the sea, on the 57th floor, stretching 340 meters in length over three sky scrapers. It is almost beyond comprehension, even when you are there.