And here goes the story for our second day trip...
Today we are planning to go to Marina Bay area, there are some place you can go there, Marina Bay Sands (malls, hotels and Sky Park), Garden by The Bay (when we are there, there is a Tulip Exhibition, it's very beautiful), Merlion Park ( I used to joke around and call it patung singa muntah), and Changi City Link (if I am not mistaken, it is an underground mall).
First, we have breakfast, it is free at the hostel. There are corn flakes, bread (plus a toaster and jam), coffee dispenser ( it has Milo, Caffee Latte, Black Coffee and Tarik Tea) and water dispenser. Apparently there are many Indonesian who stayed at the hostel, so we can easily chat with other hostel guests. After breakfast its city time. But first, in order not to get "lost" again we decided to buy a local sim card for our phones. We went to Budha Relic Tooth temple first, its nearby only about 5 minutes walk. After taking a few photos, we buy sim card at the nearest 7-11 store. In my opinion it is the cheapest one, we buy the Singtel HiCard, it is 15 SGD, you get 18 SGD inside, Naomi chooses the Blackberry package (its 5 days package) and i chooses the data package (you get 1 GB internet quota for only 7 SGD, valid for 7 days). And there is a bonus, a big black umbrella that comes free with the card, its very useful, Singapore is hot when its not raining. And its also proven to be of use later time.
We then go to Marina Bay station, to get there, from Chinatown, change trains at Dhoby Ghaut interchange, take the train headed to Marina Bay, take exit B and cross the Dragonfly bridge. When we are outside the station, the sun is apparently shining at its brightest, its very hot. And we have to walk about 15 minutes to reach Garden by The Bay, so if you dont have an umbrella, dont forget to carry and use your best sunscreen. We walk around at the Garden by The Bay first before entering the conservatory where the Tulip Exhibition are. Garden By The Bay actually is a huge park, there are many plants there, even outside the conservatory. The place is even more beautiful at night, with lights and such. After we are tired walking around under the hot sun, we decided to chill inside the conservatory. To enter the conservatory, you must pay about 16 SGD per person. Actually there are two conservatory, but we only go to one conservatory. Inside is very beautiful, and very...cold (there are some Japanese tourist that are saying, samuii - samuii). There are many plants and flowers inside, and of course the Tulip Exhibition, including a fake windmill inside it. Time flies inside the chill conservatory, tummy are crumbling so we decided to go for a lunch. Near the conservatory exit, there are three huge interactive screen (much taller then an adult), you can use it to see what will happen if cut down trees, change forest to housing lands or plantation.
We walk to Marina Bay Sands, its across the Garden by The Bay. Basicly its a huge mall and hotel, with a Skypark on its top floor. We have lunch at the foodhall, no junkfood this time. Here you can find Indonesian food too, such as Nasi Padang and Ayam Penyet. After tummy are full, we go out and walk to the Merlion Park. It is just across the Sands, about 10-15 minutes walking. But when we reached the mall exit door, rain come pouring down, thankfully we already have our defense against it, the free umbrella, but we can not go to the Merlion Park because its raining hard, so we pull back inside to a mall near Raffles Place station. There we walk around and decided to search for Takashimaya and AKB48 cafe, by using the google map. And this time we got it correctly. From Raffles Place station, alight at Sommerset station. From there we go to HMV store in Sommerset 313, and walk to *Scape mall (about 5 minutes walking) where the AKB48 cafe was supposed to be, and you know what, it is no longer there. So we went to Takashimaya buliding across it and walk around it. There we buy instant noodle, the big sized cup, we are planning to eat it for dinner, and went back to the hostel.
On our walk way back from the station, we decided to eat the local food instead. So i ate the real Chinatown beef noodle instead the instant one. On the menu it said beef ramen, but when i ordered it, the waitress (in my opinion she looks like Anne Suzuki) said, noodle not ramen, i guessed thats what they called it there. And Naomi, uses her many coins to pay for the dinner...and the waitress happily helped us count it. After that is straight back to the hostel and sleep time.
Next is Day 3 trip, Bangkok day 1 trip.
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