Today we were picked up by a mini bus and taken on a lovely tour of Si.gapore. Bei g the Chinese New Year of the rabbit everywhere was decorated accordiingly, lots of local people were dressed for the occassion.
Our first stop was the Singapore Flyer where the tallest "big wheel" in the world is found, 30 metres higher than the London Eye. From there we went to Merlion Park where there is a statue with a beautiful water fountain. Then on to the Financial district and to China town where we went in a very old Temple with lots of gold plate and beautiful carvings of dragons. Our next stop was the Botanical Gardens, we've never seen so many different coloured orchids or such big ones. The whole garden was a blaze with colour and amazing palms. The last stop to walk around was Little India, this was a small street full of open air markets, mostly fruit, veg and clothes, everything here cheaper than Oz, where it was very expensive!
As our hotel is situated on the waterfront we walked for quite a few miles in the afternoon crossing lots of bridges and enjoying the lovely scenery and of course the beautiful weather, another day in the 30s! WE Should be getting used to it by now, we won't like the cold and wet when we get home!
After our evening meal we went on a Night Safari, where we took a tram ride through 99 a res of dense tropical forest. The safari is lit tto resemble the moonlight and is inhabited by more than 900 animals.
We also did some walks, the first being the fishing cat trail, that led on to the leopards trail and then they had a part to walk through to have bats flying around you (flying foxes), we didn't go in there as we didn't fancy an encounter with lots of BATS!!!
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