The Adventures of Julie

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

24 Hours to Singapore

Our trip to Singapore was quite the adventure. We decided to take a night train (see me in my cozy sleeper bunk) that would leave at 8pm, and arrive at 11am, giving us time to have a good nights sleep and see some of the scenery as well. Around 3am we noticed that the train had stopped moving. It did not start again until 10:30am and then only to go a few feet into another town. Everyone else on the train seemed to take it in stride. We later learned a train had de-railed in front of us. So, we finally started moving again around 12pm and arrived in Singapore around 10pm. About 12 hours behind. Fortunately, I had e-mailed our hostel from the town we were stopped in and we arrived at the Inn Crowd, late, but with beds. Yeah!

Singapore is very modern. It was like being back in the states. Shopping malls everywhere, and every fast food chain that you could imagine. We walked around our first day, checked out the river front and shopping. We did the Night Safari, which was awesome (you can see a picture of the fire show), there were tons of animals out, we saw a whole pack of wolves running around, as well as, tigers, giraffe, and other assorted creatures. The areas were barely lit, with a safari feel, lots of greenery, but you could see the animals, it was very cool. We also enjoyed the botanical gardens, the amazing food in little India, and a dim sum feast in Chinatown. Robin and I were also able to meet up with our Pastor and his wife Gayle who were
visiting Singapore, which was really nice.

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