{"id":1175,"date":"2023-10-25T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2023-10-28T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T09:19:58","slug":"singapore-25-28-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: 25-28 October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very comfortable and relaxed Singapore Airlines flight from Bangkok to Singapore. We are staying at the Holiday Inn just north of Little India so ok for curries!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From our hotel – A historic site amongst the concrete jungle – this is the old infectious disease hospital. It is no longer used. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

28 October: flight from Singapore to Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few of the butterflies in the butterfly garden in terminal 3, Changi airport, Singapore. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

27 October: visited the Tangs department store, Bum Boat trip on the River, visited the Asian Civilisations Museum and scaled the Marina Bay Sands building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Night time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tangs department store. Expensive but nice coffee. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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History of Tangs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A loiterer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cBum boat\u201d trip on the Singapore River. The name comes from the combination of the Dutch word for a canoe\u2014”boomschuit” (“boom” meaning “tree”), and “boat”<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A bum boat – all electric these days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An interesting item in the Asian Civilisations Museum – Chinese boat paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the boat paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old and new – Chinese shophouses surrounded by skyscrapers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A building resembling the much-maligned and persecuted Durian fruit. (One for Vicky C-J)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the hotel – another example of the way Durians are discriminated against.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The incredible Marina Bay Sands building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From the top of the Marina Bay Sands building. 55 storeys up. The express lift from the ground to the top takes 40 seconds!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another shot from the viewing platform atop the Marina Bay Sands building. Note the large number of ships anchored in the bay. The foreground is the Gardens by the Bay complex. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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26 October: used the buses, monorail and MRT (tube) to reach various sights: Sentosa Island, Clarke Quay and Gardens by the Bay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sentosa Island on the southern edge of Singapore. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many, many ships moored off the south coast. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lovely beaches on Sentosa Island <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Super Tree Grove in the Gardens by the Bay. These are vertical forests.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside the amazing Cloud Forest dome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the many orchids in the Cloud Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The highest indoor waterfall in the world – inside the Cloud Forest dome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of the Marina Bay Sands hotel in the distance. In the foreground are some of the \u201clove the last March\u201c animals (endangered species).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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25 October:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some classic Singapore architecture with the more modern in the background. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another \u201cshophouse\u201d but the shop has been converted to a house!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were looking for coffee and found this magnificent coffee bean shop. We bought Bali coffee beans. It makes delicious coffee!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very comfortable and relaxed Singapore Airlines flight from Bangkok to Singapore. We are staying at the Holiday Inn just north of Little India so ok for curries! 28 October: flight from Singapore to Auckland, New Zealand. 27 October: visited the Tangs department store, Bum Boat trip on the River, visited the Asian Civilisations Museum andContinue reading “Singapore: 25-28 October 2023”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apethtravels.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}