Our wake up call came 15 minutes early. 315 am instead of 330am. Showered with a gecko. Got downstairs by 4am. Got our breakfast but our driver was 10 minutes late. Got to the airport by 420 to find out we need to pay an additional 150,000 rupiah a piece to get through customs. Had to go to the atm again and get $$. Boarded our plane, and passed out.
Arrived in singapore about 1130 am. Got through customs and headed to our hotel. It was right off the train station about 6 blks. In the ghetto yet again. Was unsure if we would have a host so we booked our hotel room last minute for 40$. This came with free wifi. Sat in the room trying to figure out what to do about our night in manila and our night in tokyo. Booked a night in manila at a 3star manila grand opera hotel for 45$ and decided we are just going to sleep in the haneda airport as the public transport doesn't operate in tokyo early enough in the am for us and the hotels around the airport are like 200$ a night.
I also looked up things to do in singapore. China town little india, orchard st, and clarke area. So with our daypacks, mom and I set out in the 100 degree weather and walked the entire singapore island. First stop was ensalade area, walked along the river. Quite pretty. Got our bearings (or I got my bearings and mom follows) and headed to chinatown. Got some really cheap silk stuff. Then we headed to orchard street. The shopping district of singapore. Loads of shops. Not impressed with the prices. Next we went to little india. Lots of yellow gold jewelry shops. Didn't buy anything. By now it was 7pm and mom was hot, sweaty, tired and not feeling well. So we headed to clarke area along the river. Found a pub had some nachos and watched the river boats pass. Then head home. We repacked all of our bags to assure we can still carry on transpacifico. I have 80% of clothes in my bag. And a new bag with all the crap we bought. Then went to bed.
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