Thursday, June 28, 2012

Asia day 14--singapore/transit to Manila

Woke up by 8am. Showered-- oh, I didn't mention, we don't have a shower in the bathroom. There's just a shower head and the hole bathroom is the shower. I also didn't mention, our hotel is in the redlight district of singapore, atleast there were a ton of short skirts and tons of makeup standing guard along our street the night before.

Packed and checked our bags by 930. We are headed to sentosa. An island south of singapore. we stopped at a little cafe and had deep fried eggs over white rice. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes. And Guava juice (just about as good as in Brazil Rachel!!). Then we hopped the train to harbor front where we spotted the cablecars to the island. 29S$ each (about 20$) we went up the mountain got our free juice drink. Then went onto Sentosa. Oh, did I mention the cable car is a giant sauna flying through the air. Ugh. Sweaty. Deboarded on sentosa, an island with amusement park like attractions, an universal studios and beaches. Walked past the merlion and to the beaches. It was like 100 and humid. Hot hot hot. Then made our way back to the cable car. Bought watches in the mall and made it back to our hotel by 230 to get our bags, and make it to the airport by 345 for our 550 flight to manila. Had to hop a bus to the budget terminal. Checked our bags. Made it through customs okay and got first row seats. Lots of legroom. Slept the entire way.

Landed 10 minutes late in manila where our couchsurfer dave was going to pick us up. Got through customs no problem. Had to wait for our bags as we were the first ones off the plane. After waiting a little bit we found our way to passenger pickup and found dave. He drove us out to dinner. Had some pork chunks, tuna, shrimp white rice, and san miquel. Then we drove around a little bit before he dropped us off at our hotel. He was picking us up in the am for some more driving around manila before we depart. We actually scored at this hotel. Nice rooms. Free wifi. 46$.

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