Singapore

Singapore is like a maze...we just got dropped off on a random street by the bus not the bus terminal like we thought! It took us ages to find out where we was. Took us ages to find the MRT (no signs to be seen) eventually after walking around for ages came to the hostel we had pre-booked, or should i say thought we had! It was full! The guy sent us in the direction of a hotel that was close by, so off we went and checked in there! My shoulder and back was killing from carrying my bag, its just so heavy didnt ralise id picked that much stuff up along the way, its only been just over 2months!
We are staying just outside the city center in a place called Little India. It seems a lot cleaner than any of the other citys we have visited and a lot more spaced out, not as crammed together, its more like Hong Kong island! Now we know where the MRT is we are failry close to that so can get around the city no problem. Last night we went to Orchard Rd, which is shopping heaven, we didnt buy anything just ate there and looked around. There is so many shopping centers its unreal and music just booming out onto the st!
We have been to the Zoo, which was great. The zoo its self lets most of the animals run wild, we were walking along and Monkeys were swinging through the trees. We could get really close to them and you could stroke them in some areas. We were sat on a bench at one point and a cheeky little monkey came and joined us... We saw polar bears, white tigers, white rhinos and loads of other weird looking animals!
We spent the whole day at the Zoo then at night the night safari opened and we went there. The night safari was a bit dissappointing compared with the zoo, don't know what we expected but it was like going to the Zoo at night. We wne to a creature at night show, this was different types of nocturnal animals doing alsorts of tricks.. they had a huge snake hidden under one of the benches and brought it out which scared a few people fortunately it was not anywhere near us! There was sloths crawling down a rope which was above our heads!
The next day we went into the City Centre, it was Singapore's National Day, the main business district was empty as every one was near the stadium, where the national day parade was taking place, unfortunately you needed tickets for this, we went to Marina Bay and there were a few bands on, and face painting etc. The city itself was nice there is a river running through it with some nice restaurants and bars along the side. As every other City it's full of shopping centre's and expensive clothes!
We had a walk through Fort Canning park where the old british barracks were. Off to Perth tomorrow, early start again (5am) at least we have a flight this time instead of Bus or train.