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Singapore for a day
Really it'll just be a few hours. H has to drive down this week for work. I'm going to go along to keep him company in the car and I'll be on my own while he's at his meeting.
Any ideas about how to spend the time? I've been to Singapore a few times and have done a lot of the touristy things. I haven't been to the zoo. Is that worth a visit during the day? My other option at the moment is to eat my way through about 37 hawker stalls.
Re: Singapore for a day
I would leave the zoo for a night visit (not that I've actually been during the day on all three visits!).
The Asian Civilisation Museum is worth a look http://www.acm.org.sg/home/home.asp, as is the Bird park (but this requires a bit of a MRT trip).
I think the Singapore Zoo is worth it during the day. When we visited, we went both during the day and to the Night Safari, and we had to buy separate tickets for each. I think there might have been a slight discount if you bought them together, but I don't really remember, and I don't think it was huge.
Even without the night safari, the zoo itself is fantastic. There are very few fences, because the enclosures are designed around the animals natural behaviors and reservations. There are also some animals (mostly monkeys) that have some free reign to roam the grounds and just return to a central place for feedings. They have a great schedule of feedings throughout the day, and the employees we met were all very knowledgeable and eager to talk about the animals or answer questions.
I've never been to the San Diego Zoo, but of all the zoos I have been to, Singapore was definitely among the best.
If you're 100% sure you'll be back to Singapore (I imagine this is pretty likely?) then maybe save it for a time you can do the Night Safari too, but you should definitely visit at some point. Personally, I think it's far more worthwhile than most of the places on Sentosa.
If you haven't visited Little India or Arab Street, I think both of those are great options. Chinatown is kind of disappointing compared to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Macau.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I think my expectations were too high. Everyone is always gushing about it, but for the most part it was shiny animal eyes in the darkness. There was only one enclosure we found (when we were exploring some of the pedestrian areas on our own after the train ride) where the animals were really active. (And it was kind of creepy. Little rodent things that were maybe waiting to be fed, because they ran from one end of their pen to the other following us.)
I might also be spoiled, because the Indianapolis Zoo has some evenings during the year when they stay open late. So the idea of being in a zoo after dark wasn't a completely new experience.
a girl from Hawaii, living the expat experience in India.
Thanks for the feedback. The Asian Civilizations Museum looks interesting too. It seems like I've got a few options, I just need to work in the time to stop by the Nespresso store and fill up on coffee pods while I am there.
Totally off-topic, but is it true you can recycle them in Switzerland? How does that work? Over the last five years, we've actually cleaned and stored hundreds of capsules in case we happen to take a trip to Switzerland.
Cool! Thanks!