4 Days in Singapore

Day 4

Day 4 is a free day, free day for me equals with Adventure Day. And so, as I planned before, first I was going to Singapore Zoo together with Reza and Andin, and after that we’re traveling along Singapore.

At about 10 am of local time, we’re done our panel discussion and reviewing our trip for the last 3 days. And so, we went straight to the nearest MRT station (Al-Junied), to go to Ang Mo Kio station, to later continuing by bus 189 to Singapore Zoo. The journey itself has become and adventure already. Since it’s located so far away from our hotel, and located at the edge of Singapore. It takes about one and a half our even by using all Rapid Transportation.

At about 12 in the afternoon, we finally reached Singapore Zoo, it has a cool entrance made of wood, and it has a unique ticket with barcodes behind it to open the gate, so we can enter the zoo. Singapore  zoo is the world’s best Rainforest zoo. That’s what the brochure said. 

And so, we have about 4 hours walking around this zoo. They don’t put the animals, in the cage, they just let them free in their space. Instead, they have some aquariums like for us so we can have a closer look at even to the beast.

 

It has also a huge dome inside that works as the butterfly, and bird park. We can travel along this dome, and have a rainforest adventure like experience. A very cool place I think. And I luckily had myself a chance being passed by some birds just next to me. Definitely one of the best experience I’ve had of all.   

The Entrance to The Dome

 

Feeling enough of enjoying the zoo, we went to the souvenir shop. Well, I actually interested in some merchandise they sell, but I ended up buying only the coolest one, a “poncho” of Singapore zoo.

 some animal photographs i took

Rejak's expressions

As we planned before, after having great times in Singapore Zoo, we’re traveling around Singapore. And it begins first when Reza took the wrong bus, that makes us later being brought to I don’t know where named Choa Chu Kang. Luckily in Singapore, wherever you think you’ve lost, all you need is just going to the nearest MRT station, and you’re safe already.

the distance between choa chu kang and ang mo kio

And so we went to the Cho Chu Kang MRT station and bought tickets to Bugis. Bugis is a place where we can buy some souvenirs. Arrived at Bugis, I luckily had a a chance of meeting her. But that time she seemed angry, so I decided to move on rather than annoyed her for more.

It’s about 4 pm at local time, and we haven’t had a pray yet. So we asked for the nearest Mosque, and move to there. It wasn’t far enough from Bugis, but it brought us to Arab Street already. We had our pray there, and go back to Bugis. We bought some souvenirs there, well, I actually only bought one T-shirt for my father. Since there’s nothing on my size that looking good enough and there’s nothing so for my sister, we continue our trip to Chinatown.

Chinatown is so much like a street market decorated by so many Lampions hanging. It sells Singapore souvenirs and some unique stuff. There’s also a food court that sells all Chinese food.

We had two laps walking around Chinatown before I finally decided to buy two clothes. And during that walking time in Chinatown, we walked too far till we reached little India. It smells really India there. Yeah, it smells so much like incense.

Done with shoping time, we’re going to Vivo City. And a little more incident happened. We bought a wrong ticket to Marina Bay instead of  Harbour Front. And so, we trapped inside the station since the machine refused to open. It said “insufficient funds” . Feeling a little in trouble, we decided to go to Passenger Office, and then we’re asked for 10 cents, so we gave what we’re asked for, so our ticket card is upgraded and we finally could go out of that station.

We’re actually going to Vivo City to have a meeting alumni time. As I remembered that the meeting should happen at Amphitheatre of Vivo City sky Park. But this is where another incident happened. We were at the meeting point, but there’s no one we know exist. So we walked around the sky park, wishing that we’d meet someone we know, but unluckily, we’re not. (Later we know that the meeting point is changed to Dhobby Ghaut Sky Park)

Having a super tired legs, we decided to go home. That’s when we met Chery, another friend of us. We don’t know why, but meeting Chery felt so much relieving. So we went back to our hotel together, and have a chance to walk by the Lor.18 of Geylang (the “worst” Lor of Geylang). And that’s it. Our Adventure is over. AN AWESOME LEG KILLING JOURNEY. Hahaha!