Blogs from Sentosa Island, Singapore, Asia - page 7

The first full day in Singapore so it's off to Sentosa island, the island just off the south of Singapore that has lots of entertainment and beaches. Sentosa is the most southerly point on mainland asia apparently. I use the subway which uses a smartcard, it's 2 dollars with 1 back if you return the card, and then over to Sentosa on the monorail. Once on the island there are couple of artificial beaches but when you look out to sea there are oil tankers waiting to go into port - it puts you off going into the water for a swim. I visited Fort Siloso, the British Fort and learned that it's a myth that the guns weren't used in the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942, they were facing out to sea ... read more

Hi readers Well where were we? Oh yes on Koh Lipe and moving back to a superior bungalow - well, we were lucky they had one but we had to spend three nights in the standard - not so good. As we said cold shower but air con - unfortunately the bloody air con packed up so not a good night's sleep on the last night. So glad to be back to superior even though Bob thinks he has let down the backpacking fraternity by us being wimps. Spent most of the time on the beach during the day and during evening eating and drinking (can't wait to get home to lose weight!!) but we have had the most brilliant time. Booked our snorkelling trip but the day was a bit overcast and windy and not ... read more

Well, we had been told then when it rains in Singapore, it really rains. Sentosa is a small island just off the south coast of Singapore which is a pleasure resort with various attractions and 3 beaches. We went expecting a day of relaxation after a couple of days pounding the streets but unfortunately, only an hour or so after arriving the heavens opened and we were drenched. Although it meant we didn't want to stay is was actually quite fun getting that wet that quickly. Soaking, we headed back to the mainland and back to the hostel to dry out which is where we sit now. If the rain dies off we might walk down to Little India for dinner (the right way this time!) but if not we think we might head to the ... read more

Hey Guys..........aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm in Singapore and LOVING IT!!!!! The country is so so beautiful, the people are so short and lovely and im hvaing lots of fun! Its so surreal, the city is so built up with really tall building but then gorgeous pink flowers every where!!! PRETTY!!! So far I've sunbathed, been to the famous Orchard road strip, seen little asian acrobats and am now off to Santosa Island! Today Im going to play with pink dolphins, going to an old singapor museum and watching a singaporian musical!! "All that Soya Sauce" (Bad joke, I'm sorry)! I've eaten lots and lots, had amazing Suchi, went to hard rock cafe, asian breakfast (fried egg and noodles??!!!)...very cool!! Tomorrow I fly to Darwin, CANT WAIT!! So excited to see australia... Just checked flight, I arrive at 4am ... read more

Since we have been doing pretty fun and "not so serious" things lately this time we decided to do something else. Or actually, someone else decided that already at school, hence we had a field trip to Fort Siloso, which is a coastal artillery battery and one of the twelve coastal batteries which made up ‘Fortress Singapore’ at the start of World War Two. That was pretty much all I knew about the place beforehand. Fort Siloso was almost too easy to access because it was located on western tip of the island of Sentosa (formerly called Blakang Mati — the ‘Island behind the Dead’) which is the island where our school is.Fort Siloso was like in our neighborhood and I didn't almost have any idea that it is really so close The Fort is one ... read more