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Published: March 18th 2007
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Once i had dropped off my bag at the hotel, i decided to go have a look around and get something to eat. There was a mall i saw close to the hotel so i walked to it and had a look in some of the shops. When i was heading back to the hotel, there were loads of women and ladyboys on the streets which freaked me out a bit so i pretty much legged it back to the hotel in fear. We headed out for a meal by the beach and the streets were heaving with tourists and people trying to get you to buy stuff. We wanted to watch the reading/arsenal game and kate wanted to find a place called eddie's bar. When we finally got to eddie's bar, they weren't selling beer because it was some religious day or something so we went to the nearest shop and got some beer. Had to be up at 5am to go get our flight to Singapore which wasn't fun. Singapore was really awesome, its really clean, everyone speaks english and no one is trying to hassle you into a tuk tuk or to buy something. We went into a shopping centre and it was massive, they had loads of shops on each floor and on the top level they had a cinema. The night safari was really good, they had people dressed up in tribal gear breathing fire and dancing around. We saw a nocturnal animal show where they had owls flying around our heads and small creatures running around. I volunteered to go on the stage and have a python put on my shoulders which was good fun, it was quite heavy and very smooth to touch. We boarded our safari bus and headed into the jungle to see the animals. There were loads of different animals like elephants, lions, hyenas and hippo's. On our second day we went to an island called sentosa which was a theme park right next to singapore. To get to sentosa we had to catch a cable cart over the water which was pretty good. We went to an aquarium and got to feed and touch stingrays. We walked through a glass tunnel with all the fish swimming around us, they had sharks and other huge fish in the tanks and some weird looking stuff. There was a pink dolphin show that we checked out which was pretty good but it was roasting hot. We waited around til dark to see the fountain show, they had the water flying all over the place and were projecting images through the water and shooting fire ballls. On our last day in singapore we chilled out and walked round the shops and went to the cinema. We got to the airport just after 5pm and had to wait around because our flight wasn't until 9pm. We arrived in bali just after midnight and got into a taxi to go to our accomodation but the driver couldn't find it. We drove a high street looking for somewhere to stay but the driver said all the places were very expensive. The driver took us to a resort which looked pretty expensive but we were tired and paid for the one night. The next morning we headed back down to the high street and booked into a resort we wanted the driver to stop at last night which turned out to be loads cheaper than the place we just spent a night at. The weather was really nice in bali, very hot and very sunny. There seemed to be a problem with the electricity in the resort, because it kept cutting out ever now and then which was annoying. Found an awesome sports bar run by an english bloke a couple of minutes from our hotel which was really good. There were loads of nice places to eat right by our hotel so we eat in a couple of different places and then stuck to one place called rumours for the last few nights. One night we headed back to the sports bar after a meal for a couple of drinks and it was all kicking off between a waitress and the manager, the waitress was throwing ice a drinks all over the place and even started waving a knife around. It was at this point we decided to make a swift exit and find some where else to drink. Bought some t shirts and shorts in the town for dirt cheap which i was really happy about, just got to find space in my bag for it all now. Felt a bit ill for a few days, couldn't really eat without having to visit the loo shorlty after which sucked. To be continued
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