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UK - Singapore - Perth

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January 30th 2015
Already it seems like we've been gone ages. We arrived in Singapore on Wednesday and stayed right in the middle of the city, so our first evening we just stepped out and walked around and found somewhere to eat. On Thursday we had a full-on sightseeing day starting with the hop-on hop-off bus, visiting Raffles Hotel, the botanical gardens (wonderful orchid section), a cable car trip over to Sentos ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more