Leaving Niseko after a week of awesome skiing, we headed south (3,700 miles) down to Singapore. As we’d originally built this itinerary, there was a direct flight to Singapore – 8 hours, but all manageable. The airline later cancelled that on us, so we ended up with roughly an 18 hour travel day from door to door. Boys held up well considering the chaos of dealing with returning rental car, sprinting to our connecting flight, etc.
We were unfortunately only in Singapore for a few days the way the flights turned out. Given the long day arriving there, we took the first day fairly easy – Starbucks pancakes for breakfast, explored the botanical garden and then headed to a fun water park for the afternoon. We were at the botanical garden during overtime of the Pats vs. Chiefs game, everyone thought we were fairly crazy huddled around my phone and then screaming when the Pats won. No real pics from the water park unfortunately. Leaving the water park, we wandered around Chinatown and the various markets/food stalls, ending up at a seafood place to try a few well known Singaporean dishes such as black pepper crab and hainanese chicken.
Next day we met up with the McDuffee clan, who lived in Singapore and happened to be back for a few days in between their own travel adventures. They generously showed us around the Gardens by the Bay, and the kids got to cool down in the water play area. We spent the day from there checking out the cloud forest, supertrees and skyway, hiked over to the Ferris wheel (boys weren’t too happy about that hike in the heat, and I took us the long way by mistake). Later went to a famous hawker market to try a variety of local foods, and then finally went to see the famous light / water show at the Sands. Long day but super fun.
Wish we’d had more time in Singapore, you could immediately sense the many cultures coming together here, wish we’d been able to explore Little India and other spots. Next time.
From here we flew up to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat…
Stumbled into a Hindu celebration our first morning, ouch:
Botanical Garden:
Chinatown dinner, and our first time trying durian (yuck):
Gardens by the Bay / Cloud Forest / Supertree & Skyway:
Singapore Flyer Ferris wheel, 2nd or 3rd largest in world:
Lay Pa Sat hawker centre for dinner, followed by light / water show:
Fosters on the Fly 