On the same show must go necessarily, it’s not like the light and music fountain in Prague, Barcelona, Feodosia, etc. Fountains here play a minor role. In reality, this musical tale show, you can tell the volume animation where the shapes are formed with color lasers in the spray of fountains. Nothing like this anywhere else I’ve ever seen. Representation begins at 19-40 and 20-40 every day, lasts 40 minutes and, oddly enough, absolutely free (you only pay for the entrance to Sentosa around $ 2). Do not try to photograph – nothing happens! Should take place closer to the center (at the side of the figure seen from the distortion) or better in a row (since the evening is often rainy and difficult for the umbrellas will be something to consider).
On Sentosa a couple of good hotels for those who want to relax in the tropics in nature, but living in a big civilized city. It is more expensive than a similar holiday in Bali, Phuket, Langkawi and the like, and the sea is essentially a water area of the huge port with dozens of ships at anchor to the horizon, but for people with difficulty carrying a long break from city life is the fact – minutes 20 and you’re in the heart of Singapore. You can get to Sentosa on the ferry, bus, cable car and even on foot. Travel by cable car did not make me any particular impression. The upper station is located on a hill, where to get longer than the walk over the bridge to Sentosa, and the view from it is not better than a high floor of any building in the center. You can take the cable car at the intermediate station (as do most) on the shore of the Strait of World Trade Centre (there is some new metro station, seems to Harbour Front, from which you want to climb on the elevator). From the same ferries and buses.
Being in Singapore and can not do without shopping. The main places for this are Chinatown and Orchard Rd. But there’s a good buy clothes and souvenirs. Electronics is better to take in the shopping center at Sim Lim Square (at the intersection of Bencoolen street and Rochor Canal Rd.), From Orchard Rd. 15 minutes walk. This type of multi-storey knowledge of our Gorbushka “, but in a more civilized version. Just do not make stupid – do not buy anything heavy and bulky, because box at the airport in Singapore should definitely take the baggage and payment for excess baggage significantly outweigh the benefits from the difference of prices in Russia and Singapore. Prices everywhere are declared in Singapore dollars (U.S. $ 1 = okolo1, 7 SGD. $), Where denotes the Singapore dollar also marked $! In Chinatown and Sim Lim Sq. You can pay in dollars and the U.S., but in most other places have to pay Singapore. Exchangers in the center very much.
In the city remarkably organized public transportation represented bus and subway. Metro is very convenient, almost everywhere except the center, overhead, is on the viaduct (both in South Butovo) and you can survey the neighborhood. Metro continues to build every year opens several new stations, so the scheme in the guides are almost always outdated. The fare depends on distance. Scheme fare quite strange – in vending machines at the entrance to the station hangs underground scheme, and about every station on the scheme in the circle indicated the fare before it. However, the machine does not have to put that amount, and at 1 Singapore dollar more! (You can put more – provides automatic delivery), then click the name of the desired station and the type of ticket (usually a standard one-way). The machine will issue the card you upon arrival at the destination station must pass through a turnstile to exit, and then stuff into the machine, which sells tickets – you will return the overpaid when buying a ticket dollar. There are travel for a day or several days, and so on, but writing about them, I’m nowhere at the stations found and spoken English is not strong.
If you want to get into any popular tourist site by public transport (Zoo, Sentosa, etc), contact the cashier station and you will be given a free listing in English to which station to go and change seats on a bus, with several options ways to choose from! The bus driver sells the tickets, the price also depends on the distance. Some of them double-decker. There is a clear timetable of buses, which usually hangs at the bus stop. Very often it is convenient to travel only on buses without a subway, especially in the vicinity of the center, which should get a brochure describing all the routes and the scheme (not bought, as was too lazy to look for, and later regretted).
I said goodbye with his band, fly away home, moved into its budget accommodation in Waterloo, 55, (pre-bought a ticket to Moscow from Kuala Lumpur a week after the tour and air ticket Singapore-Kuala Lumpur had to be left on your memory, that is since bought tickets for group rate swap and pass separately can not), and continued examination of Singapore has its own program. Of the tourist places decided to visit the Chinese Garden, located on the west, near the metro station «Chinese Garden» and the zoo. Chinese garden is divided into two – the Chinese and Japanese, in detail all guidebooks written. Especially interesting to me seemed to show Bonsai plants. The zoo is located near the Chinese Gardens, at only 4 metro stops (with change) to the station Choa Chu Kang, and further avt.927 to the end. This is one of the best zoos in the world where animals live in conditions close to natural. To observe the animals, nocturnal organized night safari.