Wake up at 12.00, we missed the breakfast again. Once ready we go to the Sentosa train station. From there, we take a train to Harbor Front. We are too hungry so we stop in a place called Food Republic. This is full of food places specialized in different kinds of food, chinese food, cantonese food, singapore food… There is a big choice. We order some chicken with pasta and then a great soup for 14 SGD (7 euros) for 2 persons. Food is really good.

1 hour to find the bus office from where to buy the tickets to Kuala Lumpur, we buy 2 bus tickets for 49 SGD (25 Euros) each person. Now free time! We want to try the cable car of Singapore that gives a panoramic view of the city! 23 SGD each person and here we go! We are so high! It’s wanderful but I have to keep my eyes closed all the trip long

We take the MRT to go to see the main street of Singapore: Orchard Road. In the MRT there is a poster who makes the citizen aware of how to prevent the security problems.

We are finally in Orchard Road! There are shops everywhere! It seems this country is not feeling the economic crisis we have in Europe. Sina start wandering a new pair of shoes. We go around for an hour until we find a pair of shoes she likes… And then voila’ Sina is super happy! So I take advantage of this moment to take her to check the biggest Apple store of Singapore. Great prices here! A Macbook can cost something like 30% less then Europe. I start wanting to buy everything is in the shop but we still have to check out Hong Kong in few days… So Danilo relax… Outside it’s full of brand stores: Prada, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Armani… seems to be in Milan… but with the only different that… here there are no italians! Finally a place where I still haven’t found any italian!

We go to another shop to buy a camera. The seller shows me a Nikon S220 for 395 SGD (200 Euros). I don’t know the actual price of this camera in Europe but we just go to visit another shop in front of this one and here the same camera costs 250 SGD (125 Euros)… Was the price of the first shop a real price of a tourist price? At the end we didn’t buy anything…

It’s getting late now. We had enough of Asian food so a quick burger and an ice-cream, then back to the hotel.

Sleeping at midnight. Tomorrow next country: Malaysia.

Singapore Lessons Learnt
- Asian capitals are as good and civilized as the european capitals (maybe even more).
- Spend at least 3 nights in Singapore

Best of Singapore: friendly and respecful people, high technology level everywhere, great transportation system, everything cheaper then Europe (except fines), organization of the country, cleanliness of the streets.

Worst of Singapore: humid weather.

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