09/06/2007

City of Lions - Part 1

I'm back for almost 1 week from my trip to the Lion City: Singapore

The trip there was quite smooth. A four hours trip to our Malaysia Custom. What surprised me was the attitude of the Malaysia custom officers check our passports! There's a entry where we must show our passport to cross the bridge to Singapore. I showed my passport as i walked through the post, but the officer wasn't watching at all!! I think she won't even notice if anyone without a passport pass through. It was a different story at the Singapore custom on my way back to Malaysia though. They checked every passport. This is the 1st reason Singapore is so well developed! We arrived at our accommodation around 7pm.

We went to Sentosa Island, a MUST visit place if you were to visit Singapore, so I thought. To my disappointment, The Island was merely a place where there's Pink Dolphins, collection of the history of Singapore, and the Merlion (symbolic icon of Singapore, a Lion with a body of a fish) is located! A friend told us about a Theme Park on Sentosa Island. The bad news was it still in construction. (~_~") lolz !

The staffs in Sentosa were so kind and helpful and polite! Their ways of treating visitors were so professional, unlike those in Malaysia, where visitors complaints of the quality of services.

We visited the:


Underwater World
not much different compared with other underwater world. This is the 1st attraction we went. We took a Taxi from Singapore to Sentosa. When I told the driver "Marine Park", we didn't know I was referring to Underwater World.


Dolphin Lagoon
where the Pink Dolphins are located. They performed stuns, play with the trainers, and splashed water at visitors who wants to take their photo.


Pahlawan Beach


4D Cinema - 3D glasses + Windy environment + Unexpected water spray


Fort Siloso
Old fort where the British army defended themselves against Japanese invasion.

It has human-like "dolls" of the Japanese and British officers. It closes at 530 pm. Maybe something supernatural will happen after night falls. Creepy!


Images of Singapore
Shows of how different races in Singapore enjoyed the development!


Sky Tower
A tower where u can have a 360 degrees view of Sentosa and Singapore


Merlion
The Legendary Guardian of Singapore

On the top of the Merlion.


To be continued...

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