After 24 hours in Singapore, we find ourselves at CHANGi airport again, waiting for a 6AM flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia where we will be touring temples for 2 days. This required us to wake up at 3:45, but oh well, we got a decent deal on a flight.
Our one-day in Singapore was great. We had some delicious local food & refreshing freshly-squeezed fruit-juices at a "hawker center" which is an open-air cafeteria with lots of vendors. We knew it was authethentic when we were the only white people there. We spent the afternoon wandering around Little India and Arab Street in humid, at-times rainy weather. The consensus was that this part of Singapore was like a "crappy fleamarket", though quite colorful.
In the evening we had drinks at a great spot on the Riverfront. Lots of al fresco dining restaurants around the river, with massive sky-scrapers everywhere you looked. I had the mandatory "Singapore Sling", a concotion made of gin, cherry brandy, grenadine, bitters, pineapple liquor & some other stuff - it was delicious! We ate a really nice restaurants full of business-folk - had the "national dish" - chili crab & black pepper crab. This morning we got taken to the airport in a Mercedes limo cab, so we haven't been "roughin' it" too much yet. Cambodia here we come!
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Sounds like great fun. So glad Team Fenwick is blogging about their adventures. It's exciting to hear about your travels. Keep having fun. Can't wait to see pics. Sto Lat!
Based on your posts, once you are over there is it easy to catch cheap flights to different places? That sounds like a cool way to travel on the fly (pun very much intended).
it is pretty easy. we were a bit concerned coming over without reservations but, yeah, if you have money, people will be happy to take you wherever you want to go. when we get off the buses here, we feel like rockstars as dozens of people are clamoring to give us a ride in their "tuk-tuk".
flights are a bit hit or miss.
for instance, we're trying to book a flight within vietnam from cambodia but apparently it's loads easier and cheaper to do it from w/in vietnam ...
as long as you have time, money flexibilily and patience (yes, yes, yes, working on it), all things are possible ...
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