Matt Down Under

A city tour was part of my travel package so I was picked up early and driven to a bus company in the city from where the tour started.

We stopped at various points in the city, including a Chinese temple and a gem factory (no tour without a visit in at least one gem factory where you can spend all your money on stuff you don’t need). I found the tour was totally fascinating, mostly because Singapore was such a green city, exotic trees everywhere, not much traffic, great architecture, probably the cleanest city I’ve ever seen. Everything looked so well-kept and modern, I loved it.

The longest stop was at the National Orchid Garden, a part of the botanic garden. I really enjoyed it, it was hard to recognise where the city ended and where the botanic garden started. Since my hotel was nearby, I decided to come back in the afternoon.

After the tour a driver brought me to my hotel. I picked up some stuff and went back to the botanic garden. It was the biggest and greatest botanic garden ever, you literally need hours to see everything, totally worth a visit.

Somewhere in the middle of the garden, there was a nice little restaurant and I stayed to have lunch. It was fantastic food, I could see why business people went there for lunch.

It took me hours to walk around everywhere, so I was quite tired back at the hotel. I spent the rest of the day watching the soccer channel and ordered pizza from the room service. What a mistake! It was the worst pizza I ever had, absolutely everything tasted wrong and I had stomach pain throughout the night.