Spontaneously Singapore!

Part One: The Unplanned Sentosa

Yes, I did a spontaneous trip to Singapore with my mom last week. She came to my room and asked me to book air ticket. I was very surprised why so sudden, but I logged in to airasia.com and luckily found cheap tickets for both of us. Everything is unplanned. Everything is spontaneous. We tried to book a hotel the day before our flight, but there was technical problem so our booking was cancelled. That makes me and mom looked for the “Hotel Reservation” sign the first thing we arrived.

These 2 homeless ladies finally found a great and not so expensive hotel in Orchard road. However after we put our luggage inside the room, we asked ourselves, what do we wanna do today? It was 2 pm and we didn’t know where to go. Great. I expected mom who’ve been here before to be my tour guide, because I know nothing about this Merlion City. Then mom’s spontaneous brain worked. She went to the tour desk in the lobby and asked about the 1 day tour to Sentosa Island. We planned to go around the city today and go to Sentosa Island. However, the tour lady answered, “The bus to Sentosa will depart in 15 minutes. How about you go now and go to city tomorrow?”

What? Wowow. Plan changed? Just like that?? I looked at mom and she nodded. “Okay, we’ll take it!”

So here we are, on the spontaneous bus ride with our funny tour guide, Mr. Chin. He was wearing pink shirt, as pink as the dolphin we are about to see in Sentosa Island. The tour is charged for SGD 86 per person. It is included the cable ride to the island from Mount Faber Station. It is nice for us, who didn’t know where to go to sit on a tour and let the guide bring us everywhere :P

Here are the places we went during our trip in Sentosa:

1. Underwater World

I love aquarium, and here we can touch big manta rays and sharks. So I was dying with happiness. Here’s also we can watch the pink dolphin attraction. It’s short, only 15 minutes. Because Mr. Chin said many people protested the aquarium staffs gave pressure to the dolphin if the show takes longer time. Yeah, remind me of the Cove.

2. Butterfly Park and Insect Kingdom Museum

One thing I adore from this attraction is how they organize the exhibit. They have outdoor park and indoor museum with collection of butterflies from around the world. It is clean and creatively arranged. Also, the museum is air conditioned! So after a sunny trip in the park, the museum is surely a must-go destination.

3. 4D Movie: Pirates

One thing to say about this: My little brothers will love it SO MUCH.

4. Museum of Singapore

I love museum. This is a wax museum where they explain the mix-culture of Singapore. “The Four Winds” show at the entrance explained how Singapore became a country of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian. After a visit to this museum, I dream of making one in Indonesia. An Image of Indonesia, a museum of 300 ethnicities.

5. Sky ride to the venue of Songs of the Sea

This is the best part. We took a sky ride (air floating chairs like the one in ski arena) to the beach. Because on the beach that night, we will watch a show called Songs of The Sea. It is a musical laser/fireworks show whom everyone should not miss.

The best part is, because we were early, we got the best seat on the front! Yeah!

That was the unplanned Sentosa trip which was closed with a Indian-dinner in Mustafa street, Little India, Singapore. We didn’t plan the trip today but it ended up as a tiring but amazingly fun journey! With mom, the spontaneously Singapore will still continue J

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