Steffi & Gerry: Trip around the World
Travel Blog of our Honeymoon around the World
Steffi: “Gerry, what time does your watch show?”
Gerry: “(Yawn) It is… oh, damn, it’s almost 11 AM. Damn, we missed the breakfast! Damn, we need to check-out!”
This is how our last day in Singapore started. So we had brunch at “STPI”s, a coffee at Starbuck in a shopping mall and another walk back to the hotel. It was raining, so we couldn’t do much more anyway and we left quite early to the airport, doing the early-check-in for our Qantas flight to Perth, Australia.
We cancelled our initial plans using a hop-on, hop-off bus tour, due to not-so transparent prices and schedules and walked to the bay area again, today under a shining sun (would be resulting a light sunburn in the evening). We checked out the famous Gardens by the bay by daylight and planned to return later again to watch another light show. We were quite lucky to get the time slot for the skywalk at 7:40 PM – 5 minutes before the start of the stunning light show which we could enjoy within the artificial trees.
Afterwards we walked to another place to watch the Marina Bay Sands lightshow again from a different perspective. Being quite tired we went back to the hotel – by foot, of course.
After checking out hotel Furama RiverFront, a bit outside of the city center, we explored the city. We walked along the river to the bay, which was quite nice to do – not much traffic, pedestrian zones, fancy bars along the way and quite pleasant weather (cloudy but not raining at roughly 28°C). From the bay you have a great view to Singapore’s skyline and to the iconic hotel Marina Bay Sands.
We decided to do the touristy stuff and went up to the scenic platform on 56th floor before dusk and to stay for a while to see and enjoy the spectacular view during daylight, sunset and after sunset. At 8 PM the light show “Spectra” was happening, which most of the people enjoy from a different perspective, but it was a unique experience nevertheless.
On the way back to our hotel we stopped at a very nice bar at the river, only to realize after seating to be in a German bar called “Hans im Glück”, serving German food and beer. We enjoyed it nevertheless.
We had an A380 by Emirates to Dubai, where we just had time for the wash room and to grab something to drink, as the next flight to Singapore was already boarding.
