Singapore!

The first thing I heard in Singapore was the sundown Rawa from the Sultan Mosque right by the hostel. Nice to hear it again, felt like life just stopped as everyone took some time to pray.  Singapore's beautiful, and full of great places to eat and drink and have some fun, but it's not as cheap as you might think! Really enjoying my hostel -  met some great people and had lots of fun with them. 

We went to Little India for lunch and a wander....

We also went to the Night Safari Zoo where we saw lots of animals just roaming around. We had to walk through a bat enclosure where all the bats were flying around just free as you like!

On my last night in Singapore we saw an awesome light show down on the harbour and wandered around all the swish hotel areas feeling like posh tourists instead of backpackers!

Insa and I had our Singapore Slings - a cocktail invented in Singapore many years ago and now served everywhere in the world.  It was worth the $15!

Ready for the off?

"I'm sitting in the airport feeling sick with held back tears.  Very hard to say goodbye. Can't write about it yet." I don't think I'll ever forget the feelings coursing through me as I wrote those lines in my trusty pink travel journal.  Once I got on the plane, I spent TWELVE AND A HALF hours desperately trying to sleep, but unfortunately I ended up spending all that time squished between a 6' 5'' man who snored and a girl who had the audacity to look perfectly comfortable and slept like a baby. After about three hours in the air, there was a medical emergency on board and the poor attendants were rushing about with oxygen, looking for a doctor, defibrillators and the whole shebang.  By the time I got to Singapore, I was very happy to get to my hostel and dump my bag!