Amazing, Expensive, Luxurious but worth a visit.

Gardens by the Bay
Marina Bay Sands
Sentosa
China Town
Little India

Bicycle repair, Gardens by the Bay, Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands

The Chinese New Year celebrations disrupt my planning with almost a week. During this celebration, almost everything owned by Chinese people is closed, also bicycle workshops. Someone told me they dont´t open until februari 11. But I don´t have any hurry!

Instead I explored Singapore both by walking around but mostley using the subway, Singapore Mass Rapid Transit or SMRT. This transport system it´s smart, fast , quite cheap and very very clean. Both the subway cars and stations. Even though I tried, it was hard to find any graffiti or trash.

You can´t find any garbage, dirt or graffiti

Clean, clean and clean

I have mentioned it before about the Durian fruit and its smell, down here signs on several places forbids you from bringing durian on board

The rules are clear and the fines high if you break some.

Twenty minues later a digital voice announce that we are stoping at Bayfront station. To find my wau out to Gardens By The Bay was easy,
signs, arrows fo follow, can´t miss.

Then I had to follow the walkways which were very well signed. It was like to walk in a green dream garden.

Garden By The Bay is an 105 hectares (260 acres) area with lots of walkways.

In the green city of Singapore lies one of the world's most beautiful parks - Gardens by the Bay - a park
that I could never get enough of.
Didn't have to walk far from SMRT station before I saw the enormous giant trees which resembled a giant Y.

Hard to miss this huge supertree groves.

My first attraction was to visit the OCBC Skyway, a walkway between the crowns of the super trees.

OCBC Skyway is 128 meter long and 22 meters above the ground

When I get there it was a que, but I understand why everyone wants to walk up in the artificial treetops, because the view was fantastic.
The fee cost 8 SGD$ or 55 SEK.

View from OCBC Skyway,WOW.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

There are 18 Supertree Groves in the park, mostley of them light upp in the evening generated from solarpower.

I wandered around the park for several hours and decided that later in the evening I would visit the light show.   Becuse Gardens by the Bay is not just an attraction during the day, in fact the most magical and eye-catching thing happens every night after dark.

The supertrees host a light and sound show every night that is the best I have ever seen in that category. Twice a night, the Supertree Grove is packed with people.

Supertrees lightning up, around 6.30 PM

Everyone sits everywhere on the ground and everyone looks up at the supertrees in awe.

When I was here, a kind of musical show was played with different artists. The music and the performance was fantastic and the supertrees’ light show was magical.

Supertree Magical Show


The light show was not diminished by the city of Singapore being illuminated by shops and stores in the background.

Super tree with one of many light shapes and the city lit up i the background

That I got goosebumps was no exaggeration. That says something about how fantastic and magical this was.

If you are going to visit Singapore, you must not miss this spectactular show and its free

This picture of OCBC Skyway is Photoshopped

Around 10 pm I walked back through a vibrant and colorful Singapore and I was more than satisfied. Stoped for a cold beer at a pub
before goodnight.

See Yeah later
// P-G, The Global Cyclist

 

By |2025-01-23T22:02:23+00:00februari 7th, 2019|General, Singapore, SouthEast Asia|0 Comments

Singapore and Chinese New Year!

February 4

If getting through the border control was easy and hassle-free, getting into the city was a different story. Not my day!

Highways, highways, and highways, Maps.Me counted thirteen of them, none of them allowed cycling and my GPS was not working optimally.

Cycling is not allowed on the Highway Express so I was ”picked up” by the tow truck!!

I naively thought they would give me a ride to the city center, but no such luck! They found an exit on the side of theexpress highway and dropped me off there.

Now I was completely lost. Google Maps offered some help, but after another half an hour or so without even finding a bus and it was almost black dark outside so I had to ask for help at a small airport.

I asked them to call for taxi and also gave them instruction to notify the cab driver that I had a bicycle with panniers. After half an hour the taxi showed up.It was a van so there where no probs to load my bicycle. 25 minutes later he drove into the chinese part of Singapore.

The traffic was anything but sparse—cars, pedestrians, and tourists were everywhere. It was pure chaos. The taxi driver dropped me off a few blocks from Temple Street, my hotel street.

 – I can’t drive any further,” he said.
It’s Chinese New Year, to much people. Just follow the street and look to the right.

We unloaded the bike, and I carried on. Above me hung banners, flags, and colorful lanterns. Pigs in all sorts of shapes and forms were everywhere. For the Chinese, this is the Year of the Pig.

I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the festivities that had just begun.

When I finally found my street, I realized that getting to the hotel, just 500 meters away, would be a challenge. I had never seen so many people on a single street at the same time—three people per square meter, and there I was, with my bike loaded with five bags.

Temple street in evening. The street was packed with people.Imagine me with a bike loaded with five packed
bags who is trying to get ahead!

I squeezed through the throngs of tourists, I caught a strong smell, which turned out to be the fruit durian, also known as the ”king of fruits.”

Many people found this smell is pleasant sweet fragance. I wasn´t none of them👎. For me it was overpowering and unpleasant

Durian fruit, also called ”king of fruits” Very popular in Southeast Asia, especially China (Foto: Sadiq Asyraf/AP/TT)

It took me 45 minutes to find my hotel, Beds Dreams Inn. Inchecking easy and quick. Got a bed in a 4 bed-room on the bottom floor. My bicycle I locked up with a wire outside under entrance roof. My bags I could take into the room.

 

Today distance 177,1 km Travel time 06:16 h.m Total time 12:29:06 h.m
Max speed 46,2 km/h Medium speed 14,5  km/h
Max temp 44,0 °C Average temp 35,5 °C Min temp 27,0 °C

 

See yeah later
// P-G, The Global Cyclist

 

 

 

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