Day 2: Sentosa and Safari

Brett: A bit of a lazy morning, slept in until about 9.00am and wandered down for breakfast. We decided that we would jump on the train system again and brave the Monday traffic and congestion, but yet again - I need to stop comparing Singapore's rail system to Perth prehistoric locomotives. No problems what so ever..!

2 trains, one monorail, and an orange bus and we were over at Sentosa island. Took all of 45 minutes door to door.

When you get to Sentosa there are a number of different regions that you can go to...oh it's at this point that I should mention that you won't have a cheap day out at Sentosa, load up the wallet.

The different regions are: Resort World - Universal Studios, Hard Rock Hotel, casino and other fun thing for kids; Imbiah Lookout - up the top of the hill which houses the start to the luge, MegaZip adventure park, and the Tiger (named after the local beer) Tower, 4D cinema and other simulations; Siloso Point - Pink Dolphins @ Underwater World, Wavehouse (Flow Riders...Jaz enjoyed herself) and the beaches of Sentosa; and the last Serapong - resorts, golf courses, you know... for the rich only.

We fluttered around Sentosa for a few hours until we had to scoot back to the hotel to catch our pick up to the Night Safari and Dinner.

Jaz: The driver was early which meant I had to drink my freshly made malibu and diet coke faster than I would have liked, but at least they hadn't accidentally left us off the list. There was a transfer at the Singapore flyer then our bus load of people with purple "night safari with dinner" stickers headed out of town towards our destination.

The night safari is a must do in Singapore. Our buffet dinner was delicious, there was a range of interesting looking shops in the main section, the tram/open bus ride was cool (you could see most of the animals, even if they were just laying there) and there were 3 walking tracks you could choose from to get up close and personal with the animals. Our tour guide recommended the Leopard walking track as opposed to the others, so that's the one we did. It was really cool walking through the jungle at night, coming across different enclosers as we went. The leopards were very courteiously sleeping right night to the glass of their encolsure, Brett got some awesome photos. The giant flying squirrels put on a show for us, as did the civets and the fruit bats. Other highlights included the playful otters, the bathing hippos and the english tourist who exclaimed "it looks like a cat!" when she was looking at the creature in the "Golden Cat" enclosure, to which Brett replied "...like a golden one?" We all had a good laugh at that, especially the english tourist's friends!

I did get to see the malaysian tigers, but only just! They were all sleeping at the back of their enclosure - a small pile of orange and black. It didn't help that there was another smaller bus parked along side the enclosure which our bus stopped right next to, blocking our view. If the tiger had been up and about I would have jumped off to get a better look, but as it was, there wasn't much to see anyway. The elephants were in great view a little further down the road which was cool, but it made me sad to see the big male bull swaying his head from side to side, I saw on a documentary once that's a sign of depression. Looking at the size of his enclosure it wasn't surprising that he was distressed and depressed. Very sad.

It turned out that we had a good photo taken of us before the tram took off (yet another "let's get more money out of tourists" ploy). So like the cash rich tourists we are we bought ours. What's $20 for a nice sourvenier aye?! Brett: As soon as we got off the tram one of the girls runs straight up to Jaz and goes "Oh...i know where your photo is!" meaning - I spotted the tall red head in the green dress!

Brett: We had a look around some of the different room categories last night at the Naumi. The corporate suites and luxury suites (See photo) are HUGE. Each room category have the same little nic-nacs i.e. Nespresso machines, flat screen TV's, huge frige with complimentary soft drinks etc, so don't feel left out if having to choose the Premier Rooms. The 2 bedroom suite is PERFECT for family with 1 or 2 kids, as it has a seperate kids styled room, with smaller flat screen (which you can hire Wii's or Xbox for) and DVD player.

Anywho...that was 5 minutes of work...but great to see the rest of the building. I rate the Naumi hotel highly.