Starting from Bangkok direction of my SE-Asia trip has been towards South. It has included three major cities: Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore and choosing from those three Singapore would be my favourite city. Often the picture of Singapore is to be hectic city state which is major player in import/export and financial businesses with skyscrapers and whitecollar workers. Not to forget to mention also strict laws on various things, but it works as I would say this has been cleanest city I visited in SE-Asia. And yes, I mean it is all true as the most common postcard view is often taken at Marina Bay, but still it is not the whole truth.
I was staying in Bugis area which was really charming and it is only one example of similar areas like Little India or Chinatown for example. You can see as new office or residental towers are rising but still major feature in these areas is narrow streets filled up with endless amount of cozy colourful small cafeterias, bars and restaurants as various amount of designers boutique selling something unique for example to decorate your apartnment. This feature brings a really nice contrast for the downtown business center big Louis Vitton shop built right by the seaside.
As I've been spotting so many UNESCO world heritage sites while being in Asia, during this summer new announcements was told by UNESCO which places would be granted with heritage status. One new place was Botanical Gardens in Singapore so even that Im not much a flower person, I decided to check it out, and by saying not being a flower person I mean that I own just one plant at home and even that one is not real... Well about the Botanical Gardens, to be honest I wasnt amazed about it. It was just a big park with lots of green in it and with the main sight, Orchid gardens: 20 years of growing orchids and developing new species. It was a nice walk overall but would not do it again.
Of course a real metropolitan city need some landmarks what comes also to night life culture and definately a highlight of Singapore is Raffles City hotel, home of famous Singapore Sling drink. Unfortunately I didnt have time to try it, but my friends did and they told that there is no need to try that drink anymore anywhere else as it was so good.
Last evening my Singaporean friend Jessica, who I met while studying in Beijing took me to see some nightlife with her friends. We went to the club called Avalon which is right by Marina Bay, built over the water. Walls are made out of glass so while your clubbing, it is possible to see stunning nightview over the bay, Not bad at all. But everything has its price, I payd 15SGD (10e) for 0,33l imported German beer which wasnt even a good brand. And what was weird is that often from the club is nice to go outside to cool down for a moment, but here in Singapore as the air is so humid, it feels the same or even warmer outside the club than in the club itself..
Despite the prices or climate Singapore is so far from a big Asian cities I've visited the one where I could imagine to live in.
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