Singapore

I had a friend from Canada come and visit and we went to Singapore for my summer holiday.  It is basically just a city, but it is one of the cleanest cities I've ever been to.  The sidewalks were so clean.  No spit, vomit, or urine.....ahhh, the things you take for granted sometimes.  Here in Korea, those things are plentiful on the sidewalk.  The buildings in Singapore were either really well kept or new.  I enjoyed some of the architecture.  It had some really unique buildings.

We went to different areas of the city, such as Chinatown and Little India. There was shopping everywhere and they have a good underground shopping system like Korea, except in Singapore it was more like an underground mall, rather than the market-like set up that you find in Korea.

Singapore was fairly expensive but it did have inexpensive options too.  There were way more familiar stores and products there, than in Korea.  It was nice to see some familiar things and eat some familiar snacks.  English is their national language, so that was also a nice change, to have people understand you perfectly and to be able to understand them.

I went to Universal Studios for the first time.  Some of the rides were a bit too much for me and left me feeling a little ill, but some were fun.  We also went to a water park.  I didn't end up staying there to long. There was a crazy water slide that we went on and I scraped my knee pretty good on the landing.  You get in a inflatable boat/raft and then it takes you up on a conveyor belt to the top of the slide.  Then, as soon as you were at the top you get put into the enclosed slide.  When you come out of the enclosed slide, you slide straight down at a sharp angle and then something like a conveyor belt (apparently it's hydromagnetic) takes you back up a steep incline, and then you repeat.  It took us back up three times, by the third time I actually said out loud, "Not again!"  Finally we came to the bottom and the boat tipped and I scraped my knee on the bottom of the pool.  I had to get a bandage and stay out of the water for a bit so we went to the aquarium.

I didn't take many pictures, but I do have a few from the Singapore Flyer, an observation wheel.  Here they are, plus a photo from the Incheon(Seoul) airport.