19
Nov 2012

Welcome to the Lion City!

After the low-rise Bali waited for us tall and handsome Singapore:



Upon Arrival, We hit the home comfort Changi Airport.
The floors are carpeted, many cafes everywhere, shops. Beautiful.

But my joy has dimmed, When the immigration officer advised, that for a transit visa you must show your tickets on departure from Singapore, and my train tickets are not listed. Had to get a note right at the airport, buy and print out the lowest prices on Sunday morning (and so wanted to finally take a ride on the train!). The price is only slightly different, but now have to return train tickets.

Printed on local prices 1 Singapore dollar per sheet. It's about 27 Br!

And fair enough it was just wrapping airport, no same – in Lyon City almost all three times more expensive, than us:

Beer 3 bottles for 20 singadollarov:

Cigarettes at 10 singadollarov bundle (pleases, the cigarettes are typing scenic pictures of diseases, smoking-):


The exceptions are the only public transport tickets and electronics (only one and a half times more expensive). They also pay more in proportion to prices, so they buy electronics every two easier, than us, It turns out.

Here's, for example, vacancy at McDonalds, salary 1400$:

At the airport information desk provided a directory of hostels, We have chosen the most low cost out of it and ride, analogiččnom Kuala Lumpur, headed their searches.

During the search took place in Chinatown and the other slums and managed to go through a fruit market and a very peculiar smell a pavilion with durians:

The cheapest separate rooms for two people cost 50 singadollarov, and beds in mixed contained dormitories from 16 per person. After several hours of searching we have greatly lowered the requests have remained in decent hostel Sky Orchids (98SG) in dormitory for 6 man 18 singadollarov for čelovekomesto.
Price includes TV unit, Swedish breakfast (coffee/tea/cocoa, Toast with jam/butter/peanut butter, flakes, Bunting), vayfay, shower, public chair massage, TV and computer.

The first day we went to the tourist part of Singapore – zaliv Marina Bay. On the way to see a lot of interesting:

Traffic lights for pedestrians in Singapore are lit green and after a couple of seconds it starts blinking, but blinks it seconds 10-20.
It was very unusual at first, and now we're breathing even in Russia we will not hurry:

Colorful home:

During the temporary pedestrian tunnels make out very well, – do not couple our skripâŝim šataûŝimsâ boards:

Road works warning do not hastily handwritten posters namalevannye, and the electronic scoreboard:

Excursion vehicle amphibian:

Shaggy trees:

Strange zigzag road markings seen in narrow street:

Medicine in the early 20th century was to be fully armed, This is the logo of a corporation “the best remedy for headaches”:

One of the most recognizable buildings in Singapore – Marina Bay Sands Hotel:

He evening:

Without optical devices we thought, that stretched between the buildings beautiful arc bridge:

It Turned Out, It is seen the Ferris wheel. This wheel is očenpo a bicycle wheel in a rigid fork, revealed.3 in the ground: rim is pulled by cables, How to sleeve velospicami, docked in the plug. The fork for sustainability also attaches cables to multiple points on the surface.

 

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