Singapore, the Cleanest City in the World


Singapore is a lovely, gorgeous, clean, tropical, green, safe, populated, multi-cultural city to visit.  When we have visited Singapore in the past, we flew directly from Delhi, India, so Singapore seemed like a safe clean haven after Delhi and all of its glorious filth.  This time  in Singapore I felt we could enjoy it more at a leisurely pace and maybe even appreciate it a bit more in this quick visit.
At the Intercontinental Singapore with the Porter.

The Ferris Wheel at night which is quite a site to see.

The JW Marriott is one of the architecturally coolest buildings I have ever seen.

The Intercontinental Singapore Grand Entrance.  We stayed in the Heritage Wing in this Grand Dame of a hotel and it is located within the historic Bugis area of Singapore.  We loved this 5 Star Hotel and the location was perfect.

The Intercontinental Singapore within walking distance to many great sites.  We got in late the first night and checked in and hit the hay right away.  We had just finished flying a total of 15 hours with one stopover in Manila and we were fried even though we flew Business Class on an upgrade.

We got up the next morning and ventured out for some brunch and toured 3 malls

Inside the Bugis Mall.  There was a Pokemon Trading Event going on.

and ended up at a Ramen Restaurant (which are pretty popular) where we ordered from a QR Code.  It was good and filled us up for the day and we did not eat again.  




It started to pour outside which it does often in the tropics.  We headed back to the hotel room to blog and do some work because even the Intercontinental Umbrellas were not cutting it with the deluge of rain coming our way.

I googled free things to do in the city and came up with 12 things and we had to narrow it down.  I definitely wanted to walk a lot after a day of flying and sitting on my tush.  The city is very pretty and ultra-modern and did I mention super clean?  We did not find one piece of garbage, not one.





There is a boardwalk around the whole bay area and you can literally walk for miles and we did.


We first stopped at Merlion Park to see the old Lion statue.  

The Lion is made out of marble and is over 50 years old.

We continued on and the city is so friendly we just walked into a really exclusive hotel and used their washrooms and no one batted an eye.  We kept walking around the waterway towards the most exclusive hotel in all of Singapore the Marina Bay Hotel.  We walked around in all of the shops and looked around at the poshness.

Inside the posh Marina Bay Shops.



There was a girl video being filmed just outside of the Marina Bay Hotel that day.

The Marina Bay Hotel is a landmark in Singapore and is easily recognized around the world for its unique architecture which resembles a ship on top of two towers.  Hotel rooms within start at over 1300 a night.


We walked into the Bay Gardens which are acres and acres of beautiful gardens and rain forest vegetation.  We probably did not even see 1/5 of the total landscape.


On exhibit in the gardens???


A vegetation clock.

We found where the Super Tree Grove was located because we wanted to watch the light show scheduled for 7:45 pm on the Sunday night.


You can see the vegetation growing up the Super Trees

The lights begin to shine as dusk comes.

There is a walkway at maybe the 9th floor that you can pay 14 Singapore Dollars to walk on which links most of the Super Trees.

We came back and found a place to lie down and take in the light show that is accompanied with Opera Music.  I love Opera Music!! 






It really was a gorgeous show, relaxing and peaceful show.

It was approximately 14 minutes long which did not allow us to get to the Spectra Light and music show on the Bay at 8:00 pm.  There are just too many people to boot it anywhere unfortunately.

We slowly made our way back to the hotel room and returned at 9:00 pm.  We clocked 22,000 steps that day.  Singapore is a great walking city which is safe and full of a multitude of languages spoken which are local and from visitors.

Our only reason this time for visiting Singapore was to catch our 8 night Balinese Adventure Cruise.  We were travelling with friends Garth and Sandra Huber and it was to be their first cruise. Cruise Virgins!!  It is always fun to live vicariously through people and experience their excitement of a first cruise.  I met them for breakfast at Toast Box which is a chain in Singapore and it was just around the corner from the Intercontinental Singapore where we were all staying.

Sandra is seated and Garth you can see through the window 

We quickly re-packed our bags for the cruise and hopped into our taxi cabs and made our way to the Cruise Terminal to board Adventure of the Seas.

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