Right now we are sitting at Singapore airport and while we are waiting we are blogging a little bit about about our stay in Singapore.

We started the day with a visit of the Singapore Flyer – the world’s biggest observation wheel (at least for now, there are currently quite a few other cities building or planning even bigger ones…)

The wheel is 165m high and offers a unique, fantastic view over Singapore port and the city skyline! Unfortunately we hit a hazy day and so Malaysia kept out of sight.

Subsequently we treated ourselves with a delicious coffe at Starbucks and planned the rest of the day.

Next was the Mariamman Temple, a Hindu-Temple that features many colourful and interesting figures and hinduistic art.

From there on we explored the city by foot and strolled through the chinatown markets. To our deepest regret we had to decline some fantastic offers for getting a tailer-made suit of the highest quality and the lowest price. We were offered this bargain only about 200 times, a crying shame that we didn’t have time for something like that

And there were many more delicacies of which the traders could hardly get us off from (dried sea horses and other goodies)

After that we visited Thian Hock Keng Tempel, this time chinese buddhism. At the entrance we met a german travel group so that we could listen to some explanations as a bonus. We did – unlike the russian tourists – however not go so far as to make sacrifices in the temple.

Finally at the end of our Singapore visit, we strolled through the shopping malls and ate a little something in a hawker center in Orchard Road.

And that was more or less already the end of our day in Singapore and after a refreshing (short-term) but given the enormous sticky heat rather useless shower in Thilo’s apartment we went on to the airport (A cordial “Thanks” to Thilo).

And now we are waitung for our flight to Sydney… Australia, we are coming!