We were in Singapore? Bashny.Net

A stay in Singapore - all the same that kereta lama (time machine) transported into the most probable future of the Earth:
1) skyscrapers,
2) the high cost,
3) high-tech,
4) prohibited all
5) The terms of some Chinese.
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The difference with Moscow time:
India - 3 hours,
Malaysia - 4 hours,
Singapore - 50 years.





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1) Skyscrapers - clear. Earth a little, a lot of business. They say that no building in the city was built without consultation with a specialist in feng shui. Five of the highest office buildings surround, like the fingers, the palm area, where has the biggest (allegedly) fountain in the world. It is called "fountain of wealth" and is intended to bring to the city fenshuyno agromadnye denzhischi. With its help you, whether they are involved. Singapore - richer than most European countries. Hence -
2) the high cost. Write - prices almost in Moscow. Do not believe it, they surely higher than in Moscow. Travel, entertainment, museums, groceries ... cheaper - not much - clothes in Little India - a lot - food for Chinese food courts.
3) High technology is the air of Singapore. It's his trick in the world and a source of income. For example, walking down the street, suddenly the wooden sidewalk and grass around.
Lenka:
-Oh, How green the grass is, though artificial!
I (touching):
-She Is artificial. A wooden sidewalk, by the way, the plastic is actually ...
This is the city: chrome, glass and equipment.
4) Singapore penalties - a byword. Thousands of dollars thrown a piece of paper, cigarette ... It raskurennuyu disciplines. The local prison sitting in the mainly migrant workers. An indigenous person and would never violate something. He not only never seen in my life "outlaws", but is not aware of its existence. As in Orwell's book, in a society where the future of the word "free" has only one meaning: "not close".
Prohibitions extensive and as a result, sometimes absurd. For example, chewing gum is prohibited. Not on the street, not in a public place, but in general. Import terminated 20 years ago - and Amba. Why is that? I dont know. At the same time a lot of smokers, and in the streets, too. Cigarettes - can bubble uproar - no.
5) The Chinese we have loved for this month, and if they are destined to inherit the planet, I personally do not mind. In Singapore, the Chinese - the majority of the population. It's all here, they built, developed and implemented. Would say: learn to eat with chopsticks, it is time - but the Chinese themselves are already moving in the forks and spoons. Yes, it is more convenient and can be condescending smile, looking like Kolupaev orthodox Chinese consumers in a handful of rice. But if you think, Now we eat with a fork, and Chinese - with chopsticks. A thousand years ago we were eating with unwashed hands, and the Chinese still eat with chopsticks. )

And thanks to the Chinese women to go out to the streets, as a holiday. In every region of the world their preferences in clothing - somewhere worn sari veil somewhere, somewhere (like Europe) - shapeless sweater and jeans. Chinese women of Southeast Asia are - almost nothing. So much of the bare feet of the priests, as I saw in Singapore for 4 days, I do not see in Moscow for the whole season. Mini shorts, skirts, belts, heels, tops ... Naturally, a feast for the eyes! Especially when you consider that many Singaporean awesome pretty pretty pretty pretty awesome. I think it's because Singapore - essentially a secular state, and there are not that commanded the Prophet or any Indra, and that sexy, beautiful, and also convenient to such a heat. This is another sign of the probability of the future in Singapore - a low level of religiosity. Presented dialogue:

Singaporeans - the gods, and the gods! We want to live well!
Gods - Akhal-mahalay done!
Singaporeans - Okay, thank you all, all free!

It is known as the phenomenon of correlation between the level of economic development and the degree of religiosity. Compare, for example, "Catholic" France and Catholic (without the quotes) to Mexico ...

Set aside abstraction to a reality!
Russian citizen to get into Singapore is not very easy. Or do you need a visa, which requires necessarily a return ticket, and air. Alternatively, you can drive into the city without a visa at all - in 96 hours. To do this, you need to have a ticket to a third country and a ticket out of (!) To this third country. For example, we drove from Malaysia - fly to Indonesia, with tickets also from Indonesia. So we did. More than 4 days in Singapore still has nothing to do, but do not bother with the embassy necessary. On the border terminal, reminiscent spaceport employee long sought Russia in the list of countries that are not found and asked: Okay, that's the ticket, and where a visa? I pointed to the list of where Russia is entitled "96-hour transit». And, says Hood, Hood, pass. Rarely Russian sees traveling alone.
The bus in which we were traveling from Melakki (ultra-modern, two-storey and nearly empty) waited for us until we passed control. So it should be. He came to one of several bus stations, Lavender Bus Station. That's good, because life is the best in this area. So, if you will bring to Singapore, you can do so:
You leave the bus parked on the street Lavender, pass a hundred meters to the west to the intersection with the street Besar. At the crossroads - food court "Lavender" - the best place for stolovaniya. Many varieties of dishes, clean, fun, great for 3-5 dollars for dinner. The dollar, which I will remember, not so terrible as an American. It is Singapore, a little more than 20 rubles at the exchange rate.
To live. At the junction turn left and just walk along Besar. There are several hotels on the road that offer a bed in a dormitory for $ 16, and it's the cheapest way to spend the night in Singapore. Rooms are mixed. Air conditioning, safe, tea, coffee, breakfast, free maps, a "zone baldezh" for guests with armchairs, TV, books, kitchen and so on. - All offer the same level. We stayed in the Welcome Inn.
At the end go right Besar streets Dickson and Dunlop - there area Little India, where cheap prices even more. Hindus there are many! If you are unable to visit India, here - a good opportunity to see them un mass. The colorful, little black. Tamils ​​because. They are imported from the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. Now, one of the five official languages ​​of Singapore - not Hindi, namely Tamil. That's really who (See above.) And ate a thousand years ago, and now eating his hands, and right on the pavement and straight from the asphalt. In the evening going to the area from all over the city - stotysch some Hindus. As we have in the City Day festivities density! And now knee-deep garbage, already some vegetables and rags pass from hand to hand ... Sound familiar, hehe. Where hundreds of Indians - already there and flavor, and odor, and din - all without which India can not live. That the Chinese are building a brighter future in the factories and offices, the Indians prefer to trade with each other - to each his own!
The first day we walked around the city. We got to Chinatown. On the main street in a row: a mosque, a Hindu temple and a brand-new (built in 2008), Temple of the Tooth Relic. Hollow tooth showed. In the neighborhood are many reputable stores. That's who would have thought that it is there and you need to bargain! Eyeing the lens cap. It is known that the issue of Nikon loses Canon, which prisobachit cap to the lens on a leash and are not lost. I have already lost two, and decided to find a rope, in order to stop the unhealthy trend. Found. What, I ask, is? $ 33! Yes, you're crazy, I say. Bye. Nanan, says the manager - name your price! A store, recall, smart, all in glass, air conditioning. I speak - I more than 10 dollars Singapore for what would not give for this device. About ten - this is good, let the money on your cover. Normal at all? )
Three major attractions includes Singapore's Sentosa Island is the Aquarium, the Museum of Asian Civilizations and the Zoo. All of us covered!
Details:
Sentosa have to go to the subway station Front Harbor, then by bus or monorail. Last cheaper - $ 3 here and there. But, if you really save, share a way for $ 2: buy for the money for the bus ticket one way and come back to the monorail. It turned out that tickets for the monorail is checked only on the mainland, at the entrance and on the island and no turnstiles at the output and supervisors. This is only possible in Singapore where something break, or somewhere to cheat anyone would dream of and never for that. Local years never thought of before, to think out what Russian head instantly. (But this is a rotten zadornovschina. Enough generalizations and comparisons in the style of "they are stupid").
Sentosa - recreation area. Nedodisneylend with nedolesom and nedoplyazhem. Plastic, haytechno, expensive-rich. The most tourist-kitsch place while our Asian way. It was hot and Saturday, not the best day and the weather. Aquarium of the Pacific - a good institution, but at 21, $ 5 I expected more and better exposure. The price includes the show in the Dolphinarium: sucks. The worst of those he had seen. Dolphins any special, purple. It looks like a scalded with boiling water. Anyway. Lenka was the first time in the aquarium and dolphin show, that's good. He promised to give her ticket to Moscow Dolphinarium, where the program is much better.) If you visit the small - Sentosa you can safely skip.
Jellyfish in aquarium for example.



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Museum. Around City Hall, opposite the City, near the river, in the building of the colonial era. $ 8. Generally speaking, even the Moscow Museum of the East has a much richer collection than this, the world-famous. But the interesting approach to the visitor. This is what is missing our big museums. For example, in the hall of the Middle East has a platform with rugs and cushions, shelves with turbans: Wear, Razuvaev, lie down, go ahead, look around. In other rooms there are compartments for "yuzaniya" - can be ceremonies in the clothes of the region, tap into local drums sit on a local furniture. Interesting in the museum - not just behind glass, is shorter. And the most wonderful thing - TV guides. Each room comes with buttons. It shows the head of the actor-guide. You press the button - it starts to tell. But then he does not turn off! Actors very long shot-up: who pray, who read, who are gaining sms and some sing under his breath. Silence, twilight and heard: "good night, sleep tight ...». They look you in the eye so earnestly: well, including us, we have something to tell you ... Tin! One is forced to imagine how the night image flock to the darkest room and complain about destiny. The horror.)
Zoo. They say the best in the world. I can not believe. Now we have to work hard to find a better zoo. Here here - should definitely go! To go to the center about an hour: the subway and bus. $ 18 for a regular ticket. There are night safari, go, time is running out. The main thing is not even the fact that a lot of animals, and that they are well. Therefore, they are happy and cheerful white tiger washes and scratched, and then collapses on his back and legs dangle. Lions fight and fool around. And so on. Not eyes that shine out of the hole, do not sleep a dusty rug, namely animals - in all its glory. How is it possible to zoo staff? Thought literally everything. Territories of the great beasts, grates almost nowhere to be found, you can see from all sides by means of special glass boxes - we just fell to my childhood, the right word. And what there is a water show with a sea lion named Carlos! Will the zoo - Say hello to this macho. Tell him that he is a hundred times better lilac dolphins - he will understand.)
Vzhuhh-otter zoo, for example.



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The last chord of Singapore (for most, on the contrary - the first) airport. Of course "the best in the world." Because this is not ashamed to fly is not that Jakarta - on Alpha Centauri. The flight was very early, so we arrived in the evening. Strong sense: Cyclopean sparkling terminals - and you in this space almost alone. The future! This is a city where even the railway station - powerful experience.

A few more pictures.
A brand new hotel with swimming pool (yes, this is the pool!). There you can swim and watch the 300 meters of the abyss beneath them. I suspect that it is necessary to change the water more often than usual.)



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The metro can be trampled by Andrei Arshavin.



07.
If you could see the heat, it would look like. Air conditioning.



08.
American Mickey Mouse bent down and adapted for seating. Above this casus laughs local Asian lads. Elephant embarrassed podhihikivaet in trunk rybolvy (symbols of Singapore, by the way), and frankly lybyatsya whispering and laughing at all the tiger's mouth, already turned away, poor.)



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Suddenly there was another old woman.



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