Accidentally went to the beach. Fun day! Feb 27

I hopped on the Metro this morning intending to go to the harbour and see if I could book a ferry trip part way to my next destination but no they just go to a little island close by which didn't help. I think there is another harbour I could check though. Anyway, I looked around while I was there and was planning to take the Metro to some other interesting place.

When I turned around to leave I saw this cable car coming out of the top of the World Trade Center and I though "Why don't I go up there and ride that to see where it goes?" Some people should be laughing right now because they know how much I don't like those.

I bought a round trip since it was only $2.00 more just in case. Then I made a very bad decision. They cable went both ways out of the trade building so I chose the city side before the water side because I thought I might want to end up on the water side.

I was alone in the car so I could talk to myself out loud as I thought about being splattered all over the highway below.

There was a park there you could walk in on this side but I decided to get back on and ride the other way before I lost nerve.



There was only one pole between the building and the water side so the cable was fairly saggy I thought.

Some views from up there.

Looking down on a cruise ship. It might be the only one I ever see the inside of.

Many ships waiting for a berth.

You can't see what's in the area from the end of the cable but when I asked they gave me a handful of brochures and I spent the rest of the day finding out.

The whole area is called Sentosa and it turned out to be amazing. First stop at Siloso Beach.

Apparently the sand was brought in but they have a very nice beach and you could spend the day right here. There are lots of restaurants and facilities. Here are some volleyball nets.

Beach guard stand.

Floating bridge to a little island which is where the zip-liners land.

Here you can see the zip-lines and the landing nets.

Here comes somebody now.

Other attractions on this beach are a simulated parachute jump, a climbing wall, a flying trapeze and a luge ride that you take a chair lift up to. Apparently there is a wave pool somewhere too.

Just a view.

And another....

The beaches are connected and I walked over to the next one called Palawan Beach. It looked much the same but is more geared for smaller children.

You can see a little island in the center with twin lookout towers on it. This piece of land is the southernmost point in Continental Asia.

This suspension bridge takes you across when the tide is in.

Just for the record, I am standing at the back of that island.

A view from the little island. This beach has The Song of the Sea water show, and animal and bird encounter park and a water feature for babies to play in. There were free buses to take you up and down the beaches.

I already thought the place was amazing and I was nowhere near done.

There was a third beach which I didn't go to. By now I knew there was a free sky train which I could use to go back to connect with the Metro I had come down on. Yes! No return trip on the cable.

There were three stops on the sky train going back, each not far from the last.

The first was the Merlion Plaza. Merlion is the symbol of Singapore.

There were waterfalls, pools and nice gardens there.

The next stop was at the Imbiah lookout. The area is quite elevated and there are escalators and stairs to get you higher.

Now that I have the map I can see that this is where I came in on the cable car and it is also where the Luge ride leaves from to go to the beach.

It is defiantly one impressive complex. They whisk you where ever you want to go for free. There is all kinds of access to the park and lots of underground parking.

This is the tiger tower. I gave it a miss as I had already been up in the air too much today.

On this tower the circular part comes down to ground level to let the people out.

Here I am in the Easter Egg Patch.

By now I am very tired of walking but decide to take a look at the last stop since I am there. Would you believe that Universal Studios is here also. It didn't seem like they had sound stages but they had shows and rides that showed off some of the film industry's technology.

Rides like this with the red track traditional roller coaster (right side up) going at the same time as the blue track with those people hanging in harnesses from the underside of the track. You can bet I wasn't on that one.

It was quite like Disneyland but with movie themes. I did a few of the rides and shows and walked around for a couple of hours and headed for the hostel. It was pretty expensive to get in to the Universal theme park but once in everything was paid as many times as you wanted. Even so, if there hadn't been a huge discount for seniors I wouldn't have gone.

This candy shop was full of people. What compelling advertising.

What an amazing day, especially considering I had no real plan. This would be a great place to come with kids too.

There are a couple of casinos and several resort hotels connected with the park too. Something for everyone.

This street is near my hostle. The crowd is outside a bar where they have a soccer match between India and England on TV. The crowd goes right across the street, getting the game by osmosis I suppose. When cars come down the street they slowly move apart and then fill in again. Soccer fans!

I am posting a day late because I was too tired last night.