Night Safari and Sentosa Island

Friday 26th October

With our very last bit of money we bought an international phone card and managed to call my bank to sort the problem out. They gave me access to my card just before the money ran out! We were so desperate because my debit card was our only way of accessing money after the mugging. We didn't even have enough money to pay the call connection fee in the hotel we called from, but the staff let us off!
Once we had sorted the problem, we decided to celebrate by buying a drink. So we went into a traditional Chinese health cafe and tried some plum juice, just for something different. But it was disgusting!

In the evening we went to a night safari. There was a Halloween theme. It was actually quite scary. There were actors spotted around the safari park, who jumped out of the bushes and crept up on us as we went through the dark in an open, slow train. It made us quite jumpy! We saw quite a few animals including elephants, giraffes, rhinos and leopards. The animals' environments were set up so that they were similar to their natural habitats, although the areas were very small and the leopards were behind glass, so it wasn't all that natural.

Saturday 27th October

We went to China town in the morning. There was not that much to see or do really - mainly just shops and markets. Then we went for a very brief visit to Sentosa Island which has artificial beaches. We caught the clean and efficient metro service to the coast and then a cable car over to the island. It was a strange, abstracted place. We wondered around and then got the cable car back again! All the activities on the island were really expensive and we were short of time because we had to catch a flight to Melbourne that day. So it was a bit of a bitty day all-in-all. But I think we got a feel for Singapore.
We caught our flight to Melbourne in the evening.