Singapore Walkathon...

Monday January 27. Warm, then torrents late afternoon.

As we all have been here a few times before, we decided to forget about tours and just go to Chinatown, have lunch by the river then walk to the lovely gardens that we enjoyed so much before a few years ago.

Guess what, we did all that. We took the super clean, super efficient, super cheap subway to Chinatown. China town has changed somewhat in that it is cleaner than before. This city is amongst the most modern, clean, architecturally beautiful cites in the world. Litter does not seem exist.

The subway cars are spotless, although the passengers are as diverse as you would expect here. There are muslims, some whites but a variety of brown skinned people ranging in colour from light, light chocolate to 85% dark chocolate. I hope you do not mind my comparisons but I don't know how else to describe the people otherwise. Everybody seems to speak some English.

We sat down a few times to catch our breath, ending up in the gardens which was our intended final spot for the day. It then began to sprinkle, then a bit heavier then, later, torrents. By then we had decided to call it a day and were back in the ship's terminal where we indulged in a hamburger before getting aboard and cleaned up and then, early to bed. About 16,000 steps today according to Jim and Gail. A good sleep tonight I think.

Early AM.

On the subway to Chinatown.

Now this is a clean subway car...

Outside in Chinatown.

Street scene.

Everything looks like it was just painted.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Gatewy to Chinatown.

Lunch by the river.

Hotel area by the river.

These bronze naked boys are to memorialize the youngsters that lived in this area about 150 years ago who did just that, jumped off the banks and swam in the Singapore river.

The Merlion, symbol of Singapore at Merlion Park.

The group rested near the Merlion, our destination is at the foot of that giant hotel with a top that looks like a ship on it.

It started to sprinkle about now, the time was 3:30. We had been on the go since 9:30 so we were about ready to call it quits, [me at least] so it gave us a chance to call it a day with dignity.

Our destination was these giant columns of concrete, covered in tubing, then live vines and plants growing on the metal frame.

The last picture of the day for us. Do we look a little tired?