After leaving GF in Phuket for the final time on this trip, I arrived in Singapore where I had booked myself a boutique hotel to end the trip nicely. Singapore was as I'd expected and read about - squeaky clean, very modern, as hygienic as say, Japan, but with a more interesting mix of ethnicities and history. Being located in Chinatown, I got to enjoy some really good hawker stall food, and walked around town and took the MRT around to go shopping. I met up with RL, an old dive buddy from Layang-Layang in 2004, and we caught up the last 3 years on some sushi off Orchard Road. It is always one of life's pleasures to catch up with a friend and realize that not much had changed since we'd left off. The dive-the-world club is ever expanding as RL and I must now go to the Philippines and Indonesia in the future to find some mola-mola and thresher sharks.
The following morning was spent at the Asian Civilisations Museum, which was very interesting. Then I walked about for a bit, and took the plane home - well not quite home yet, as I will be in Toronto to visit a 2 month old baby for a few days before I head home back to reality.
Kampong Glam, the Muslim quarter
Shark fin shop, which is deplorable. The size of the fin makes me guess it must have been a tiger, a great white or even a whale shark.
Downtown modern Singapore with some leftover stalls on the Singapore River
Les Québécois francophones comprendront pourquoi j'ai trouvé ceci divertissant:
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