From the airport in Krabi we bade farewell to Thailand and journeyed southern on to Singapore, the glittering city at the end of the Malay peninsula, and one of the only first-world level stops on our trip.  We got in late night and hopped a cab into Little India, where we haggled with our hotel deskman over the rooms.  Asian hotels have a bad habit of dressing up their websites.  Regardless, we handled the situation and settled in for a deserved rest.

Our first day in full we hopped onto the metro system and went into the city center, heading for an aquarium but we got sidetracked in one of the malls that the station exits funnel you into and watched “No Country for Old Men” on the big screen for a bargain.  For a well-developed country, Singapore is happily affordable.  After that we hopped onto the monorail system and flew above the bay over to Sentosa Island.

Sentosa is awash with tourists from all over the place but thankfully it was getting later on in the day and we came upon the aquarium, where we had the place nearly to ourselves.  On offer were opportunities to feed sting rays, though the food was out so we just teased them our palms as they snapped at nothing.  Later on we walked through a large acrylic tube surrounded by water while varieties of fish and shark swam over and around us, which was pretty cool.  They also have a sleepy dugong who seemed a bit irked with my efforts to bother it.  Nevertheless, it made for a fun day.

Our last day we stayed around our neighborhood in Little India and walked around a bit exploring while continuing our Indian food extravaganza, which was both delicious and satisfying.  My flight out was in the early evening, Kathleen’s around midnight.  Given the short amount of time and general tiredness of mine, I kept my camera in the room so regrettably don’t have many pictures.  Singapore is largely a modern city and comfortable, felt it to be like a Hong Kong-light.   It was also a fitting capstone to a great month of being on the road and seeing some truly amazing places.