Christmas in Singapore

About a week before the holidays we decided to go to Singapore for Christmas and New Year. Because Singapore is one of the most expensive countries in Southeast Asia and since we wanted to meet some new people, I decided to try couchsurfing. This is a website where people from all over the world offer their couch or a spare mattress to travelers. After sending about 40 messages to people in Singapore, we were lucky that Sven (from Norway, but living in Singapore) offered his couch for the first couple of days of our stay.

We arrived there at the 23rd in the late evening and apart from sleeping we didn't do much. But the next day we prepared for the Christmas party that took place in the evening. I cooked a curry while Sairozi and Sven made 2 different kinds of cookies and a cake. It turned out super-delicious and I ate way too much during the party.



The next day some couchsurfers had organised a tour through the city. At the moment there is a campaign to protect elephants in Singapore and you can find elephant figures all around the city. The aim of our tour was to see as many different elephants as possible. Here you can see my favourites: