Singapore

After we had collected our visas on Friday we decided to visit Sairozi’s aunt in Singapore. On Saturday we went to KL Sentral to buy our tickets. Two 2^nd class tickets for the 6 hours journey from KL Sentral to Woodlands ciq cost us 68 ringgit (34 each). We also bought the return tickets at KL Sentral because tickets bought in Singapore are more expensive than those bought in Malaysia (even though for the same train!!). It’s also more expensive to start your journey in Woodlands, Singapore (34 Singapore Dollars/ 88 ringgit/ 20 Euro) than in Johor Bahru, Malaysia (33 ringgit/ 8 Euro). That’s why we bought our return ticket from Johor Bharu to KL Sentral. We took the night train at 11pm and reached Singapore in the morning at around 6.30am. The train station in Singapore is located right next the border to Malaysia so we had to take a bus and the LRT to go into town which took around 40 minutes.

Sairozi’s aunt met us at the LRT station and took us to her employer’s house. We received a very warm welcome and they had already prepared some maps, public transportation tickets and even food (Sushi… yummy!) for us. Then we headed into town to see Marina Bay. However, it was a bit difficult to go around the city because the Formula 1 race was held in Singapore that evening so many roads had been closed. Luckily, we still managed to find our way thanks to the security staff that was everywhere around the F1 track. Singapore and Marina Bay left a very good impression. It was extremely modern, clean and everything was well-organized. In the evening we went back to meet Sairozi's aunt and have dinner together. She had prepared some delicious Chinese-Indonesian food for us. Unfortunately we only had one day to visit Singapore because the next day we already returned to Kuala Lumpur to catch our flight the following day.