Singapore Day 3

We met rather early in the morning at a subway station and went to a nearby Starbucks to drink our morning coffee. From there we walked to this park. We had been expecting something more peaceful with less traffic and noise but I guess it was a good enough place considering it was located right in downtown. There was a spice garden with common spices such as vanilla, ginger and mint growing there. We found even cola trees there! In general, there are lots of trees and plants everywhere around Singapore making the city look nicer and less crowded. Speaking of crowded, there are 4,5 million inhabitants living in an area that´s the size of Oulujärvi! (Statistically it´s 1600 people per square kilometre, in comparison to the same figure being 16 in Finland.)

At the park.

I just loved shopping in Singapore! There are tons of huge and posh malls at Orchard Street and even though we spent over 6 hours shopping we only managed to go 3 malls altogether. The prices were so low I was just amazed! It was the hardest thing to decide what to buy among so much selection. We also went to a beauty shop to rest for a few minutes while they treated us with manicures and pedicures. For lunch we had noodles at a food court (an area of several food places) and we also got this juice that was self-made of fresh fruit.

After we got tired of shopping we went to Little India. It wasn´t as exciting as Chinatown but it was nice walking around there. First we thought there was some kind of event going on there because there were tons of men hanging around at the streets but then we came to the conclusion it must have been just their regular way of spending a Sunday night. We went to drink lassi (a fruit drink) to a local bar and were treated as some special guests.
As a conclusion, it was interesting seeing all the different parts of Singapore; Chinatown with all the decorations, food and Chinese people, the City Centre of the posh malls and then Little India that was the poorest (and dirtiest) area. I liked Singapore and could actually consider workingthere at some point if I got a good job offer.

This (too dark) picture from Little India shows that even though it´s illegal to throw trash to the streets in Singapore they possibly can´t arrest everyone doing it.