Day 129
It's our last day in Singapore, oh how the time flies. We still have one more thing we want to check out in this lovely city, it's Botanical Gardens.
It's MRT is only a few short stops from ours and when we get out we we greeted by a very luscious park. We begin in the fruit tree section, then the nut trees before Ben sees a sign which gets him pretty excited, there's wild monitor lizards in the park! Unsurprisingly at this point we head off straight away to find them. The sign said to head towards the lakes and we are very close to Symphony Lake when we hear a rustling in the bank and are so chuffed to see a baby monitor stretching about in the leaves! He was about 2 foot long with really cool markings. We watch him for a bit as he searches for food and I have to explain to Ben that we can't fit him in our rucksacks.
We carry on towards the lake when I spot something large swimming in the water, thinking it might be another dragon, we go and investigate but it turns out its full of turtles! We manage to get a video of them all squashing each other and watch them for ages before walking around the rest of the lake. We can't believe our luck when we spot another, much bigger monitor! More pictures taken, we do a bit of statue spotting before heading to the ginger garden and getting educated on what it looks like when it grows. The past few days have been very flower orientated and Ben's got really into taking some amazing snaps, I think a new hobby might be emerging.
We wander through the park till we reach the other end and get the MRT back to the flat where Pete and Ali and their two boys pick us up for some food. We all squeeze into their car and head off to the Gardens By The Bay hawker place and get some yummy food including Sting Ray (quite nice). Pete and Ali are so lovely and it's nice to have a bit of human contact other than each other for a while. We spend the night chatting away till they drop us off and we back for Bali tomorrow!
Day 130
Once we've cleaned up the flat and eaten the rest of the supplies, we grab a taxi to the airport where I fill a whole with a Subway sandwich before we head back to the Social Media Tree for another picture.
We are only here for a couple of hours which is weirdly short wait for is. We get a little too into the airport again and only leave ourselves a few minutes to get to our gate. We rush their only to find out our flight is delayed and we haven't missed anything, phew. We watch a weird US chat show about food to fill the time before we board but it goes so quickly and before we know it we've landed in the very sunny Bali! The airport looks really cool with temple style buildings out the front and flowers everywhere, I think I'm going to like Indonesia. Our hotel is our jammiest deal (or to quote Phil, more Jam that Hartley) yet, a £140 a night room for £17 and the place is lovely. We check in, slurping out complimentary smoothie before going up to our light and airy room. The place is made all the better as it has a pool and we strip down straight away and jump in. We need to recoup some cash over the next few days so it's going to be 4 days of lounging and blogging, it's a hard life but someone has to do it.
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