Singapore Day 2

Up shortly after 8:00, I slept awesome.

We had breakfast and decided to head to Pulau Ubin, a backwater island 500 metres off the NE coast of Singapore.

We caught bus 2 to the Changi Ferry Terminal and there was hundreds of people in the queue to go to Ubin.  It's a holiday in Singapore, Tony (hostek owner) told us it would be busy.

We waited about 30 minutes before we finally got on a boat. It was a 15 minute boat ride to the island. Each boat only takes 12 people, so they had a loyt of boats working today.

On Pulau Ubin, we had lunch, then walked around the hike close to the pier, through sokme kind of jungly bits, along the mangrove forests. It's so hot and humid I'm sweating like crazy.

After walking, we drank beer and a storm rolled through. Thunder, but not much rain.

Ubin is more like other parts of SE Asia, not hi-tech or developed like Singapore.

Around 3:30, we caught the boat back to Singapore, back to our hostel and booked Baba Guest House for April 23, 24 and 25 on Penang.

We were trying to figure out how to book a hostel for tonigjht, as we arrive at midnight. Jen had sent an email to a guest house in Georgetown earlier in the day, but they replied and said they had no room.

We started talking to Tony, owner of Betel Box, and he did us a favour and called Hutton Lodge and was able to get us a room for about $10-12/night. Decent price.

Tony was super helpful and awesome.

Jen and I started talking about supper, and Tony suggested laksa and told us where to go to get the best laksa.

Around 7:30, got our backpacks and headed to the airport, via the MRT.

Arrived in Penang around midnight and caught a taxi to Hutton Lodge and went to bed.