It's been a surreal 48 hours. We flew from Singapore to Bangkok and then hopped on a 10 hour flight to Helsinki where we're spending a 24 hour layover before continuing onto our final destination.
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Singapore wraps up the Asia part of our trip and we've had a lot of fun here admiring the modern architecture and the beautiful gardens and green spaces. It is a very comfortable city to travel in and a good transition city between Asia and our next stop, which is Europe.
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Sentosa Island is an island built of attractions. It's like someone said, here's some land, go put as many entertaining things on it as possible.
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...these are a few things you'll find at the Singapore Zoo.
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We took a break from the cement and exhaust of the big city and headed out to do something a little greener. The Singapore Botanic Gardens contains several themed gardens including a Healing Garden (displays plants used in traditional medicine in South East Asia), a Fragrant Garden (where jasmine and ylang ylang are still in bloom), a little bonsai garden, and more. The highlight is the Orchid Garden which takes you on a beautiful stroll through 1,000 species and over 2,000 different hybrids of orchids.
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Singapore doesn't shy away from gathering food inspiration from other areas, both east and west. We had a great time experimenting at the cheap local hawker's centers as well as splurging for a few special treats.
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Welcome to the most beautiful oven in the world. Yes, that's right. Oven. Between the mid-day sun, light-reflecting water, and foot-burning sand, it was a fun but toasty tour around the Phi Phi islands (named after a flower that no longer exists). A quick note about speedboats...if they hand out sick bags and motion sickness pills free of charge, it's not just for show, it means it's going to be a really really bumpy ride.
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We encountered a bit of Bangkok burnout while we were here, so we slowed down the pace a bit, and took to wandering rather than sight hopping. We hit a few more shopping malls than we'd like to admit and tried to find the cheapest places for fresh mango smoothies.
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Thai food definitely has its own unique flavors and we were lucky enough to hit a local festival and sample some things not on the restaurant menus.
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We arrived here just in time to take advantage of a free guided tour that showed us the highlights of Wat Phra Kaew, including the Emerald Buddha. There is an amazing amount of gold, glass, and glitter at this place. There is also an amazing amount of tourists milling about. The only way to get a photo that doesn't contain a clump of random people is to either do roof line shots or close ups. Fortunately, this is the perfect place to take those types of pictures.
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Temples abound here in Bangkok, but this one has a few extra things that make it worthy of its own post: A Thai massage school where we got a wonderful mind-numbing traditional Thai massage for $9. Slightly fewer tourists (few enough not to get shoved around by crazed selfie-taking fiends). Free bottled water. And cats..
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We weren't quite sure what to expect of Cambodian food, but it turned out to be a fantastic experience trying out their local dishes.
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