Hail Me a Cab...in Singapore!

No not me, but my sweetest friend Jam. I sure had nearly two months of blog inactivity for one reason or another. And now I’m here to stop the hibernation and share to you one great experience about traveling ---getting lost!

Photo by Asia Web Direct

A couple of travelers would want to put up a timely itinerary. Setting up good names of well-known spots to visit, booking for hotel accommodations and sometimes, hiring a tour guide. To these travelers, it’s always safe to have a map safely kept inside their pockets. But the world is full of opposites and that being said, there are also travelers who would want to take a journey by surprise.

Keeping a little more than enough amount of money, food, camera and they’re all ready to experience what is yet to discover. My friend unfortunately has been around the best of both worlds--- a carefully prepared sojourn…and a wreak havoc travel experience.

Touring Singapore

Jam had to take a late afternoon flight bound for Singapore around middle of September this year. Traveling is not very much of a routine for someone who works with an unstable schedule. So when an opportunity strikes, tote bags are ready for set up for a nurse like him.

He flew in via Cebu Pacific airlines and was fetched by his sister. The first few days had to be spent looking around some of the scenic places of Singapore that includes (and more):

Jurong Bird Park

The bird park is the world’s largest walk-in aviary that stores hundreds of species of birds. While taking a walk and sitting on a bench, Jam had to curiously get high on the birds dozing on top of the branches or hoaxing the feet of passers-by. 

Esplanade

          

Singapore’s latest landmark that is located in prime Marina Bay. By this time he had a short stint of nationalism by sharing that the Esplanade theatre is thought to be inspired from a Filipino design (the shape of a Durian). 

Universal Studios

           

Just so he landed in one of the most visited places in Singapore he was able to  “time travel” the :

Ancient Egypt

Lost World

Sci Fi City

(Note: These are only few of the pictures)

Unpredictable Misadventures

This is it!

A travel wouldn’t be complete without bringing home some keepsakes or getting a chance to roam around the city. And by roaming around, sometimes, there has to be an extent of readiness for fun which by fun I mean the unexpected little misadventures.

Before he finished his vacation he toured around the Singapore metro and took a ride on a cab. He was ready for superlatives of contingencies except for one; confidently riding on a cab and suddenly realized that cabs in Singapore are right-hand drives and that he was dumbfound-ly seated in the driver’s seat. Laughs dropped as well as an easy sense of humor. That surely was a lesson learned!

Goodness knows he needed every one of Singapore’s fun on that experience and he got it, even from a cab.

Postscript: Singapore travel tips post to come soon!Hope you enjoyed this one.

Photo Credits (First and last photo):

asiawebdirect.com

google (dot) com (slash) images

Reference:

Benjamin Yap with text by Vanessa Wan, Singapore A-Z, A Pictorial Overview, Marshall Cavendish Editions