i love singapore

You can spend a ton in one day... As the trip was a day in Singapore on the way to India, I had printed out a web summary of the attractions I wanted to see while there. Showing up around midnight at the Singapore Global Changi Air terminal was my idea of ​​a first class air terminal experience. Tired from a long journey of sixteen hours, I proceeded to the Diplomat Travel Accommodation inside the air terminal. Numerous air terminals around the world have lounges, day inns, and showers, but Singapore really does everything its best. Since it was 2:00 a.m. m., I really wanted a place to shower and rest for a couple of hours. The shower office is perfectly finished in Asian style, very simplified, current and charming with bamboo and flowers. A basic bed to rest on was great, quiet and private. What better method to start a day in Singapore: clean, refreshed and ready to visit the city.

I just checked my backpack for the day at the air terminal, grabbed my lightweight backpack that I like to use for traveling in and out of the city specially blossoms by the park and I was all set. Around 7:00 am I took the shuttle to downtown Singapore. As I looked through the huge clean windows, I saw pathways perfectly lined with mesmerizing palm trees and blue sky, two and three story tall structures with remarkable plants and varieties. The magnificence of Singapore was beginning to unfold before me. After an exceptionally concise twenty-minute drive downtown and a short walk, I arrived at my most memorable stop, the genuinely magnificent and popular Wagers Inn, now a public landmark. In the balmy tropical air and early morning daylight, this frontier-style building shone white. I stayed there taking it all in.

Wagers Lodging was the place in Singapore that I most needed to visit, for its amazing engineering and history. It is named after Singapore pioneer Sir Stamford Wagers. Just by being there, you can begin to detect the association with the past: great history, secrets, feelings, bygone eras, tales of war and political domination, of English noblemen in white coats smoking thin cigars, of summer nights and a drink seasoned called the Singapore slingshot.

Entering the grand foyer and lounge with covered steps paving the way to a higher level, I felt like I was stepping back in time. The lodging was visited by notable authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway and James Michener; VIPs like Jean Harlow and Elizabeth Taylor; sovereignty including sovereign Elizabeth II. Many have graced its grounds across the north for 100 years since it was built in 1899.

The inn was under Japanese occupation during the Second Great War and was even used as a travel camp for detainees towards the end of the conflict. In the 1990s, the lodge was redesigned and has changed owners a couple of times along the way, but it hasn't changed yet. The management is perfect and they escort me down the food hall to a morning food bar with amazing green leafy foods, many of which I am new to. There is an array of varieties of eastern and western food, cappuccino and teas, heavenly Indian hot plates, Asian delicacies and all served with magnificent royal help. The breakfast itself is something to see and the banquet hall is a wonderful place to eat, relax and read the morning paper. Seriously, the place was "stunning". I wandered the expansive grounds and visited the shops, fully taking in the entire experience. Assuming he hadn't done anything else in Singapore, this would have been enough.