We woke early, and left the hotel to venture from the Little India district we are staying in.

We hopped on the very efficient Metro system and got off in the centre of Singapore. We then walked for a while in the hot, humid sun towards Raffles.

Once we arrived at Raffles, we had a nose around the shops and then headed to the Marina. On the way I noticed that they are putting all these lights up on the streets. It took me a while to realise that they are putting up all these lights for the Singapore F1 GP…. so we were walking along the track…. NICE!

Arriving at the marina, we were bombarded with concert noise and thousands of service people from Navy to Police etc. They were doing a sound check for some big celebration tomorrow. We walked past this mayhem, and chilled out by the marina for a while.

We then returned to the hotel as we only had a couple of hours before being collected for our “Night Safari”.

We were collected, and I already started to feel that this was not my thing… it turned out I was right. This zoo claims a strong conservation message, and says that they are keeping the animals in a natural enviroment. Jen and I thought a diesel engine tram packed with tourists and a guide that blares out from the speakers was not the most the most natural setting for these animals. Let alone the barbed wire and electric fence cleverly disguised behind flora and fauna.

We both agreed that we could not see any plus points. I bought a Chang beer and it cost $12 ?!? On Koh Tao that would have been a tenth of the price!

The one thing we did find appealling was a Spa business in the “Night Safari” where you paid $10 for a 5 minute foot exfoliation by fish! Check it out…

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Hey Guys…

Well we left the city of Cairns setting me back another $1600 in excess baggage charges, which was inevitable this far into our journey…. can’t wait to deal with BA.

The plane stopped in Darwin for a refuel, and Jen and I had a couple of last aussie beers. We then left for a further 4ish hours flight to Singapore.

We landed and were transferred to our hotel called Park Royal. Its very plush. Haven’t had a proper bed to sleep in for 2 months! The photo above was taken from our bedroom window.

We ventured out to find a cash machine. It was hectic. People, cars and so much noise…. very reminiscent of Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur.

The food, typically Asian, consisted of such dishes as Intestines on a plate, or Turtle Soup which made my appetite seem to dissapear!. It took a while to get some cash out, and then we went a grabbed some beers and people watched before retiring.

So…. Skydiving was bloody cancelled! Damm rain came in on the last day… hey ho…. nevermind!

Instead of some fantastic footage of jumping out of a plane at 14,000ft (grumble grumble) I shall show you the toll this trip has taken on some of our equipment.

These 2 photos show the obvious damage to the screen of the little HD cam… Brand new when we left the UK… you can thank those lovely airlines for that.

And these 2 photos show the 6 inch crack in Jens underwater camera housing that must have been stamped on by an elephant seeing as this housing can withstand pressure down to over 90m underwater (10 x pressure on land).

Hopefully, our insurance will cover it, and I should be thankful (fingers crossed cos trip is not over!) that the big boy camera and the housing have remained intact.

Anyway guys, we leave Cairns tomorrow morning, and arrive in Singapore about 17 hours later I think. From there it will be 3 days of more blogging before we get on a plane to the UK.

Anyone fancy picking us up from the airport at 5am on the 14th 😉