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Argh. Another cloudy Saturday! But better than a rainy one… So I got myself ready for this weekend’s highlight: Getting to the famous Singapore Zoo. So I took MRT – a long ride from Boon Lay… First East-West-Line to Jurong East, then the North-South-Line up to Ang Mo Kio, which takes about 1 hour. To get to the Zoo, I jumped onto a 138 bus. When I arrived at Ang Mo Kio, a thunderstorm started, but when I reached Zoo it was already over – but cloudy conditions and high humidity stayed all day. So the photos are not that colorful, because of the diffuse light situation…
Admission to the Zoo is quite expensive, but your 15 s$ are well invested money – You get a view of the most stunning Zoo I’ve ever seen! It is just more interesting to watch monkeys jumping around, when the surrounding vegetation is tropical. You get a nice view of a huge number of tropical animals in their natural habitat. I especially liked the rainforest hall, where countless butterflies and other animal where around. It was also nice to see white tigers and the working elephant’s show, where local mahouts show the working performance of huge asian elephants.

One thing at the Zoo made me really smiling… Everywhere around the Zoo, there were so called: “Air-con shelters” – Little pavilions with air conditioning, where sweating tourists can get some rest from the tropical temperatures. One thing at the Zoo really made me mad: Charging 2s$ for a 0.5l of water is just not fair… But some friends told me, so I was prepared – Har!

Afterwards I met with some of my Singaporian hall-mates in order to have some nice food at the Salita Area. So Nick & Danny took me to some very nice restaurant, where we had a splurge menu of superb Hainanese specialties, such as the (in Singapore omni-present) Chicken Rice. After that we went to a nearby Hawker Centre for dessert. We enjoyed Ice Kachang and some other stuff.

Update: Many people keep me asking for more photos… So I put some more pics at flickr. So here is why my private gallery has still no pics: Uploading takes virtually forever – I get only some 4kb/s since this Taiwan Earthquake slowed down the net. So be patient. There will be a huge load of pics after I’m back – and probably also a presentation.