Singapore

So I officially left Jakarta on Friday and headed to Singapore for the weekend. It is a good city to stop off at on the way to somewhere else but I probably wouldn't recommend staying a weekend. Singapore is actually the shining star of South East Asia or the "Country Club" of the South Pacific as some call it. It is a very nice city, very clean, orderly, clean air, organized cabs, safe, you can eat anything without worrying about getting sick. So on a whole it's a pretty good get away from Indonesia if you need a break and want some fresh air. However, there really isn't much to do in Singapore...it rained both days i was there on and off which was actually fine b/c it cooled it down a bit. It was very very very hot and humid while i was there (think Jersey shore plus another 50% humidity). I did managed to check out the botanical gardens and Sentosa Island.

I was expecting a bit more out of Sentosa being that its an island and everyone told me to go there b/c they had a nice beach you could lay out on and relax. Well that isn't exactly the case, it is more of a Disneyland on the water...it had kind of man made feel to it and lots of touristy things going on. Not what I would think of in terms of a relaxing day by the beach.
Anyway as a whole Singapore is nice but unless you need to pass through there I would probably pass on it.