By the numbers
No Monkeys
12.42 kms
16,162 steps
The day started early enough as I wanted us to be down at Sentosa island before we ran out of time to meet up with friends at the mega shopping centre of Vivocity for lunch, which would be awesome. At the time I was wanting to take the train the long way round on the circle line from Bischan to Harbourfront station on the MRT, but it was kind of lucky I instead went the other way to the downtown line via Dohby Ghaut. We seemed to have left at the wrong time of the morning as it was like the morning commute became really crowded even when we went through the rush at Dohby to change trains. We had to stand, but everyone got off at Harbourfront. We could have caught the monorail into Sentosa from Vivocity, but I thought it would be more fun to get the cable car over there even if we had to catch two since both went in different directions.
We were wondering where it was at first and followed the signs. We had to hit the lift button in one of the buildings so we could take a ride up to whatever floor the cable car was. The theme for the car was Hello Kitty due to it being 50 years. We had two directions we could have taken and that was either up to the mountain or onto the island. We would have to go over the Universal studios resort on out way past and see the ships off the coast. At the same time you could see the roped off areas from the recent oil spill and several small vessels hanging around. Once we got off, we had to walk over to the next cable car that went to Siloso beach. There was a reason why we ended up here as we were visiting the most preserved fortification in Singapore. The Fortress was Fort Siloso, part of the fall of Singapore in World War 2. We could walk around the area on several different paths. The first one we would take was the skywalk and that would give us a great view of the area with information panels about various landmarks in the area like the islands and even the offshore waste facility. That I didn’t know they had. It did seem pretty quest even though it was nearing 10am. The stories spoke of the beginning of fort Siloso and how there were other fortifications on Singapore. Also the myth they were positioned wrong, which the truth was more interesting. They had the wrong ammunition for land based battles as they were used primarily for naval attacks. The story went on about the fall of Singapore where the guns were either destroyed or pushed off the cliff, the people’s experiences of the war especially from the POW perspective as some were on Sentosa at the time and the aftermath of the war when Singapore ended up with its independence. You could walk around most of the area and others were getting some maintenance done to them. It was well worth the visit so I was happy for that.
After we walked out of the Fort area that was next door to an upmarket luxuary resort, we had photos taken at the sign for Siloso, although very few people were on the beach even though you were not allowed to swim. We did notice by this time of day nearing lunch time that there were plenty of people arriving for the touristy parts of the area. It was also getting to become the hottest part of the day and we were heading off the island. Before we left, we did part of the Imbiah walking trail right next to the skyrail. We still didn’t see any monkeys as there could have been some at the fort. I think it was lucky we had taken the skyrail as we saved alot of walking. We caught the gondolas back to the other side, where we went into what we thought was Vivocity. I looked at the map and found we were at a smaller shopping centre next door called Harbourside. We decided to walk next door and then went up to the Sentosa express monorail was located as we were meeting up with Dawn for lunch nearby. It was actually good to sit for a little bit and then we were off to have lunch in a robot restaurant. Though first we ended up getting our glasses washed.
Lunch was at a Japanese robot restaurant where robots delivered your food to the table and you ordered through their website on your phone. It was pretty different and the food did arrive and stopped next to you so that you could take it out. Dawn’s sister arrived and we were chatting over the food and not long after we were going to visit a dog friendly pet shop. I had a quick look at the local library and you could only really enter with a library card. The petshop had plenty of pet products inside, even more than I had seen before, although I don’t usually visit petshops. We all parted ways to have a wander and I did find some shops that were interesting including a blind box where you could end up with one of half a dozen figurines, but you don’t know which. As time went on, Dawn also had to leave. Though we both wandered on a random path towards the MRT station, we soon found the two shopping centres Vivocity and Harbourside were connected. I somehow ended up with new socks from a sock shop as I thought the deals were really good. This time the ride home on the MRT took us the long way round on the circle line where we changed at Bishan. Then we ended up at the home station of Novena where we walked back to the hotel. Turns out a bus load were waiting to checkin and the lobby area was getting rather crowded.
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