An exit stamp later, and we were out. Entering Malaysia was similarly easy: no questions were asked and we were given a three-month permit on the spot. The only creepy factor was the huge posters everywhere that read “death by hanging for drug traffickers”.
Browsing Category Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand 2010-2011
A Foodie’s Day in S’pore
I’m lucky to have a strong stomach and a taste for street food. I’m not a huge fan of “weird” meat (i.e. intestines and the like) but I can eat pretty much anything else. You can’t really apply Western health standards to Asian street food but I’m perfectly fine with that. Who wants to live in a tasteless sanitized world, anyway?
A Secret Affair in Singapore
At 11 p.m., we suddenly realized we’d better print the Kuala Lumpur hotel booking confirmation we had just made online. Obviously, we don’t carry a printer with us (although I sometimes wish we did) so we had to find an Internet café.
Singapore’s Chinatown
And this is where my perception of Singapore suddenly changed. Just a couple of blocks from all the main Western financial institutions, we stepped into another world.
Bye Australia, Hello Singapore
Asia has such a unique atmosphere that best way to adapt is to embrace the crowd, the smell and dive into the chaos without looking back.
We landed in Singapore under pouring rain, after a whole day of traveling and two crazy last days in Sydney.
10 Stuff We Learned in Australia
We bused about 3,000 kilometers along the East Coast, from tropical Queensland to New South Wales. We drove another 1,000 kilometers South of Sydney and out of the beaten tracks. We walked on dozens of beaches, escaped the floods by a couple of days, spent New Year Eve in Sydney and Christmas at the beach.
And of course, we learned a few things along the way.