When you travel to a time zone that’s 14 hours ahead of your home time zone, you will, most likely, suffer some jet lag symptoms.
For our trip to Singapore in late December, we were wide awake at 4:30 am. We’d try to go back to sleep, and then start dreaming about breakfast.
The best thing about waking up early is to take a walk soon after the sun comes up.
In Singapore, within walking distance from the Conrad Centennial Singapore hotel, there are some terrific early morning views.
Singapore is a surreal city. Known as “Asia for beginners,” it’s modern, clean and safe to walk around alone.
The city is full of gleaming high rises, each seeming to try to out-do the others with architectural magnificence.
A cruise ship in the sky?
A building shaped like a lotus flower?
A war monument nicknamed “the chopsticks?”
Singapore will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year in 2015, and the city/state is a modern-day success story.
After all of that morning walking, we found ourselves ready for another Singapore highlight: the food.
We headed to Din Tai Fung for our favorite soup dumplings. Yum!
Have you been to Singapore? What did you enjoy most in the city? Please share in comments below.
If you are planning a trip to Singapore, check out these posts for some activities you might enjoy:
- Eating Our Way Through Chinatown with Food Tour Singapore
- Touring the Tiger Brewery in Singapore
- A Little Walk Through Little India with The Original Singapore Walks
- White Tigers at the Singapore Zoo
- Elephant Feeding Time at the Singapore Zoo
- Anthony Bourdain Knows What He’s Talking About: Unbelievably Good Food at the Singapore Grand Hyatt Hotel
- Destination Discovery: Marina Bay Sands Sky Park, Singapore
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