After postponing it once, this Sunday was reserved for touring Sentosa island [ http://www.sentosa.com.sg]. Rishi has given me a time of 9:30 to start the day for Sentosa. However, we both were late while leaving our respective places and reached Harbourfront station by 11:15 AM. You can board a bus or monorail from Harbourfront station for the Sentosa island. You also have a choice of landing at Sentosa via a cable car. The cable car passes very close by the Star Cruise liner and you can get a closer glimpse of it in case you think getting that otherwise would be a bit too costlier. We decided to take the monorail and bought our Sentosa entry cards from the ticket counter which included the monorail journey as well. The moment we three [myself, Rishi and his wife] entered the access gates to board the train, Rishi's wife realized that she left her wallet in the washroom. A panic button was pressed as it had few bank cards as well. We went running back to place but it could not be traced. Finally, respective Banks were called and cards were cancelled - and we made our second attempt to board the train.Ooops -- our entry card did not work this time as they were meant to be used just once. We could clearly see our few dollars having gone wasted when we decided to try our luck and explained the entire situation to a lady attendant who very kindly let us in.
We got off the train at Merlion. This was our first stop. We saw the Merlion closely and took some snaps. I guess people will not believe you that you have visited Singapore if you do not have a snap with Merlion. Now I have the proof of having been to Singapore :). From Merlion, we kept walking along the walk until we reached in from of the Beach station of the monorail. Clicked few snaps there and realized that it was too sunny and we were already hungry. We made our way to Impiah where you find few eating joints such as Subway, Pizzeria etc. We ordered Pizza for ourselves as that was the only vegetarian thing we could locate. After having our pizza and gulping the coke along with it, I was advised to take the LUGE. Its basically a bicycle like low-lying vehicle with three wheels. In other words, if you take an Indian Auto Rickshaw, make its base touch the ground and reduce its size so that only one person can be seated in it, you have made a LUGE. After getting a go ahead from your instructor, all your Luge does it to rush down on a nicely built up cement track. The only thing you need to do is manage the handle to keep your luge on the correct path. It was fun and kind of a new experience. After reaching at the end of the track, you are guided towards a cable way fitted with benches. You then are made to seat on the bench and cable takes you to the original place where you started from. This cable way provides you some good view from an altitude. Unfortunately, I had not taken my camera thinking it would be a risk while driving the luge.
After the Luge expedition, we boarded the bus for Underwater sea world. Again Rishi and his wife decided to wait outside as they already had seen this many times. It was quite costly ticket and a major disappointment as well. I could not find anything very amusing there. It was certainly overpriced. Anyways, we took the bus again for the Dolphin's Lagoon where I went inside, again leaving Rishi to wait for me outside, to witness much hyped Dolphin show. The show was ok types - nothing of sort that you will regret for ever in case you missed it.
Then we headed towards the Palawan beach. It was very small beach with people spread all over. Seemed to be a typical place where you get your food from home along with your family and just chill out. Interestingly enough, it was the southern-most point of Asia continent. We head our second round food here. Clicked few snaps and chilled out for sometime. By this time we were quite tired and we planned to head back and do some roaming around in the Harbourfront and Vivo City malls. I wanted to go far much talked-about Night Safari as well but then there was no way we could wait there until 7:00 for it to start. We took the monorail back and after roaming for around 30 minutes in the two malls, I bid bye to Rishi and his wife and headed for the hotel. Overall, it was a day well spent though in summary, I found Sentosa not having met the expectations. May be my expectations were a bit too high after having heard so much about it from people.
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