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We had about a two hour flight from Bangkok to Singapore. We, my husband and I, travel a lot, and let me tell you, we’ve never seen a cleaner place than Singapore. It’s so organized and easy to travel too. There’s virtually no violent crime, everything’s spotless and very well designed. Yes, there’s a catch, there are plenty of illegal activities, but you just need to be aware of them, and you’ll be fine. It’s almost too sterile here, almost. The people make up for that! What a rich culture.

We checked into one of the top Singapore hotels before we wanted to do some sight seeing. Singapore is a very affluent small nation. We found there isn’t much in historical sights, most of the attractions here are manufactured, but wonderful! During the next few days we visited the Botanic Gardens, the Singapore Zoo, the ‘all the rave’ Night Safari and the absolutely stunning Jurong Bird Park. My husband and I are hard to impress, but we found all of these attractions to be well done and superb.

One place we visited was really unique and different, it’s the Haw Par Villa. A place with a vision of a man who invented Tiger Balm. He felt there wasn’t being enough done to educate the people of Singapore, so he began using is fortune to build a kind of a ‘morals’ outdoor theme park. It’s on his estate and made of concrete. It’s really weird, wacky and bizarre. Sometimes disturbing and very kitschy. He has a great collection of dioramas showing the perils of wrong behavior and showing rewards for the right behavior. In the center of all of this is a long artificial cave that is filled with figures depicting suffering, the ten levels of Hell and then there memories erased and there reborn to have another chance to get it right. We laughed a lot. It’s a must see if you come to Singapore.