I got off the bus al like midnight right at the northern end of the island on the Malaysian side. Instead of getting a bus to the center like I could have I opted to ride my bike. The bike ride was cool because Singapore had the infrastructure of a first world country and I didn't have to share the road with any cars. I rode on a highway that was in really good shape and remember passing under a lot of freshly painted pedestrian bridges with perfectly manicured vines growing on them. I was riding for like two hours though all over the place criss crossing myself because I kept following arrows that said I was going to Singapore, but I just couldn't find the skyscrapers. I finally gave up and stopped at an oceanside outdoor bar where there were a lot of foreigners around and got a four dollar Margarita and a plate of some good food. I had someone point me in the right direction and found the skyscrapers and went into the trees in a park to camp and found a mattress to sleep on.

I got up pretty early the next day and rode into the Indian section which is were the cheap hotels are. I got a room for eight bucks a night with my own TV. It was cool to watch TV there because all the channels were in English because English is their national language.

That day I walked around the place and noticed how cosmopolitan the place is. There were tons of Indians dressed in traditional Indian garb, and a lot of Chinese looking people. I had a nice Indian meal in one of their restaurants, and then took a bus around the island to check it out. I noticed that the whole island was inhabited with city. But I don't remember many actual houses, most of the residences were apartments. Then I went and did a tour of the island to the south of the main island where the Dutch had their base and saw all the canons and forts. I also did a train tour to see the various wildlife there. I shared the gondola on the way to the island with a kid from Denver Colorado. The Gondola went right over the Singapore harbor which is the biggest in the world.