The Final Days of Singapore

We got a lot of what we wanted to accomplish in Singapore over the weekend and with us working during the day, we kind of took it easy for the rest of our time in Singapore.

One of the last things I wanted to do was go to the "Long Bar" in the Raffles Hotel to get a Singapore Sling, supposedly the place where the Singapore Sling was invented. Well we arrived and from the start I was not impressed, the bar wasn't nearly as "neat" as most of the travel books set it out to be, and the Singapore Sling at the Long Bar was not good at all. This was a very disappointing adventure and my advice to anyone heading to Singapore, skip out on this excursion. The Raffles Hotel is a neat place, but the Long Bar is clearly a touristy trap, you can get a better Singapore Sling and be in a better bar in many other places.

We walked around after the Long Bar and the night was redeemed when we passed by the "largest fountain in the world," the Fountain of Wealth. Actually this thing was a pretty neat fountain (or at least neat as fountains can get) and had a show and some dance music playing with it, which made it all the more fun to sit and watch water being sprayed out of a tube.