Our driver for our tour pick up was early today and he nearly caught us out.Today was only the second time on the whole holiday that we had encountered rain but it was still warm so it didn't matter.Before we left we had to fill in immigration forms as we were crossing the border to Malaysia today.After a drive of around 45 min we were at the border crossing which is basically two immigration centres separted by a bridge that crosses the straights of Johor. Once ...

It was another early morning pickup for our Island tour but we needed it as we were going to do a circuit of the whole island of Singapore today.We started out by driving to the Haw Par Villa which used to be the tiger balm gardens has been created by the family that invented Tiger Balm.It has some very kitchy statues.Next we went past Kranji Dam, in Singapore's north-west, this was the first landing spot for the Japanese advance boats. Here we also had a clear v...

We had an 8:00 am pick up today for our Zoo breakfast.Martin and Amanda met us on the tour bus as they had booked the same tour as us.When we arrived at the Zoo we immediately had breakfast and got up close to the wildlife.It was great fun seeing the Orangutans so close.After breakfast we caught the tram around the zoo and started looking at the animals.The zoo is one of the best I have been to; the animals seemed to have a lot of freedom yet are close to the peo...

They flight wasn't too bad and I did get some sleep.We landed around 6 am and cleared customs and immigration really quickly we must have been the first plane to arrive as there was no-one there.We also must have looked really innocent as the man just pushed us through the glass doors at Customs without any scanning or any questions.We caught a taxi to the hotel which was cheap and really quick and our luck continued as even though it was only 7am we were able to...