Singapore Night Tour

While were on our recent vacation trip, two of the men from the church in Singapore offered to give my wife and I a night tour of the city. We accepted their offer.

They came by at seven to pick us up in John's car and we proceeded downtown. Our first stop was at the recently opened Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum. The temple is a magnificent structure that takes up an entire block in the very busy part of the city. It is five stories high, with the shrine to the Buddha tooth on the fourth floor and a beautiful garden on the fifth floor. There is quite a bit of debate in the city as to whether the tooth really belonged to Buddha, but there is no doubt that the temple is a sight to see.

Next we went to Mount Faber, the second highest hill on the island. At the peak there is a very nice park and garden that allows observation of the resort island of Sentosa, the downtown district, and one of the housing estates near downtown. It was a rather romantic spot, and we saw lots of young couples there among the gardens.

Next stop was at Clarke Quay near the waterfront, which has been developed recently into the district of restaurants and shops and entertainment. It was really hopping the night we were there. One of the attractions that I tried to get my wife to ride was the reverse bungee, but I had no luck. It looked like an amazing ride.

We then drove out to the east end of the island where there was another district of nightlife. This one was right along a beach, and again we found a lot of young couples walking and sitting on the beach overlooking the strait that separates Singapore from Malaysia. It was amazingly quiet in that area.

Somehow our guides got turned around as they were trying to take us to a country club not too far from the beach area. We drove around for 20 or 30 minutes, but never did see that site.

The next stop was back toward the north and the Sembawang district. We went to see the temple of the God of wealth. It too took up a full city block and was very ornate. But it was not as impressive as the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.

By this time it was after 1:30 in the morning. I told our hosts that we were ready to go and visit the temple of the is one of rest. So they took us home, but it was a very nice evening.

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