Sentosa Island

Sentosa Island from the Cable Car

Sentosa Island is a small island that lies about a quarter mile off the south coast of the main island of Singapore.  It is a popular resort island with many hotel resorts located here as well as Universal Studios and other attractions. If you didn't look close you would actually think that it was part of the main island.  You can reach Sentosa by bus, car, monorail or cable car.  Terry and I decided to take the cable car as you get amazing views from there.

Just leaving on the Cable Car

View over Harbourfront Centre - this is the building where I am working - I don't have a view!

This is the cruise ship terminal as well as a ferry landing for ferries to Indonesia

Looking out over the port of Singapore - the busiest in the world apparently - and I used to think Vancouver was busy!

We purchased a day pass which allowed us to try out over 20 of the attractions - of course we didn't get to all of them - it was a really hot day so we took advantage of many of the air-conditioned venues.  I think my two favourites were the Luges ride down the "mountain" (aka hill) and the Segway ride (no pictures of this unfortunately).  Neither of these were long enough unfortunately.

This is the luge ride - a bit hard to see.  You go down on gravity controlled cars on a track that has some banked corners and lots of twists.  Definitely something to do more than once.

This is the ride back up to the Cable Care

Eating out in Singapore is really inexpensive as long as you like Asian food - there are food stalls on every corner and you can find a meal for about $3-4 Singapore dollars (about $2.50-3.50 Cdn).  Unfortunately as with all touristy areas, the availability of inexpensive food was not evident on Sentosa - $44 Singapore Dollars (about $40) for fish and chips and pizza for lunch and then another $27 for 2 beers :(

There are 3 beaches on Sentosa - we had lunch at Siloso Beach and then tested the water in the Singapore Strait (we thought it was the South China Sea when we were there).

Notice all of the freighters waiting to get into the port - they go for as far as the eye can see!

It's been a busy 3 days touring - stay tuned for more of the sights.
Melva