Singapore Museum and Mt. Faber

It seems to rain every afternoon so I decided to visit a museum to at least keep dry for one of the two week-end days. The Singapore museum is actually amazingly good. I was impressed. You buy one ticket which gets you into all of the galleries. This month, or few months, they had a Pompeii exhibit which is as close I guess as I will ever get to Pompeii. You remember Josh we almost got there a few years ago but never made it. Remember the porter in Naples?

Anyway the display was fabulous with good explanations, a 3D video where we had to wear the special glasses and mosaics, statues, jewelry and all kinds of artifacts. The Romans were amazingly developed for their period in history.

However, what impressed me even more was the Singapore history museum. You were given an audio player ( which, of course, I could not figure out) and walked through two floors of numbers exhibitions taking us through the colonial period to the past war era. It was really good and I especially loved the world war two section. Obviously Singapore fell like a deck of cards.

Today I went to Mount Faber which overlooks the bay and Indonesia, not too far away. There are many "loops" where you can wind your way down and I saw some really interesting traditional Singapore houses ( or the old colonial sort), forests and gardens and of course great bathrooms. There was also an elevated path rising over the forest floor, only in Singapore you say!

By the way, on another note I went to the infamous bar area last night off of Orchard road where the expats go to drink after work. The music was so loud I never made it inside any of the bars...the music was virtually an assault on my ears!

Now I have a week to figure out what to do next week-end.