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Singapore is a shoppers paradise. Shopping centres all over the island are filled with  high end fashion brands. At the heart of this shopping paradise is Orchard Road where you will find a dizzying spread off glitzy shopping malls and designer boutiques. Singapore goods are of reasonably good quality and shopkeepers are generally honest because of strong consumer protection law. Almost all the stores in Singapore remain open all days in a week from 10 Am to 10pm. Mustafa in Little India is open 24 hours a day through out the year.

As a tourist or visitor, you can enjoy GST refunds on goods purchased. All you have to do is to follow three simple steps to obtain tax refunds.

IMM Shopping Mall & Daiso -always $2

That was our last day of our Singapore trip. In the morning we went to the IMM mall which is just 10 minutes travel from my friend’s house.It is a huge mall with so many shops, restaurants and food courts. We entered into Daiso Japan stores ,where all the stuffs(cosmetics, skincare,Cute accessories,Stationary, homeware ) costs $2. There are three Daiso branches in Singapore: one at IMM Jurong and the other two at Vivo City and Plaza Singapura. We had picked up so many items from this supermart.

Sentosa, Asia’s favourite playground, is the perfect holiday destinations for both locals and tourists which is just 15 minutes from Singapore city centre. This premier island resort offers a unique blend of attractions like Desperados, 4D magix, cine blast, cable car, skyline luge, songs of the sea, tiger sky tower, Sentosa underwater world , Universal studios,wave house,Butterfly park & insect kingdom, Images of Singapore and so on. We reached this family orientated, environment Park at 1.30 pm.

Our third day in Singapore we started at 10.00am to Snow city, which is just next door from my friend’s house at Jurong East. Snow city is the first permanent indoor snow centre in Singapore.Here the snow has been formed artificially. Snow City is a a combined project of the Singapore Science Centre and NTUC Income. For 1 hour Snow Play time we had to pay S$14 per person. Cameras are not allowed in the Snow Chamber.Jackets and boots will be provided before entering this winter wonderland. Wearing of long pants is compulsory.

After visiting the colorful Paradise in the Jurong bird park, next our destination is Clarke Quay which is located along the Singapore river, and it was the center of commerce during the late 19th century. Today ,Clarke Quay  is buzzing with life and activity.This time  we decided to use MRT trains . MRT operates from 5.30am to 12.30am.Fares ranging from S$0.80 to S$1.80.Each station provides coin -operated ticket dispensers for single trips. Ez-links cards for multiple trips can also be bought at most stations and are valid for usage on buses too. Thus singaore transport facility is efficient, safe and inexpensive. For more information log on to www.smrt.com.sg. You will not get any confusion in the train since a clear route map of all stations is shown in the train.

Our second day in Singapore trip we decided to visit Jurong Bird Park,which is one of the world’s largest bird park with a collection of  4,600 birds across 380 species.My friend’s  apartment was next to Chinese Gardens where we stayed. For half an hour we  wandered through the Chinese Garden and  then caught a taxi to Jurong Bird Park. We reached the Jurong Bird Park at 11.00am.

As I have mentioned in my previous post we finished seeing the Singapore Zoo at 6.00pm.  We had a pizza from the restaurant inside the zoo and continued our journey towards the direction showing Night Safari. Night Safari was truly an unique experience to us to view various nocturnal animals from different parts of the world. First I thought it would be seeing another zoo in dim light. But this Night safari was very informative and the animals where very active at night.