ORCHARD ROAD (29/11/09 & 30/11/09)
After a relatively short bus journey and a surprisingly easy border crossing we arrived from Malaysia into Singapore. We spent our first day looking around the upmarket main shopping street of Singapore- Orchard Road.
We knew that Orchard Road is famous for it's shopping but nevertheless we were astonished by what we found. There are almost no shops on the road just massive (and we mean really massive) shopping mall after massive shopping mall, there are more than 20 of them with several more being built. It is quite hard to comprehend that people really need this much stuff and are willing to spend so much money on it. We felt rather like fish out of water and regarded the whole experience as being rather surreal. Great Christmas decorations though, even better at night (see tomorrow).
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