We got in late and headed to Ideal Backpackers Hostel. Singapore is very expensive and this was the cheapest place we could find (and it wasn't that cheap). This place was horrible. Our "private room" was a room full of bunk beds all to ourself. I saw no 'backpackers' here, just rats.
Rats are disgusting. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and saw a rat carrying a chicken bone. I went to the bathroom again before bed and saw another rat. Then, as we were trying to fall asleep the rats were fighting in the ceiling above us. It was scary and gross and totally not ideal. We changed rooms to one equally weird and tried to sleep. Early in the morning we were out of there.
We had planned for only one day in Singapore on our way to Malaysia. We first went to see the famous Singapore Flyer. It's the worlds biggest Ferris wheel! I recently just read the book, Devil in the White City, about Chicago's worlds fair and the murders there. The first Ferris wheel was built for the fair, so I was nerdily (is that a word?) excited to see this wheel. Of course, it was so expensive to ride it. So we just looked at it for a while and pretended that was good enough. We also went to these beautiful gardens in Singapore. (They were free!) And walked around throughout them. We had a map and just planned to walk from bench to bench so we could put our bags down for a bit. We had eventually wasted enough time and headed to the bus station to take us to Malaysia.
Getting to Malaysia from Singapore is very interesting. You drive on a bus for about an hour, get off at the Malaysia border. Run up the stairs, exit Malaysia, run back down to get on your bus. Same idea in Singapore. However, at the Singapore border we missed our bus. Maybe I wasn't running fast enough? No worries. You just wait a few minutes and another bus is on it's way. And just like that you're in Malaysia!
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