For our final day in Singapore we did some shopping and went t0 some museums. The main shopping is at a place called Orchard Road which had a large number of enormous malls. You can see how big one of them is from the first video
Not only were they huge but this one also had a river in it which took people down on a boat!
As it was Christmas there was lots of Christmas tree, decorations and lights. It was amazing to see how many shops there were and how busy it was. What was also good was there were a number of British shops there such as M&S which meant I could buy some new clothes I needed.
In the afternoon we went to some museums. One of them was on all the different civilisations in Asia and how they developed. This was interesting but a lot of information to take in. There were many artifacts from different cultures on display. Below is a photo of me in the Arabian area.
We also went to the spot where Thomas Raffles 'discoverd' Singapore for the British empire in 1819 (see below). This may go some way to explain why Singapore is so different from the rest of Asia.
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