Drokpa Journal

Dates Traveled: July 2002
(I’d also worked/traveled here in April-June 1999, but that trip is without details)

I took a flight from Delhi to Bangkok and then directly on to Singapore - basically from filth to sterile in two short flights. The cleanliness of Singapore was blinding! Singapore was simply a short 4-day resupply stop where I was able to meet up with a few friends over some great seafood - pepper crab was every bit as good as I remembered. Proving that everything is relative, I admit to hating Singapore the last time I was there in ‘99. I found it sterile and regimented. This time, after India? It was great! Clean, easy to get around, streets were actually signed, everything worked, and transportation ran on time…what a concept. Very easy and relaxing, though you must pay for those conveniences (except of course if you have friends in town that insist on picking up the tabs - thanks Lynn and Sharen.) If I had to paint you a picture of something typically Singaporean, I think the best I can do is the laundry poles that are extended from the high-rise buildings. There is a lack of space, so people must build up instead of out.

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