The first impressions

On my first day in Singapore I wanted to walk down along Singapore River to get to Alexa, who is another exchange student from TU Darmstadt. As I didn't had a proper map I got lost a little bit at fist. I came in to a district with huge housing blocks and only local people. Even if they looked at me a little bit irritated I never felt endangered or unwell. I think the city is really as save as all people are telling. But after that I found the river and Alexa's Hotel. But I probably wasn't that eager to take pictures at that day, because there is only one... There were some guys in a park who flew illuminated remote controlled model aircrafts. I was really fascinated of them.

The next day Alexa, Roman an me (the three exchange students from TU Darmstadt) met at the Merlion, the landmark of Singapore. It is therefore a major tourist attraction point, as you can see on the pictures. In fact Roman brought his neighbour, Lingling, with him, so we were four. That day we did a little sightseeing tour through the city and visited quite a lot of nice place. The flair of the city changes very much depending on the quarter you are. E.g. Chinatown and Little India are very crowed and lively whereas the business district is naturally rather cold and sterile. But even in the crowdiest places the pavement is very clean, probably due to the 1000S$ fine for littering...