Fantasy Island (Thursday)

More rain today but feeling emboldened by our excellent experience on the bus yesterday, I decided to tackle the MRT- Mass Rail Transportation- system. It turned out to be fabulously easy to use, sparklingly clean and super… yes, efficient. I may even go as far as suggesting that it might be the best underground system I have been on to-date.


Several people had suggested a trip to Sentosa Island and so we bought tickets for the cable car and set off. In order to catch the cable car to Sentosa, the first thing you have to do is take a lift to the fifteenth floor of a tower. It’s high. I confess to feeling a touch twitchy as the car launched itself off the edge of the tower but the view as we crossed over to the island was well worth the effort.

Sentosa is a crazy kinda place. It’s part resort, part fun park, part beach and ALL tourist honey pot. There was something that reminded me about Sentosa that reminded me of Fantasy Island- I guess it’s the tropical island business- but I did keep expecting Tattoo to jump out at me.

POSTSCRIPT
I have just discovered that Sentosa Island has a really interesting history: It has long been seen as a strategic area and has been occupied by a variety of military forces. Apparently, during the Japanese occupation, some pretty unpleasant stuff happened on the island and so in the 1970s, the Singaporean government decided to turn it into a place that would be for everyone to enjoy.