Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Sentosa!

Today has been the day we have all been looking forward to, the visit to Sentosa. Sentosa is an Island on the edge of Singapore that has been developed into a tourist island resort with rides and restaurants etc etc. in the morning we visited the Singapore Flyer. it is the largest moving viewing platform in the world, it is a larger version of the London Eye. the views were unfortunately mostly of construction sites but the experience was good. we then got on the coach and drove the the cable car connection to Sentosa. after a 20 or so minute swing down to the Island we arrived just in time for lunch in the sunshine before separating up into our smaller friend groups and exploring the resort.
my group decided to head straight to the pizza restaurant and ordered a huge cheese pizza to share! we then went on a ride called the Sky Tower, this was a 130m tall revolving viewing gallery that we took some amazing photos of Singapore from. we then had tickets to see a 4D movie with the funny little glasses you have to wear, it was something to do with pirates i think!! mainly for little kids but the chairs moved, we were sprayed with water and blown with air, the technology was beyond fantastic. we wanted to make the most of our chill out time so caught a bus to the amazing white sandy beaches with palms and umbrellas. as soon as we stretched out on our towels in our bikini's the heavens opened and we found ourselves sunbathing in a full blown monsoon without much shelter to hide under! it was such a funny experience! after deciding we were already wet we went swimming for the rest of the afternoon, the water was as warm as a bath, so lovely. meeting up with the rest of the cadets later we found that some had visited the aquarium and a couple had even swum with dolphins!
to round the day off we watched a "sounds of the sea" show. this was a beach open air theater with a huge mock wooden village built on stilts out in the sea. using massive jet of water and state of the art projection from the shore they created moving, talking, singing animations in the water as a story of a princess enchanted in the village needing to be saved was told. fire works, music and flashing lights created the most unusual show that i doubt i will ever witness again in my life!!

off to bed now, night everyone!

Di

1 comment:

Geoff & Debbie said...

Diana & Matt, The blog is a great idea and we look forward to logging on every day to catch up with your experiences. You are obviously having a fantastic time making good friends with the other participants and the superb hospitality of your hosts is clear to see. Hopefully you have lots of photos and we look forward to hearing a lot morte when you come home. Geoff & Debbie Pitts