Yesterday’s tour of Little India was so good that he opted for today’s trip to the Malaysian district. Talk about knowing absolutely nothing about the culture!
This group was much smaller than yesterday’s – 6 Americans (1 who used to live in Charlotte, of all places!), 1 Australian kid, a guy he thinks was from Germany and a lady who lives here, originally from Germany, with her 18 month old, Sophie.
As you might imagine, Sophie got bored before the rest of us. They bugged out of the trip early.
Our guide was Geraldine, who was from the same company as yesterday. What a great tour company they are! Can’t recommend them highly enough.
The interesting thing about this tour was that it also took in some of the pre-history of Singapore. At least, the pre-history before Mr. Raffles came and got the place all Anglo-fied.
To get to this neighborhood, Larry had to take not one but two subways. He’d learned from yesterday not to listen, or even ask, the people at the front desk. They seem to enjoy giving you directions through outer Mongolia to get to wherever it is your going. Instead, rely on the subway map – they’re color coded and easy to read.
So it was the purple line to an interchange, then an orange line out to where we were going – "Bugis Stop."
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