Day two

So last night we headed to Clarke Quay which was really pretty and had a Thai dinner - absolutely gorgeous food situated right on the banks of the river. After a strange night's sleep (damn you, jet lag) we got up this morning and headed to Sentosa Island, which is the southerly most point of continental Asia. It's basically a island covered in attractions mingled with the rainforest and beautiful beaches. We got the MRT to the Harbour Station and then decided to take the cable car across to the Island which was a good choice as we got to see over the docks. On approach Sentosa looks like a rainforesty paradise on one side and a building site on the other. Unfortunately tourism has encroached quite heavily on to the northern side of the Island which was once rainforest and they're building a Universal Studios there. As soon as we got off the cable car we saw a "Luge and Skytrain" attraction which was so much fun we decided to do it again :-) basically you sit in a go kart with no brakes and no steering wheel and go hurtling down a hill - if you want to stop you have to lean back until the wheels stop moving. Once at the bottom you get on a ski-lift type thing and it takes you on a ten-min journey over the tree tops and the views over the Island are absolutely stunning.

After the luge we decided to go to the Butterfly and Insect House which was great - I fed parrots! At one point I had three on my arms all fighting for the food and one on my head - which was interesting. The whole time there was one little guy who just sat on my shoulder (insert pirate "aarrr" here) and he kept licking me. He was kinda cute. Mark didn't want a turn after he nearly got one landing on his head. The butterflies were lovely too - so many different colours.

We then headed down to the other side of the Island to a place called "Fish Reflexology". Basically, you sit with your feet in a bath which has hundreds of little fish in it and they nibble away all the dead skin on your feet. It was so tickly at first but in the end it turned out to be very relaxing. Obviously Mark has very dead feet as practically the whole shoal covered his feet and legs whereas I only had twenty or so nibbling me. After the fish had worked their magic we had a 20min reflexology massage which was lovely and made us very sleepy! I wouldn't mind getting some of those fish - never need to pumice again! We wandered back along the coast of the island which was just stunning. It really was a beautiful island paradise down there; blue, warm sea and white sand with palm trees all around and little islets which you could swim out to.

We came across this place called Eco Adventures which runs tours around the island - on Segways! Of course, we couldn't pass up that opportunity so on we hopped and, in my case of course, promptly fell off again into a bollard. Ouch. After some practice it was actually really easy; you just sorta intuitively move it - great fun and we got to see more of this beautiful island. After reluctantly giving our Segways back we passed by the luge place and couldn't resist another turn :-). It was the most wonderful day - so much fun and so relaxing. Gonna head into the colonial centre now for dinner.

Love from us xxx