Busy day today! I unexpectedly had quite a late night last night, after I met up with some of the guys from New Years at a pub in Boat Quay, but the bonus of that was that I managed to sleep in properly! Once I finally got up and ready, I headed off to Pasir Panjang, which is where the Southern Ridges walk begins. I had breakfast(/lunch) at a hawker centre next to the train station. I had a Malay dish that is really popular here, Nasi Lemak, which is a little dome of coconut rice with a few sides - I had chicken, little dried fish, and some mystery chilli sauce. Yum! Perfect walking fuel. I started off my walk on a little canopy walk (on a raised boardwalk, to be fair) and was off in la la land, and almost stepped on a snake! Just a little one, but still, that gave me an adrenaline rush. So paid a bit more attention to where my feet went after that! The Southern Ridges is a walk that joins a few different parks west of the city. It took me about 2 hours, and had some very cool scenery - especially the architecture! A lot of it was on raised (very high) catwalks through forest, which was really cool. You'd almost forget you were in the city, except the noises, mostly you could hear traffic noise still. It finished at the peak of Mt Faber, from where I caught a cable car down to Sentosa Island. I did the 'MegaZip' there, which I'd seen when I was there the other day - a giant zip line from the top of Sentosa island down to a little island just off the coast of Sentosa. That was really cool! Then I relaxed on the beach for a while (I was desperate for a swim), then made my way back to the hostel to get ready for the Night Safari (night time zoo) tonight! I had dinner in a hawker centre near the hostel, and had a plain 'dosai', a savoury pancake thing made from rice flour served with some little curries. That was yum too!

Update: the Night Safari was absolutely awesome, very much like Werribee zoo, with most of the animals in an open area that the 'tram' (definitely a truck) drove through . It was interspersed with walking trails though, and it was very surreal walking around a zoo in the dark, especially when you could hear things in the trees! They had some amazingly weird animals - I saw a pangolin (photo to come when I get home, because it's in my phone), a slow loris (even awake and moving around!!), Malayan tigers, leopard cats, binturongs.. it was awesome. I was there from 7:15 until the last 'express transfer' bus at 11, so it was a fairly late night by the time I got back, but it was great.