Singapore

The Grand Prix night race was fun to watch! There were over 50,000 tourists in Singapore for the event so everywhere was packed, but I was able to watch the race on TV. It is definitely a fast race, and the night makes it even harder, there were a number of accidents, luckily it ended up not raining so that road was dry, preventing even more accidents.

On Monday night I decided to check out the Night Safari, apparently the only night zoo/safari in the world. It is just like a regular zoo but the animals are much more lively at night, since many of them are nocturnal anyway. I was able to catch the Creatures of the night show and took a 45 minute tram ride around the park to see animals from small mousedeer to leopards, lions, giraffe, zebra and elephants. Many of the animals came right up to the tram. Afterwards I was able to walk around the many trails to see the animals. It was cool because I was there when many of them were being fed so they were a lot of fun to watch. I saw some Hyena's fighting over some meat and a lot of Hyena "laughing" was happening it was actually really cool to hear. I ended up staying at the safari until about midnight.

On Tuesday night I was able to get out with an alumni for a really good native Singaporean dinner (which is very similar to Chinese, the style coming from the island of Hainan). We stayed out late talking about NU and Singapore.

On Wednesday I travelled to Taiwan which took most of the day, I am currently in Taipei for some visits. Unfortunately I don't know how much time I am going to get for sightseeing as I leave tomorrow morning for Hsinchu, a city about 20 minutes away by bullet train.

I am currently watching the Red Sox game in the middle of 2 visits so at least I'm able to follow one sport.

The end is near, on Saturday I move on to Beijing, my final stop before heading back to Boston. This trip has been a lot of fun, a little bit stressful and very exhausting but I'm looking forward to getting home for a while. I'm hoping to take some more pictures of Beijing and will post them when I get there.