View from the Top

As part of our sightseeing adventure our first day in Singapore, we took the opportunity to take a ride on the Singapore Flyer, a gigantic ferris wheel which they will proudly (and frequently) tell you is taller than the London Eye. Having been too cheap to pay exorbitantly to ride the Eye while I was in London, the whole  giant sky ride experience was new. After navigating the surrounding mall and hoards of Indian tour groups, you make to the loading platform and hop in a tube-like capsule for your brief and "very auspicious" ride around the wheel. Dave and I opted for the audio tour which we were hoping was a where's-where of Sing, but were surprised to find out it was actually Feng Shui 101.  30 minutes later, we were practically Feng Shui experts.  The view from the Flyer is pretty amazing- on one side you can see all the way over the harbour to Indonesia and on the other you get a panoramic view of the whole island to the Malaysian border.

Here are some pictures from the ride: