July 22 Day 158
We
got up, had breakfast and were initially worried that our drive wouldn’t be
available as several other groups were leaving at the same time as us. We got an English speaking driver we were
familiar with and the airport was a really short trip. On the way he told us that the world cup of
boxing was going to have matches held in Labuan Bajo and that he was an
enthusiast of the sport.
The
airport was new and well laid out. We
had to buy our flights separately even though they were on the same airline as
when they were combined the website added $1000 to the charge. The woman at our desk was able to check our
bag on to Singapore so at least we didn’t have that to worry about.
The
flights connected in Bali and Jakarta, so it was a long day of airports. At least they were generous with the food so
that we were fairly stuffed when we landed in Singapore.
Customs
took awhile as they didn’t like that we filled out our cards in pencil so we
had to redo them. Next to us was a high
tech security gate where everyone who went through had to give fingerprints on
top of swiping their cards.
We
were late getting out so Meg lobbied to get a cab, which turned out to be a
short ride for $25, so not ridiculous.
The cab had to drop us off a block away since we were staying on a
pedestrian street in the heart of Chinatown.
The street was nicely lit and there was a Tintin shop on it, who knew?
The
hostel office was across the street from our room and was fortunately still
open. The woman who showed us in gave
the spiel at an impossibly quick rate, probably her twentieth time doing it
that day. Our room was very simple, with
a bunk bed and a shared washroom but it was one of the few affordable places we
looked at in the city.
Tired
from our trip, we settled in and went to bed.
The only problem was that the dorm next to us had a bunch of very young
Vietnamese women who came in late and were very loud. Once they settled down we got back to sleep,
though.
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