This might be my new favorite city // Solo female travel in Singapore 🇸🇬😍🌃

Hello and welcome to my channel. Welcome if you are new. My name is Catherine and in today's video I just want to share with you my Singapore adventures. I am staying here for four full days I arrived yesterday in the morning, but I was so exhausted that I didn't do much and Yeah, today is my first full day. I'm just gonna go explore and in this video I'm just gonna share with you what you can do in Singapore. I'm just sitting down at both way and I am really enjoying it. It's so beautiful here and peaceful and I'm just gonna go around I'm probably gonna go to Marina Bay Sands today So yeah, let's go Goodness, it is so hot here. It's like sauna I remember Asia being this hot and humid but not quite like this. It's insane I'm staying in both way. It is only 10 minute walk from the Esplanade and the Merlion Park and it's really weird for me to say Merlion. I just want to say Merlion I don't know. I know it's Merlion, but it's just so weird, but Just look at how pretty it is here. I just cannot Now I am in the Sun Pavilion. Entrance is free and you can just wander around all of these like cactuses and Plants and it's like a botanical garden. There is also a few Places here that you have to pay for but it's basically a lot of free activities as well Which is absolutely insane and I love it And I love how all of these plants that we grow as house plants live here in their natural Habitat and I think I have said that before in one of my Europe videos when I traveled Europe in summer, but it just doesn't stop surprising me and Wow, I love this and just look I just found a plant that's literally on my Plant shelf, but here it is huge. Just look at it Like a plant lovers paradise. I love it here So I am here at the super tea grow and it just looks so phenomenal I will come here at night as well because I've heard that at night It looks so magical, but even now it just looks so magnificent They are bigger than I thought they would be and there's also a treetop walk up there I I don't know how much it costs but I'm not gonna go there because I've done a bunch of treetop walks in my life and I know this is nothing I've ever experienced before because these are artificial trees, but yeah, still I I just I just don't know I If you like it you could do that as well, but I just I just don't feel like doing it If you come to Gardens by the Bay and you think there is only Super tree grow and flower dome and the waterfall you are so wrong There is so much to see there is Malay garden. There is Chinese garden Indian garden There's so much to do lots of playing grounds for kids lots of walkways just so beautiful lush green The views are absolutely insane and I absolutely love it here And as far as safety goes, I feel absolutely safe as a solo female traveler I have no concerns whatsoever and I just can see myself live here. It is just so beautiful I think I say it a lot when I travel that I could see myself living in the place This just feels so homey and so safe and so for people, you know, like you can see that government and They're just building things and making things better for their people, you know Of course, every country has its own flaws and I'm sure Singapore has some clauses I just it just absolutely blew my mind how beautiful and Safe and just how how futuristic the city is So I just absolutely love it here and right now I think I'm just gonna walk around for a little bit more and then I'm just gonna go back and I decided that I don't want to exhaust myself too much and I'm gonna be walking and exploring until like 3 4 p.m. And then I would just go back and have some study time work time. I need to edit lots of videos. So Yeah, I think to not exhaust myself I will allow myself some time like rest time as well because travel fatigue and travel exhaustion is a real thing and especially in climates like this when it's Extremely hot and extremely humid you just get so exhausted very quickly So if you ever travel to Southeast Asia allow yourself some time for rest getting really hungry And I wanted to eat at the Maxwell Food center that is really close to the Maxwell MRT where I got off when I got On a metro from Gardens by the Bay, but I as a white stupid girl I couldn't find the Maxwell food center as like running around but I couldn't find the entrance So I went to the poker center that I was before and I had a really great me goreng noodles and some lime juice and it was 150 for the juice and $5 for me going with egg. So I think it's a great value Traveling is as expensive as you make it and even in cities like Singapore one of the most expensive cities in the world You can find cheap food and cheap activities and cheap like stuff to do on budget. So It is the next day and after some delicious simple breakfast at my hostel I came to the Makaritchi natural natural reserve and oh my gosh, it is so humid today and honestly, I Couldn't fall asleep last night until 1 a.m. And I thought I got used to the time difference but no jet lag got me but this morning I pushed myself to get up at 830 and Yeah, I've been walking for a while now. I have big plans for today I don't know if I will do it all because I'm already quite tired, but Yeah, it is beautiful it is peaceful and honestly when I was watching videos from Singapore or blog posts I never saw this trail this park as one of the attractions that you should do But I would say that you must do this there is this free treetop walk and then also like this bushwalk is very beautiful and very peaceful and If you are into walking hiking bushwalking Definitely give it a try. So yeah now let's go to the treetop walk. There's so many little ones. It's crazy I'm gonna lie. I'm not the biggest fan of monkeys I'm a little bit afraid of them because I've heard that they can take your caps and glasses and everything and glasses is my one of my most valuable things in the world, so Yeah, but they are so cute It feels like there's not many tourists at all it looks like it's mostly Locals, but again, it's really hard to tell who's local and who's not here But it looks like they're like all on their morning walk like old people Walking spending their morning healthy, but yeah, it is so hot and humid It honestly feels even hotter and humidor than it was yesterday. I don't know it just There's multiple trails and I am going to the treetop walk It's so peaceful and beautiful here like a real jungle almost there Just 500 more meters to go. You go uphill to then go downhill to the treetop walk and Honestly, I wouldn't say it's really hard It was hard at one point like where the incline is a little bit bigger But overall my fitness level is pretty much non-existent so if you are fit, and if you are just an average person you can do it in any clothes or shoes and All of the people are wearing sports clothes here, and I'm the only one wearing ribbed jeans, but honestly It's totally doable and it's totally fine Don't ask me what they are doing Next up for today is Singapore Botanical Gardens and honestly, it's so huge you could spend an entire day here, but My feet are just dying So I think I'm just gonna go to the National Orchid Garden because I love orchids and I just want to see them I just want to see what this place is about and then also visit the lake side and just chill for a little bit because Honestly, I am just I'm just so tired I decided to skip on the orchid garden mainly because it's $15 and it's more than I'm willing to pay for this but without Going to orchid garden there is still loads and loads to do loads of plants loads of prayer plants like marantas that put their leaves up at night and lots of other plants lots of palms, and I'm just going to the lake and just gonna chill by the lakeside and I think even if you don't do any paid activities here. You can still have lots of fun and enjoy the day There is literally so many beautiful tropical plants in here An interesting fact about this lake there was actually a crocodile that lived in the lake for like two years and Then they had to drain all of the water off the lake so they could catch the animal Yeah, pretty cool I sat down to relax a little bit and I saw that I have multiple blisters and I like popped them and Now I started walking again, and I am like debating my life choices, but this is what travel is sometimes about it's like it hurts sometimes I Was planning to go to little India for lunch and like wander around and maybe buy a sarong I really want to buy sarong to have it like a beach towel as well because my travel towel It's like it's so soft that everything sticks to it basically and it just gets very dirty very quickly And so I thought maybe I could buy a sarong or something So yeah, but now that I have these blisters, and I popped them and it hurts so bad I just don't know what should I do like maybe I should go back to the hostel and chill for a little bit or just You know go to little India because at first I thought okay four full days in Singapore is a lot But now that it's Thursday already, and I leave on Sunday, and I still want to see so much I just think that I should push myself For a little bit and then go to back to hostel and just chill for the rest of the day, so We'll see what I end up doing, but right now. I am walking to the MRT station I decided that I am going to go to little India and have some lunch at a food center there because I am getting hungry And I don't have to rush anywhere. I can take my time and walk slowly or as fast as I can and just try to enjoy this time as much as I can because despite the fact that my feet hurt so bad and You know when something starts to hurt you don't even feel the humidity and the heat anymore the only thing I hope for that it doesn't rain because Rains here can be very heavy Got myself some freshly squeezed orange juice for 250 and honestly I feel like a whole new woman after that lunch and this whole juice is just giving me so much more energy and Life and yeah, I'm just now gonna go to walk around the streets of little India and just admire this place this What is it called this neighborhood of Singapore where pretty much everybody is Indian except for me and some other tourists, but Yeah, let's explore a little India They really wanted to find the magnet because you probably know I collect magnets as a typical tourist Yes, but I couldn't find one that I really liked so I didn't get one in Chinatown. There's so many cute souvenir shops and Trust me you would want to get everything but like I didn't find super cute magnets They were all like mediocre, so I didn't get any so hopefully I can find something in the next one and a half days But that's my update. It's getting like overcast. It's probably gonna rain So I'm gonna return to my hostel and have some like chill time talk to my mom Singapore in February they said it's the driest month of the year. They said Hey guys, I don't know if you can see or hear me, but I just had lunch lunch. I just had dinner at Lapasat Poker Center and it was probably the biggest poker center that I've been. I had chicken noodles with curry sauce and now I'm just walking to Marina Bay where they have these like spectra light shows with fountains and then like the giant Giant trees they light up in the dark, but it's been raining like crazy for a past like 20 minutes but now it's a little bit better and I'm just walking under these trees and hopefully the show is on this evening because I don't know if it's I honestly don't know if They make the show when it's raining. So fingers crossed. I have no clue what this is. But basically, yeah Today is my final day here and I'm going to Sentosa Island I am so excited I've never been so excited to chill on the beach. There is a ton to do on Sentosa Island But I'm not going to do too much. I'm just mainly going there to chill on the beach. But yeah, let's go there together I'm on the beach It's so beautiful here and yeah, there's some construction noise Guys so I just quickly wanted to pop in here to talk about travel expectations So I just met this lady from the UK She was trying to find this trail on Sentosa Island and I was interested in the trail as well But my feet hurt so much and I have those blisters and it just hurts so bad that I'm not going on that trail but she couldn't find the trail we couldn't figure it out and Then I went to the tower and I met her again and she was like, oh I am so disappointed I thought this tower is gonna be higher and I was like, yeah sure And I didn't even know that there would be a tower But for example, I am quite disappointed with the Sentosa Island in general No, I thought it would be different and so I think it's very important to learn to travel without expectations And I am slowly learning that because I've learned my lesson the hard way when I set expectations that oh We're gonna do this or we're gonna do that And so now I am trying trying and learning to travel without expectation It would be more fun if we are surprised how much we like the place when we don't have expectations rather than being disappointed I hope it makes sense. This is the southernmost point in the continental Asia and I'm just gonna go back and just chill on the beach and relax for the rest of the day Probably gonna spend here a few hours and then just return to my house because I leave tomorrow morning and I have to chill Yeah, I will see you a little bit later Right, I decided to go back because I am getting really hungry and it's getting really really hot out And I don't want to burn. I think I am sunburned already, but yeah, I'm just gonna go back to mainland Singapore and have something to eat and then then see What I end up doing, but I hope you guys enjoyed this video I know it was quite a long one I have decided to combine all four full days in Singapore into one vlog and Yeah, I think it was a long one But nonetheless, I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to Like and subscribe and I will see you very soon. Bye