Singapore Solo Adventure Part 2

Holy Thursday. If I were in Manila, I will be spending the night visiting churches and reliving the Stations of the Cross during Visita Iglesia. This day, I was in Singapore and I thought, why not do Visita Iglesia here.


So, a quick research online, I found the names and addresses of churches within Singapore. Right after breakfast, I boarded the train and started my Visita Iglesia. This is the first Visita Iglesia I'm doing outside the Philippines.
First Leg- Victoria Street/Queens Road.

1. Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Lourdes, Ophir Road, Singapore

then walked further and further down the road

2. St Joseph Church

St. Joseph Church, Singapore

3. St Peter and Paul

St. Peter and Paul, Singapore

4. Good Sheperd Cathedral

Good Sheperd Cathedral

Stopped as well in Singapore Art Museum (which looks like a Church as well, and perhaps it was before) and Chjmes.

Singapore Art Musuem

Chjmes

Then boarded the MRT and alighted at Boon Keng station. It was a long walk under the scorching sun until I reached the next church.


5. St. Michael's Church in St. Michael's Road. This seems to be somewhere in a residential outskirt of Singapore. Lots of residential condominiums and single detached houses). Happy to see 'regular houses' in SG.

St. Michael Church

Walk back under scorching sun until the main street, rode a bus, then the MRT, and walked (and got lost) going to the next church. Novena Church.

Novena Church

While here, the rain poured and it poured hard. I waited for it to subside and walked back to the MRT station.


My last stop is St. Andrews cathedral- an Anglican church, which is one of the highlights of Singapore City as well.

St. Andrew's Cathedral

Went back to Chinatown, famished and tired. Had late lunch in a Chinese Restaurant (damn expensive noodles!) and rested and freshened up for the night.

SGD 15 Noodles!

That night, we watched Wicked. And it was wicked! :)

Afterwhich we went to Marina Barage, to watch the night kite flyers and to get view of the city by night.

Finding peace in a city so busy

We capped of the night, and my Singapore trip, eating hummus and lamb kebabs, and smoking shisha, seated by the sidewalk with laid out carpets in one of those side streets in Kampong Glam.


Singapore, til next time.

Travel Solo Adventure-

I feel that each one of us should travel solo at least once in our lifetime, not for school or for work but just because.

Recently, I embarked on that solo trip- that adventure you have to do when you're young and single. Some may say it is an 'Eat Pray Love' moment, others may wittily say 'Eat Prey Love'. Some may find this to be soul searching experience. My mom even urged me to soulmate search on this one.

But for whatever reason, I just jumped right to it. It just one of those things I feel I have to do.

So, with my reliable red 30L backpack, I ventured to perhaps the most exciting and challenging trip I've taken. 8 days. 4 countries. And most of the time solo.

I started in Singapore, spent a night in Kuala Lumpur, headed to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and concluded in Thailand.

It was a trip of many firsts and of countless anecdotes.
In Singapore, I tried indoor sky diving, successfully finished Visita Iglesia (without the live aid of Google Maps), watched Wicked, and smoked some shisha sitting on a carpet by a sidewalk.

In Yogyakarta, started my Temple Run series and attended Easter eve mass in Javanese.

In Bangkok, destroyed a BTS (MRT) entrance machine when I put in a coin in the card slot *facepalm*.

For the first time as well, I've been in 3 countries in one day- eating breakfast in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, lunch in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and dinner in Bangkok, Thailand.

Each day, a new story. Each destination, a new experience. And here's how it goes...