Bikes, too, come in "regular" and "good" versions
Then you can park the bike, stroll around a nature preserve, and climb a tower to look out over the rain forest.
A boardwalk brings you along mangrove forests and then out to the beach.
It's really a lovely place, and a perfect antidote to the intense urban-ness of Jakarta. I've been a little lukewarm on Singapore in the past, because it's mainly marketed as a shopping destination, but Ubin is great - I'd go back anytime, and I hope we will soon.
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So did you guys get the old, the normal or the new bikes?
that was my question too!
ubin looks just gorgeous. sounds like a great getaway from city life.
I'm not sure! Chad rented them. They seemed pretty normal -- they maybe had half the gears they were supposed to, and the chains were a little rusty, but they worked.
I wanna go. It looks dreamy. So, is English a language spoken by many in Singapore? Or by many tourists? I notice that all the signs are in English.
There was a woman in law school with me from there, but, I know very little of that country. She spoke English very well, so, I assume she grew up learning it.
Singapore is an amazing stew of languages including Hindi, Tamil, Malay and several Chinese dialects. But English is used by the goverment and in schools, and pretty much everyone speaks it, especially the younger generation. It's an impressive place -- clean, orderly, easy to get around, with a high standard of living, although perhaps a little too enthusiastic about wiping out its past in order to adopt a sort of 21st century business culture.
But when you come we'll just go to Bali, where we can do all the same things and more!
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