Our flight to Hong Kong was smooth and easy. We came to the airport at 7:00 o’clock PM and I was very excited. We took a cab to our apartment and, when we came, we were shocked by how tiny the place was (HK is one of the most populated places on earth so space is very limited)! There were 4 tiny rooms. 2 of them were bedrooms ...
Our last day was probably the best day in our visit to Singapore. In the start of the day we went to the pools on the roof of our house. They are very big and good for swimming. There are 4 of them. We swam around for about 2 hours and came back to our house. Then we came down and walked around for a little. After that we decided to...
In Dunedin, we met 2 cool people: Chris and Val. Coincidentally, they live in Singapore, and we met them on Saturday. They invited us to go on a tour of Singapore. We walked into a very old temple dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea. There were a few people offering things, praying and burning incense. I also learned that it was a la...
My Mom, Evan and I went to Gardens by the Bay, a very big, modern, futuristic botanical garden that we could see from our building. It is a world famous garden that even appears on a Singaporean coin. The garden comprises open gardens and two large domes, called the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest. We arrived, bought our tickets and...
It was late at night (7:00 o’clock PM) when we arrived in Singapore. At least for me it was, because it is a 5-hour difference from Auckland and I slept only 2 hours on the 10-hour-long flight. I was veeeeeery tired when I got off the plane and into Changi Airport. We needed to drive to Marina Bay because our apartment was the...
To break our trip to Singapore we decided to make a stopover to Auckland for 4 days. First we wanted to go to Waiheke Island, an island off the coast of Auckland. It is a half-hour ferry ride to Waiheke. It is very beautiful. It has a lot of beaches and mountains. But on Waiheke we wanted to go to to Oneroa, a little village wit...
It was great. Dunedin had a lot of fun places like museums and pools. I met a lot of good people and will never forget them. I will miss Dunedin. ...
Our friends Jeff and Lisa suggested to do something fun: clamming! On a Sunday we came to Jeff and Lisa’s and we grabbed a few buckets and set off. We were going to a place called Warrington Surf. It is a place where you come and (I couldn’t believe it at first) you put your hand into the sand and you retrieve a LOT of c...
Once we went to Oamaru, a city in north Otago (Otago is a big part of the south island that includes the cities Alexandra, Queenstown, Dunedin, Arrowtown, and Oamaru, out of everywhere I’ve been). Oamaru is in the Guinness World Records for the most old-fashioned steam vehicles. They are Victorian style. We saw a truck, a rolle...
Once we went to Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand. The city is best known for their successful colony of tuataras, a prehistoric lizard that survived only in New Zealand. It even has 3 eyes (I am completely not kidding)! When we came to the tuatarium we saw a 120-year-old tuatara named Henry. When he was younger he g...