{"id":34982,"date":"2016-04-19T02:34:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34982"},"modified":"2016-04-19T02:34:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:34:50","slug":"singapore-the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34982","title":{"rendered":"Singapore, the last day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wedding Moon<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, our last day in Singapore, was the usual packing, settling of accounts and the taxi ride to the airport. It also included a visit to the sky deck, the third of the three things I wanted to see. Nirvana exceeded my expectations, Skygreens fell far below them and the sky deck was in between. It was in between only because the park like aspect of it, which really interested me, was off limits to all but guests of the Sands Resort Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The views the sky deck\u00a0provided of this island nation were, however, stunning. And, again, it was hot.<\/p>\n<p>The night before we ate at the Singapore Cricket Club&#8217;s Padang Restaurant. Here is a photograph of the Cricket Club taken from the sky deck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34983\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-34983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck-420x237.jpg\" alt=\"Singapore Cricket Club from Sky deck\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck-420x237.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck-744x419.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Singapore-Cricket-Club-from-Sky-deck.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The merlion is a primary symbol of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlion2-e1461054387485.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34984\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-34984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlion2-e1461054387485-420x228.jpg\" alt=\"merlion2\" width=\"420\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlion2-e1461054387485-420x228.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/merlion2-e1461054387485.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lotus shaped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbmb.org\/asbmbtoday\/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=13700\">Artscience Museum<\/a>\u00a0is in the foreground here. The Esplanade where we listened to the Sikh music is the hedgehog shapes in the upper right and the Cricket Club is to the upper left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lotus-flower-cricket-club-esplanade-e1461054527650.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34985\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-34985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lotus-flower-cricket-club-esplanade-e1461054527650-420x359.jpg\" alt=\"lotus flower, cricket club, esplanade\" width=\"420\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lotus-flower-cricket-club-esplanade-e1461054527650-420x359.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/lotus-flower-cricket-club-esplanade-e1461054527650.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the sky deck park and the port beyond it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34986\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-34986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port-420x237.jpg\" alt=\"sky deck and port\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port-420x237.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port-744x419.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sky-deck-and-port.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wedding Moon Yesterday, our last day in Singapore, was the usual packing, settling of accounts and the taxi ride to the airport. It also included a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore, the last day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,290,65,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34987,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions\/34987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}