Posts Tagged ‘Singapore’

2010_08_27_12_37_54_singapore-safaris.jpg---isiSingapore Zoo night safari has an impressive package. Although not directly in the real wilderness, but this tour will bring to your own experience. If interested to do the night safari at Singapore Zoo, you can book a tour package offered viator.com. In this tour package, you can order with or without dinner.

With costs ranging from SGD35, 14 (around Rp236 thousand) and SGD55, 48 plus dinner (around Rp372 thousand), you can follow the following tram safari evening with a local guide, entrance ticket to the zoo, and transportation by bus air conditioning.

Night safari officers will collect you from the hotel lodging in the city or Sentosa Island in Singapore, but not including the Changi Village Hotel and Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Hotel. For information on arrival and election tour dates, you can visit her site. Read the rest of this entry »

1626092620X310Day afternoon when the foot shopping area of Orchard, Singapore, mid-April. We entered the Ion Orchard mall. On the mall’s second floor, there is a place to drink tea TWG Tea Salon & Boutique. TWG is the short of The Wellness Group, a tea company which was founded in 1837. In addition to distributing tea to various countries, the TWG also has a few tea houses which are located in shopping malls in Singapore.

Standing in the middle of the mall corridor, this tea glass-walled house. Hundreds collections of tea are packed with colorful cans lined up on tables and cabinets that can be rotated cylinder. There are about 800 collections of tea sold in tea houses TWG. The number is indeed very much. Unnecessary confusion. There are officers who advanced to explain the product sold following its flavor.

TWG imported tea in tea plantations in various countries, like China, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, Rwanda, up to Cameroon. Read the rest of this entry »

marinabarrage2If you visit Singapore, do not miss to stop at the Marina Barrage. This new icon that represents the country’s eco-blend technology and art and is operated only six months. At the invitation of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) late last May, along with a number of journalists from various regions in Indonesia, I was invited to various places, including the Marina Barrage.

Dam projects worth 226 million dollars or more than Rp 1.5 trillion, which was built at the mouth of the Marina Channel is working to help restrain the tide as well as overcoming the problem of flooding in some lower lying areas like Chinatown, Boat Quay, Jalan Besar, and Geylang.

Damnya consists of nine steel gates of the water from each of 30 meters, which was built extending approximately 350 meters. 5-meter-high steel gates that can be derived when dry so that water from the reservoir can be released into the sea, and also serves as a brace during high tide. Salt water will slowly be replaced by rainwater. And to avoid flooding, excess water discharged into the sea by opening the door checkers. But when the ocean tide, the excess water removed with a pump air.Keberadaan dam is also equipped with solar cell technology for capturing sunlight converted into electricity. So not hard to get the electricity supply to meet market demand. Seeing the breakthrough made in Singapore, I imagine if similar technology could be built in Semarang to overcome rob. Read the rest of this entry »

legend-of-the-seas-largeDay afternoon when we got out of the Meritus Mandarin Hotel Singapore to the port of Singapore Cruise Center. There we went straight to the reception counter to check in the passengers Legend of the Seas, a cruise ship in the Royal Caribbean International. The counters had been opened at 10:30 local time, and the ship will sail on that day, at 17:00, to Port Klang in Malaysia.

Counter check-in is divided into two floors. First floor to the trunk, and the second floor to get the module that contains the rules for the cruise ship and sea pass card to swap our passports. Not only as a replacement passport, sea pass also serves as a room key. He also serves as a transaction during the cruise because the ship was allowed to transact with cash. Therefore, upon check in, each passenger is obliged to register their credit card numbers. Read the rest of this entry »