Its just gone 6pm here, and once again I'm down in the hotel foyer. I've just done a bit of reading on Singapore City, as we have a day there tomorrow.
I'll keep this short as our taxi will come at 7pm, in order to get us out to the airport (17km I believe) for our 11:30pm flight. Yes, thats right, the traffic in Bangalore is that bad that we need to allow 2 hours to travel that short distance.
Last night we "took" Sameer to the Hard Rock Cafe on MG road, as well as saying our farewells - we didn't want to get up at 6am this morning to say "see you in Canberra in a week or so".
Today has been fairly quiet for us - both still not over the gastro as well as knowing that we'd be
leaving in the evening. A good chunk of the morning was spent "doing the packing-thing" - we're ditching a fair amount of material here in order to hopefully stay inside the weight limitations of Singapore Airlines (as well as the space constraints of our bags). You should expect to see a pciture of what we left behind once we're back in oz.
With all that sorted we decided to do some final "quiet" sightseeing in order to be back in plenty of time to the hotel. As such we travelled by auto rickshaw to Lalbagh Botanic Gardens. These
are famous city gardens inspired/modelled-on (?) Kew Gardens in England, and named after Red Roses. A surprising element of the day was that the driver actually used the meter, rather than negotiating a price.
The gardens are nice with some beautiful trees, and flower beds. However the sun was particularly strong today, and neither of us had applied blockout (one of the items we had put in the "to be left behind" pile). As such our walk through the gardens became hops from one shaded bench or area to another.
Perhaps the highlight of the gardens was the band of monkeys that we found in one section.
They had a number of playful babies, but most surprising was when one of the adult monkeys casually walked over and occupied the bench right next to me (within arm's reach). Close up this breed (sorry - can't name it) has a set of impressive canines ... thoughts of rabbis went rapidly through my mind. However, and fortunately, the monkey was placid and shortly jumped up into the tree that was providing us with shade.
Tired, needing a place out of the sun, and some food (even though we weren't particularly hungry) we elected to visit the same mall as we had spent some time in yesterday. There's probably not much to report about this - it was much quieter today (working day) than yesterday, we did a small amount of souveneir/omiyage shopping, got a light lunch, and then headed back.
Well, I don't really know whether we'll be able to make an entry tomorrow. The airline is providing us with day usage of a hotel room so it will depend on several factors such as how well we are rested after the flight, the hotel's amenities, what sightseeing we attempt, and whether
we can catchup with Simon.
One thing I can say with certainty though is that we're both very much looking forward to getting home and seeing our family and friends again. See you guys soon!
I'll keep this short as our taxi will come at 7pm, in order to get us out to the airport (17km I believe) for our 11:30pm flight. Yes, thats right, the traffic in Bangalore is that bad that we need to allow 2 hours to travel that short distance.
Last night we "took" Sameer to the Hard Rock Cafe on MG road, as well as saying our farewells - we didn't want to get up at 6am this morning to say "see you in Canberra in a week or so".
Today has been fairly quiet for us - both still not over the gastro as well as knowing that we'd be
leaving in the evening. A good chunk of the morning was spent "doing the packing-thing" - we're ditching a fair amount of material here in order to hopefully stay inside the weight limitations of Singapore Airlines (as well as the space constraints of our bags). You should expect to see a pciture of what we left behind once we're back in oz.With all that sorted we decided to do some final "quiet" sightseeing in order to be back in plenty of time to the hotel. As such we travelled by auto rickshaw to Lalbagh Botanic Gardens. These
are famous city gardens inspired/modelled-on (?) Kew Gardens in England, and named after Red Roses. A surprising element of the day was that the driver actually used the meter, rather than negotiating a price.The gardens are nice with some beautiful trees, and flower beds. However the sun was particularly strong today, and neither of us had applied blockout (one of the items we had put in the "to be left behind" pile). As such our walk through the gardens became hops from one shaded bench or area to another.
Perhaps the highlight of the gardens was the band of monkeys that we found in one section.
They had a number of playful babies, but most surprising was when one of the adult monkeys casually walked over and occupied the bench right next to me (within arm's reach). Close up this breed (sorry - can't name it) has a set of impressive canines ... thoughts of rabbis went rapidly through my mind. However, and fortunately, the monkey was placid and shortly jumped up into the tree that was providing us with shade.Tired, needing a place out of the sun, and some food (even though we weren't particularly hungry) we elected to visit the same mall as we had spent some time in yesterday. There's probably not much to report about this - it was much quieter today (working day) than yesterday, we did a small amount of souveneir/omiyage shopping, got a light lunch, and then headed back.
Well, I don't really know whether we'll be able to make an entry tomorrow. The airline is providing us with day usage of a hotel room so it will depend on several factors such as how well we are rested after the flight, the hotel's amenities, what sightseeing we attempt, and whether
we can catchup with Simon.One thing I can say with certainty though is that we're both very much looking forward to getting home and seeing our family and friends again. See you guys soon!
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