16th March 2009

Today was a day of tremendous contrasts, during the morning we visited the Changi Museum, the actual prison no longer exists. Nearby is a modern but separate men and womens prison and behind is a Singaporean air force base. The whole place has very grim and distressing feel at the massive suffering that Allied POWS and Singaporean citizens suffered. If you want to learn more about this museum and see some pictures go to – www. changimuseum.com . On the way there, in contrast we saw areas of condominiums worth about a million Singaporean dollars.
In a complete change of mood in the evening we did the Night Safari. Occupying over 40 hectares of dense secondary forest we took a 3.2 km tram ride covering terrain ranging from the rocky Himalayan foothills to the grassy plains of Equatorial Africa. We were fortunate to see lots of different animals such as giraffes, elephants, hyenas, deer, lions. etc. If any of you have visited the Animal Kingdom at Disney in Florida, then you will know what it was like. We got back to the hotel quite late and Rosalyn and I were tired so we went straight to bed.