Singapore

Singapore wins our (highly coveted…) best all-around city in the universe award. Like a real-life Asia Disneyland with monorails, cable cars, massive sparkling shopping centers, beautifully maintained temples, impeccably dressed residents, tons of great ethnic restaurants, and a subtle british-colonial-jungle-explorer feel, the city was just a 5 hour bus ride from our last stop in kuala lumpur, but seemed like it was on a completely different continent than the rest of s.e. asia. it was probably a little too perfect and orderly to warrant anything but a few day stop and we didn’t want to get too comfortable and accidentally spit in public, chew gum, drink water on the metro, or… urinate in an elevator – (yes, urination in an elevator is specifically forbidden by singapore law) – and wind up in jail with a caning sentence, but it was great place to spend the last few days of our round-the-world-in-150-days adventure. Next stop – Chipotles - Denver.