10 July Singapore

A bit slow going this morning as jet lag and the late night kicked in.

We didn’t end up heading out till midday to meet Miles in town for a tour of his office, tour of the surrounding shops and lunch at Din Tai Fung for very very fresh Yum Cha – made to order

Here he is rolling out and weighing each piece to be passed onto the next person to create yummies (isn't this why it is called Yum Cha) like these 

After Miles went back to work we decided to try out the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) to get to the Labrador Nature Reserve.  A park that Miles told us about on the rocky cliffs in the south west, with panoramic views of the sea,

with nature trails that took us past World War 11 relics.

with explanatory story boards throughout the park.

There were squirrels in the park too but they were too quick for us to get a photo.

From the park we were able to see where they are reclaiming more land so that they can move some of the container shipping out from the central district.

We then went back to the MRT and continued on to the Tiger Balm Gardens, aka Haw Par Villa, 

an oriental themed park famed for depicting traditional Chinese legends and mythology. The gardens are named after the Aw brothers Boon Haw (Tiger) and Boon Par (Leopard) who first opened the park in 1937, and were the ones who concocted the famous pain relieving ointment Tiger Balm.

The gardens are obviously in need of maintenance in some places but are still very interesting and fascinating to walk around and look at all the statues

Ian posted naked/nude ladies and it raised some interesting and amusing comments, so I thought I would too!!!!

We decided to walk back from the Tiger Balm gardens to the Yacht club, as it wasn’t all that far.

Pretty view from the Yacht Club of the sun setting behind the oil rig when we got back

And behind Miles’ boat