Day 8 - Changi War Museum, Chinatown and Dinner at Equinox (with an amazing view)

We took the train and bus out to Changi to have a look at the War Museum.  My goodness - you just have no idea what atrocities took place during the war years.  Everyone walked around the museum in absolute silence, reading about what happened to the POW's, the local Singaporeans and in the end the perpetrators.  War is just so senseless at times!!

How some of the POW's survived was unbelievable - their conditions were atrocious.  When the Japanese surrendered in 1945 and the POW's were released and made their way home, some of them didn't recover from their experience....some remained ill for many years (disentary) - you couldn't blame any of them for not forgiving the Japanese for what they did - we can only hope that lessons are learned from War.......

Unfortunately we couldn't take photos inside the museum, but if interested you can look at the website www.changimuseum.com.sg

On our way back, we stopped off at Little India for another look around and went to the Tekka Market area - we passed by this shop that had a couple of pigeon visitors....

Looking down at the fresh food market....I have no idea how they keep fish, chicken and meat cold....it's a bit scary....these areas were quite smelly....I don't think disinfectant is something that they use to clean these places....

The top level of the Tekka Market Centre is the clothing and shoe section - there were some beautiful dresses there.....basically the whole floor was dedicated to this type of clothing....

We wanted to go our dinner while in Singapore and looked at doing a Cruise Dinner on the Cheng Ho Imperial Cruise boat, but unfortunately they were booked out to a private function,so we decided to go to the Equinox Restaurant on the 70th floor of the Swissotel - The Stamford Hotel.

This is the view at night....

Entree was $30 for scallops - well actually it was ONE scallop only.  It was presented beautifully in a scallop shell and when opened up.....voila....one single scallop!!  Yepah!!
We ordered a Seafood Platter for 2 - guess how much???   Go on try.....  S$185.00!!!
All up our bill came to S$432 - I know....very extravagant....but what the heck.....

We left the restaurant and went across the road to Raffles to go to the Long Bar and have their famous Singapore Sling - had to do that while we were there....

A short taxi ride back to the hotel and we chatted about taking the Cheng Ho Cruise in the morning before making out way to the airport - looks like the planned sleep in isn't going to happen.  We asked for a later checkout than 12pm and the hotel gladly agreed to 2pm and told us that we could go to the 3rd floor after that time to the dining room and pool area and if necessary have a shower before we left....they were always very accommodating.