Beautiful Mexican Ship - Cuauhtemoc

Over the weekend, we had the chance to visit a very beautiful ship. It was a mexican ship. The Mexican Navy's Cuauhtémoc, which arrived at VivoCity’s port on Wednesday morning (Jul 19) but it left this morning to another country. Commanded by Captain Rafael Antonio Lagunes Arteaga, the Armada Republic Mexicana (ARM) Cuauhtémoc – which began its journey from its home port, Acapulco Guerrero on Feb 6 – is on a nine-month long goodwill voyage around the region. Read more from Channel News Asia.

My World Tuesday - Cruise

Wow the cruise ship looked so big from the rooftop of Vivo City. I hope to go on a cruise ship one day. Above the cruise ship are cable cars that goes to and fro Sentosa. The new cruise terminal will be ready by end of this year and will be located at Marina South.

Some of the cruise ship will docked at Penang. You can view my travel blog where the cruise ship docked at in Penang.

The ferry in the front background is the Batam Fast that I took when I visited Batam, Indonesia. I took this photo from harbour front.

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My World Tuesday - Ferry Terminal - Trip to Batam, Indonesia

As mentioned during last week, My World Tuesday, I was going on a short trip. The answer for the question posted last week, was Batam, Indonesia. I went Island Hopping during the weekend.

Hop over to Batam Island in Indonesia. Batam is very near Singapore. It was just only about 45 mintures ferry ride from Singapore to Batam.

The queue to board the ferry that I was in during the weekend, was indeed long. But it took very fast to get all the people onto the ferry. Very fast and comfortable ferry ride.

There are so many different companies operating the different types of ferries to Batam. I will talked more about Batam in my travel blog. So if you are interested in my travel story abroad, please hop over to my travel blog.

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My World Tuesday - Cruise/Ferry

This is the cruise and ferry terminal located in Harbour Front Centre.

The cruise centre has bigger and beautiful luxury ships that goes to nowhere (means on international water only), to Malaysia, Thailand and other parts of Asia.

Some goes on the cruise so that they can use the casino aboard the ships but with two casinos now on Singapore Land, I guess it somehow affect the business of the cruise ships.

I have not try the cruise before but I might do so one day. I actually prefer the plane.

The ferry terminal has services to Batam and other parts of Indonesia. Look at the signboard that reads CIP Lounge. I thought it should be VIP (Very Important People). But on checking, I realised that CIP meant Commercially Important Passenger.

I will be out of Singapore this weekend, guess where I am going? Answer will be post, when I return from my short trip. :)

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Skywatch Friday - Changi Boardwalk Part 5-Sailing boats

Continued from Changi Boardwalk Part 4, this post will be all about sailing boats. There is a sailing club over here too.

It was very cloudy and I thought it was going to rain but good thing, the clouds soon clear.

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Singapore River

What is happening at the river front? Lots of things happening. It is very interesting, we just sit and looked at the many things happening with lots of tourists hiding from the hot sun, wedding couples taking photo, etc. We just sat at the cosy couch at starbuck and sip nice drinks and watched the day go by. What a way to pass our time and destressing ourselves (yipeee).

Singapore River front with lots of building in the background in financial district.

This is the underneath of the bridge. It is so shady and make a good home for homeless (can shelter from the sun and rain). But not sure if it can protect the homeless from being caught by the police.

Bum boat ride to view Singapore River and its surroundings.

Tourists taking shelter underneath the bridge from the hot sun of Singapore (poor tourists). Well we are only 2 degree north of equator, what do you expect (hehehe).
Favourite place to take photo of wedding couple, of course the photographer is taking from another angle. But when the integrated resort is completed, I think it would be a very nice scenery.

Hey this is the venue for this year National Day Celebration. The red seats are where the VIP are sitting. The ferris wheel is still under construction. When completed, one can have a bird eye view of Singapore. I heard that it is fully booked for next year.

Bum Boats Singapore

In Old Singapore, bumboats were extensively used for transport purposes along the Singapore River, Rochore and Kallang Rivers, and also along the coast of the mainland and the other nearby islands.
But today, there are few bumboats left. Bumboats are converted as river-taxis ferry passengers mainly tourists along this historic waterway, Singapore River, for unique sightseeing and pleasure rides up and down river. Pickup and disembarkation points are along Boat Quay and Clake Quay.
The bigger bumboats are converted to restaurants. The buildings along Singapore River used to be warehouses but they are now converted to pubs and restaurants.

There are several bridges of different designs along Singapore River. Picture shows Read Bridge.

The Swedish Gotheborg

I went to Vivo City again on New Year's Day 2007. Was surprised to see a beautiful and nice ship.The Swedish Ship Gotheborg is an exact replica of the Swedish sailing vessel which undertook its third expedition to China in 1743 to 1745.