With the expiration of my Chinese visa at the end of June, and a general antsiness that I hadn't felt in a while, I decided to do a little traveling abroad for a few months. With the Asia Yoga Conference in Hong Kong not starting until about the 5th of July, I had some time to kill before heading to that city. I decided it would be nice to finally see some of Singapore.

The city immediately strikes you with how clean it is, and the air is gloriously unpolluted. The city is a reasonably small island nation (not quite as big as Hong Kong), and doesn't have a lot of domestic industry beyond banking and financial services.

The downside to this is that the city is unbelievably hot and muggy. I mean, 35C and 95% humidity every single day. Your basic rule of thumb: never go outdoors. Ever. If you have to, run to the next air conditioned place as quickly as humanly possible. Even in the evening when I went out to meet some friends once, they were wearing tank tops and swim trunks, basically, and we were still all sweating like pigs.

But there's lots of nice stuff to see in the city, great food, some good shopping, and a zoo that isn't depressing or creepy.