Star Cruises Superstar Virgo seen from the cable car from Sentosa

Last weekend, I was invited by AirPhil Express to experience their  new AdvenTour Package offering they had call “Fly and Sail”. In partnership with Star Cruises, the Fly and Sail is a four-day Adventure Tour Package where once can Fly to Singapore and go for a cruise to Malaysia for only P24,888 per person. It’s my first time to actually try a cruise and it was pretty fun. I’ll be writing about the experience starting next week in ironwulf.net En Route. In the meantime if you would like to know more of the details, read on.

AirPhil Express Fly & Sail Package

Selling Date: August 10 to September 20, 2011
Travel Date: August 23, 2011 to March 13, 2012

For as low as Php 24,888.00 per person (based on Quad Sharing Room)

Inclusions:

• Rountrip Airfare (Manila-Singapore-Manila)
• Transfers (Airport-Hotel-Port-Airport)
• Overnight Hotel Accommodation (Hotel Fragrance Oasis or Rose)
• 3 Days/2 Nights accommodation on-board Super Star Virgo with full board meals
• All access to Super Star Virgo’s facilities and live Entertainment
• Fuel Surcharges, Cruise Surcharges, PH & SG tax & Ticket Service Charge

You can check out more details on the Pricing options and itinerary on this AdvenTour Package PDF

Singapore Orchard Road Underground (Olympus E-P1, 17mm M.Zuiko f2.8, ISO 200, 1/6sec, Pinhole)

Singapore and sanitation seems to go together in this little country. Above the streets everything seems normal. Most well to do people walking around and shopping. But life here is not all that dandy, the cost of living is high that some people can’t keep up. They don’t have greased homeless people like here in the Philippines but there are people in Singapore who are trying to survive by alms under the street.

Busy Pedestrian Underground (Olympus E-P1, 17mm f2.8 M.Zuiko, ISO 200, 1/15sec, Pinhole

It is interesting to see these street musicians yearning for a few dollars. Surprisingly some of them are very good that they could perform on stage. Also on the underground I saw an old lady in wheel chairs selling packed tissue papers. And I think I saw a foreigner playing his guitar on the street with his huge pack. A traveler who ran out of money?

Passing by (Olympus E-P1, 17mm f2.8, ISO 400, 1/20sec, Pinhole)

It’s interesting to see these scenarios. Reality is, even for a first world country like Singapore, there are still people struggling to make a living. When I was shooting these photos, I made sure my shutter speed was slow to capture the motion of people passing by. Since it’s a busy pedestrian tunnel, I can’t put any tripod there so the image stabilization helped. I was composing the picture holding the camera on waist level.

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