My Escapes Singapore Return to "Lion City" Changi Airport

Changi Airport

I was leaving Singapore...
Leaving on a jetplane... 777 straight to Istanbul!
But the airport has fascinated me, can't omit mentioning. In fact, the Changi Airport by itself is a travel attraction.

Changi Airport is Singapore's large international aerial hub. In fact, it contributes largely to the country's GDP...

But it's not just any kind of airport, it has something special about it... you'll see in my photos.

Green vegetation, small park-like areas, even ponds with koi fish swimming in them are found under the roof of this mega structure.

Changi Airport is pretty green... At it feels so fresh in there.

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport is somehow similar, but it has much more vast green decks.

This wasn't an "ordinary airport" that I was passing through. Lots of interesting stuff all around...

Interestingly, only my 4th Changi Airport experience offered me these views. Nor when I had first arrived, nor when I departed for Kuala Lumpur, nor when I returned from there - I didn't see anything from all this.

Obviously, I wasn't at the same terminal...

The airport is huge and there are 3 terminals.

Besides the green areas, there were lots of places to eat at and - funny mechanical box-enclosed games to play with (as you will see lower on my photos).

I spent a lot of time at the duty free shops (terribly expensive airport shops, as usual!), just because I wanted to lay my hands on a nice white Merlion statue - yearning for a replica of the original.

However, only a few very poor quality statues were available (with chipped paint).

One particular restaurant had a vast number of food-like statues exposed. I wasn't sure if it was real food preserved with some sort of a special transparent cover. Or, whether they used plastic mock-ups to present their menus...

Not a bad idea, especially at an airport...

The drinks, the pasta, the shrimps... they all looked like "wow". Tempting, even... but I had no time for munching and brunching.

Everything exposed had a shiny outer layer, but they felt amazingly real. Reason for me to believe that at least a large part of what I saw there was actually real food, but somehow preserved to hinder decay.

Interestingly enough, there are 6 active (separate) airports on the island, but only Changi and Seletar are public.

Changi Airport has registered 53.7 million passengers in 2013, this makes it the 5th busies airport in the World and the second busiest in Asia.

Ah well, farewell Singapore, I was bound for Istanbul!

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