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Singapore

It 's not a place, and Singapore' a mark on a map, a city 'virtual goods in transit is a huge custard enclosed in millions container if the same 'them. And then, skyscrapers, parks and shopping malls, and everything you need for a perfect image of a global city, like a scale model just released by a firm of architects. Here is home to many holding companies governing the plundering of the forests of Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, even the Amazon. Paper, timber, palm oil go from here in the form of waterfalls numerical bounce between bank accounts around the world. But there is no 'trace of chaos here. Order, cleanliness and consumption, commandments of an Asian free market capitalism and authoritarian. Here, even the concrete piers of the viaducts are painted pure white, and is' strictly forbidden chewing gum gum in public. Only fragments in the city 'old place and remember that every' fact of people: a Buddhist temple suffocated by skyscrapers, a tavern in China, an alley in the back room, but they are only fleeting dejavou, transparency elusive.

And then, away, back to the neighbor across the coast of Sumatra, and his suffering the forests. But there are flights via Pekanbaru it 'via Jakarta. You have to go by sea: ferry to Batam, and then another boat to Tembilahan, and by road up to Rengat.

arriving in Batam, we find that the boat leaves from Tembilahan to another port on the opposite side of the island. The air and 'red-hot from the sun. Well, load the luggage and look for a bus that brought us'. We find unlucky, a bus that takes us through a road lined with swaying hills, lakes and small woods. But when we discover that the ferry now he's' gone. We have to wait until the next day.

Cosi 'spend the night in Batam, city' quiet and sleepy port, full of shops and dance halls frequented by Chinese merchants and misunderstandings Malay prostitutes. But it 's apparent sleep. Singapore's younger sister, received the status of free zone development that should ensure a blazing. Immigrants from all over flock to Indonesia in droves entire city 'of terraced houses were built on hills.