Rain vortex and light show at Changi Airport

It’s about time I wrote about my Europe trip from last September.

We transited in Singapore, and on the journey out, we had about four hours in Changi Airport. Perfect for checking out the Jewel.

I didn’t know it before, but the Jewel is actually a shopping mall in the airport. And they even have a Pokemon Center there! I only knew of the rain vortex which is the most iconic photo backdrop of the airport.

They have a light show at the rain vortex, and I checked the schedule before going. Upon arrival at the airport, we saw an area selling Pokemon stuff (a pop-up store, maybe?) and I had to take a quick look. After that, we headed to the Jewel (after wasting some time on some messy searching of how to change our flight seat, which I won’t go into) just in time to watch the light show.

suddenly saw this while making our way to the next terminal / the Jewel

need a photo from behind to show the bulb, the fire, and the foamy tail!

some of the items

And here's the Jewel!

The lights were already changing colour when we arrived a few minutes before the light show was supposed to start, and we thought that it had already started.

But nope, after a few minutes there was a loud announcement about the light show, and then it started with loud music! (It turned out we were standing just next to one of the speakers :P )

Here you can see the colours changing really slowly. 

And this is the light show! (The file exceeds the Blogger size limit, so I had to upload it to YouTube.)

Note: The colours in the video are not really the same as what we see in real life. If I remember correctly, the reds (and mainly purples) become more vibrant, probably because of the camera catching infra-reds.

Note 2: YouTube tells me that the song played during the light show is JJ Lin's As I Believe. 

After that, we found another place where there was actually a better view of the vortex, except that the shuttle train's track cuts in front of it.

The glass at the bottom (with the wooden rail) is actually the "fence" at the edge of the shopping mall's walkway. I think we were on the first floor, just one floor above ground.

a selfie, so that we can have a picture together

Then we went to the base of the vortex.

Water was splashing everywhere! So there were signboards telling us to be careful of the wet floor. I didn't expect that; I thought the water would be contained, by a taller fence, maybe?

There was this display nearby that was changing colours too. Here are two of the colours: 

On our return journey, the transit was shorter so we didn't go to the Jewel any more. (Plus going to the Jewel meant clearing immigration; we even had to prepare the digital pass for foreign visitors.) In the airport, we walked past this pretty area which we hadn't seen before.

fake blue sky

everyone was taking photos; I gave up trying to get a photo with no one else in the foreground...

Since this post is getting rather long, I shall keep the Pokemon Center pictures for the next post!