Singapore

With its fascinating history and cultural mix, Singapore has evolved into a vibrant Western-style city with an Asian heart.

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Singapore revels in the huge variety of its people and the unique culture they have created. Tree-lined boulevards, glass skyscrapers and stately mansions, as well as some of Asia’s best cuisine all make up Singapore. It’s ideal for first-time visitors to the Far East – different enough to be fascinating, but with enough Western influence to be comfortably familiar. The main thoroughfare is Orchard Road, with shops galore! It links the northern residential quarter with the modern Marina Square area: here you’ll find large shopping malls and hotels offering great harbour views. Getting around is easy – the underground (MRT) and bus systems are quick, cheap and simple to use. Visit Little India, Chinatown and Arab Street, or take the cross-harbour cable car to the beaches and theme parks of Sentosa Island – the variety of attractions is amazing. The entire state is compact enough to be explored exhaustively in just a few days.

Singapore is just 136km north of the equator, which means that you should be prepared for a hot and sticky time whenever you go; temperatures hover around 30°C throughout the year. November, December and January are usually the coolest and the wettest months, but rain can fall all year round. July usually records the lowest annual rainfall.

Singapore’s central geographical location means short flying times to most of the Asian destinations: Hong Kong is 3 hours 45 minutes away; Phuket and Koh Samui 1 hour 45 minutes and Penang just over an hour’s flight away.

Sentosa Island
Today, Sentosa is Singapore’s premier island resort getaway with multi-faceted appeal, teeming with events all year round. Just 15 minutes from the city, it is a unique blend of leisure and recreational facilities including family attractions, sea sports, golf as well as hotel accommodation and retreats. A canopy of secondary rainforest covers 70 per cent of the 500-hectare island and is home to monitor lizards, monkeys, peacocks, parrots as well as other native fauna and flora. Sentosa has a 3.2-kilometre stretch of white sand beach, and is the only location in Singapore to offer beachfront accommodation and over 670 hotel rooms with full facilities.

Conveniently linked by a kilometre-long causeway to the southern tip of Malaysia, the tiny city-state of Singapore makes a gentle gateway for many first-time travellers to Asia, providing Western standards of comfort alongside traditional Chinese, Malay and Indian enclaves. Its downtown areas are dense with towering skyscrapers and gleaming shopping malls, yet the island retains an abundance of nature reserves and lush, tropical greenery.

Beyond the city, is the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, the splendid Singapore Zoological Gardens, complete with night safari tours, and the oriental Disneyworld attractions of Haw Par Villa. Offshore, you'll find Sentosa, the island amusement arcade which is linked to the south coast by a short causeway (and cable car), and Pulau Ubin, off the east coast, where the inhabitants continue to live a traditional kampung (village) life.

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