An Insider’s Checklist Guide To
Singapore (click
for downloadable version)
| Sights
Worth Seeing
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Zoo/Night
Safari
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Botanical
Gardens /Orchid Gardens
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Pulau
Ubin Cycling
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Central
Beach on Sentosa
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Bird
Singing at Tiong Bahru (Seng Poh Rd)
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Haw
Par Villa
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Asian
Civilisations Museum
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Marina
Promenade (Singapore skyline)
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Temples
in Little India (watch a ceremony)
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Waterloo
Chinese Temple
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Sultan
Mosque area
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Katong
Bakery (East Coast Rd)
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MacRitchie
Reservior Loop (11km)
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Sungei
Buloh Wetland Reserve
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Jurong
Bird Park |
Great Secret Hideaways & Places To Drive To
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Lim
Chu Kang Jetty
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Sembawang
Park
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Kranji
Way
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Jurong
Island Highway
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Mandai
Rd (stop along waters of Upper Seletar Reservoir)
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Upper/Lower
Pierce Reservoir
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Perimeter
Rd (Changi – see planes take off)
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Little
Guilin (at Bukit Batok)
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Labrador
Park
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Dairy
Farm (Upp Bukit Timah Rd)
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Telok
Blangah Hill/Mt Faber
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Bukit
Brown/ Bidadari Cemetery
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Bukit
Timah Nature Reserve
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Turf
Club (Kranji)
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Fisherman’s
Village (Pasir Ris) |
“Must-Try”
Local Foods
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Roti
Prata (Jalan Kayu)
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Teh
Tarik (at Jalan Kayu)
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Black
Pepper Crab (Eng Seng at Joo Chiat Place)
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Chilli
Crab (Long Beach at East Coast Park)
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Delhi
Restaurant (Little India)
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Curry
Fish Head (Race Course Rd)
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Beef
Noodles (Geylang Lor 9)
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Durian/Tau
Huay (Geylang Lor 9)
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Katong
Laksa (49 East Coast Rd)
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Traditional
Hainanese Chicken Rice (Purvis St & Mei Chin Rd)
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Fish
Head Steamboat (Whampoa off Balestier Rd)
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Ice
Kachang (Tanjong Pagar Hawker)
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Cze
Cha (Joo Heng, Joo Chiat Rd)
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Rojak
(Bros’ Rojak, Clementi Central)
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Satay
(Old Airport Rd)
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Popiah
(Beach Rd Shaw Tower) |
| Shophouses
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Tanjong
Pagar Conservation Area (Club St, Blair Rd, Amoy St)
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Mohamed
Sultan Area
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Little
India
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Geylang
& Sims Ave
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Joo
Chiat Area
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Peranakan
Place (Orchard)
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Arab
Street
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Experience
Singapore
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Take
MRT to surburbs (one of the new towns e.g. Toa Payoh and see HDB flats)
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Walk
Down Orchard Rd & around City Hall area. Go Sim Lim Sq for electronic
goods.
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Eat
breakfast at Tiong Bahru Market (join the longest queues)
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Flea
Market @ Clark Quay
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Thieves
Market @ Weld Rd
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Drink
beer along Boat Quay
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Cable
car from Mt Faber to Sentosa
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See
wet market at Chinatown
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Inline
skate & windsurf @ East Coast
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Zouk
@ Jiak Kim St
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Clubbing
@ Mohamed Sultan |
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Email me if you have any suggestions or need to know exactly where these places are.
The street directory might help.
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Additional stuff from another (street-smart) Singaporean (taken verbatim from email):
".... if you want to check out a more underground aspect of the clubbing scene you could also look at the drum and bass parties (www.kondense.com) and the parties on sentosa's beaches (you'll have to pick up an I-S at one of those Holland Village cafes for the latest - these parties run all night coz there's no alcohol rule off the mainland - you should definitely check out Zouk Out if you can) but otherwise its hard to find afterhours clubs. Some bars you could check out: alleybar at peranakan place, post bar (fullerton), altivo on top of mount faber (nice view), and the whole strip of nice places on club street. Don't know if you noticed but singaporeans are obsessed with food, the thing singaporeans do after 3 is to go out for a nice post clubbing supper - some nice places:
1. Geylang - one of our
red light district/food places - this is real singapore - yong he bean curd
at the corner of lorong 9 and geylang.
This is generally a nice place to hang out for a nice late dinner too - the
beef kuay teow next to yong he is one of the best.
2. mitre hotel on killiney road (there's a cardboard sign on the road) - it's a run down hotel which serves alcohol past 3... The place is falling to pieces and very weird - but kinda fun...
3. the strip of great places on upper bukit timah road opposite beauty world shopping center (just tell the cab driver "opp beauty world") - try the paper prata at al azhar... And the "milo dinosaur" - ice milo with a pile of milo powder on top.
4. 24 hour kopi tiam food courts - lau pa sat downtown, and the hotel meridien kopi tiam near the istana. Not so atmospheric, but convenient.
Other places you should check out (earlier, for dinner):
1. Niel Road/tanjong pagar area - korean restaurants and "popular" along neil which has good northern chinese dumplings
2. geylang area (late
night Fruit stands along sims ave - be adventurous!) - geylang road - where
the food places are - the even
numbered lorongs are the red light district... Worth exploring - go with a
group if you want.
3. upper east coast road
4. tiong bahru market (day and early evening)
5. Jalan Wong Ah Fook night market - in Johor Bahru - DO NOT LEAVE WITHOUT going here! Take a 170 bus and walk to the market from the checkpoint. Get there just before 7pm... Fantastic. Order food from the most crowded stalls.
Also - things you should check out if you can
1. Anything event that happens on Fort Canning - great place for cultural stuff... WOMAD, BUTS etc
2. Film Fests... Cheap and good - had 360 films last year at the sin film fest
3. concerts at the esplanade - its ugly, but acoustics are supposed to be good
4. travel around the region
- southeast asia is really diverse and super cheap to get to from singapore
- all the usual tourist traps like
thailand and bali - but you should also check out Burma, cambodia (extremely
magical), Sulawesi - its safe, trust me (just avoid the middle bit), vietnam,
laos, hong kong, kl (that's a real party town)... Check out the classifieds
in the straits times for cheap tickets... V v
reasonable...
Did I mention diving? If you don't you should start now... Best beach in the area - long beach on pulau perhentian kecil, terengganu, malaysia - 8 hour overnight bus ride... But its paradise...
check out http://www.angelfire.com/sports/dive/ for stuff on diving in malaysia
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