Gardens by the Bay
The free outdoor gardens are themed around plants important to Singapore history and culture.
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Singapore: 50 places in Atlas — Singapore. Expect top sights, nature, food and markets. Mark where you have been and plan your trip on your own map.
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Botanic Gardens
This {{UNESCO}} was once considered among the finest botanical gardens in the British Empire, and it is still a firm favourite for visitors and locals alike.
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Night Safari
A completely separate wildlife park situated near the Singapore Zoo, this is the world's first wildlife park built to be viewed at night.
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Sands SkyPark
Singapore's single most dramatic landmark, the SkyPark defies gravity, perched 55 stories above the ground like a surfboard on top of the three hotel towers.
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Singapore Zoo
This rainforest zoo is home to over 3,000 animals from over 316 species.
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Little India is, as the name promises, the centre for the large Indian community in Singapore.
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The gardens house two cooled conservatories housed in giant glass domes, the Flower Dome simulating a dry-climate area and the Cloud Forest for more tropical highlands plants.
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Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
At 166 metres this is Singapore's highest point — if you don't count the city's skyscrapers.
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The largest and one of the oldest mosques in Singapore, the building is easily identified thanks to its golden domes, but there's not much to see inside.
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Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
Towering above southern Chinatown, this four-storey temple was completed only in 2007.
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Housed in the historic Empress Place Building, this is one of Singapore's newest, largest and best-presented museums.
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National Art Gallery
Opened in 2015 in the former City Hall and Supreme Court buildings, it oversees the world’s largest public collection of Singapore and Southeast Asian art, consisting of over 8,000 artworks.
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Pulau Ubin
Singapore's flashback to yesteryear, a little island off the northern coast where people still live in fishing villages in houses on stilts.
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Singapore's official symbol, 8.6 metres tall and weighing 70 tons, spouts water daily on the south bank of the mouth of the Singapore river.
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Singapore's Chinatown is the traditional Chinese quarters of town, and while the entire city is largely Chinese these days, the area does retain some of its own charm.
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Formerly Singapore History Museum, it has been refurbished from top to bottom and a new wing was added.
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Singapore's oldest and most important Hindu temple and worth a visit for the intricately carved gopuram, which gave adjacent "Pagoda Street" its name.
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National Orchid Garden
This is where you can spot Singapore's national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid, and many more.
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Thian Hock Keng Temple
The oldest Chinese temple in Singapore, built by the Hokkien community, dating back to 1821, although the structure was thoroughly refurbished in 2000.
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MacRitchie Reservoir
Rather more exciting than it sounds, this serene artificial lake is surrounded by acres of virgin jungle.
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A nicely done up Victorian-style hawker centre, but a little pricier and hence quieter than most.
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Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
If you want to see a mangrove forest, this is your chance.
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The Southern Ridges Walk is a stroll across the hills of southern Singapore.
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Bird Paradise
Opened 2023 to replace the old Bird Park in Jurong, this is Asia’s largest bird park with a collection of more than 5,000 birds from 380 species, divided into 10 geographically themed zones ranging from Papuan jungle to African savannah and Antarctic penguins.
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Formerly a branch of the ACM, now reborn as a standalone museum dedicated to the exuberantly colourful culture of the Peranakans, the Malay-Chinese and Malay-Indian traders who had a major impact on the Straits Settlements.
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Haw Par Villa
Formerly the Tiger Balm Gardens, this is the former site of the villa of the Tiger Balm brothers, Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, now packed with an incredibly bizarre assortment of statues illustrating Chinese legends and moral values.
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Sentosa is an island just off the southern coast of Singapore.
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Bugis and Kampong Glam are districts of Singapore, just to the east of the central business district.
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Light and sound shows at night.
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The first Universal Studios theme park in Southeast Asia, but it's quite a bit smaller than the others and can get quite crowded, so expect long lines or pay extra for the Express Pass.
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ArtScience Museum
ArtScience Museum is part of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort.
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Singapore Oceanarium
One of the world’s largest aquariums that is home to majestic manta rays, enormous goliath grouper, Napoleon wrasse, and other marine animals.
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Once the site of ancient Malay royalty and later a British military base, Fort Canning Park now offers a mix of heritage sites, lush greenery, and panoramic city views.
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Changi Chapel and Museum
Singapore's memorial to the notorious World War II Japanese POW camp, the setting of James Clavell's King Rat.
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The Singapore River forms a central artery in Singapore's densely packed Central Business District.
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Housed in an old shophouse, this excellent museum chronicles how Chinatown came to be and the privation suffered by early migrants.
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War museum at the old Ford Motor Factory, where British Lt-General Percival surrendered Singapore to the Japanese.
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Battle Box
A former bunker that was the HQ of the British military forces in Malaya during World War II, now turned into an air-conditioned museum complete with animatronic figures retelling the events of the days before surrender.
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Singapore's tallest public housing project has a 50th-storey viewing deck that offers some of the best city views around at a fraction of the cost of the Singapore Flyer. $5, but payment must be made by ez-link card; enter via Block 1G, Level 1.
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A former railway line which has been turned into a 24km bicycle and hiking trail.
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A branch of the famous bar/restaurant KU DE TA in Bali, although it had to change name over legal issues.
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Esplanade Theatres on the Bay
Singapore's equivalent of Sydney's famous Opera House, except that the two-lobed spiky Singaporean version deliberately bears a striking resemblance to the durian, a tropical fruit related to the jackfruit which is notorious for its sharp odour.
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Two of the larger super trees are linked by a skyway, giving visitors a 50-m view off the ground.
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Renowned as the world's first hawker stall to earn a Michelin star.
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Muthu's has a respectable claim to coming up with the idea of fish head curry; now run by the founder's son, this shop continues to draw the crowds.
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East Coast Park
The largest park in Singapore and a highly popular hangout for couples, groups of friends and families.
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It is known for its seafood, but it is one of the few places in Singapore where touts and overcharging can be a nuisance — double-check the price of any seafood you order.
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Komala Vilas
A Singaporean institution featuring purely vegetarian Indian food, the masala dosa here is epic.
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Song Fa Bak Kut Teh
Popular bak kut teh specialist serving light, peppery Teochew-style pork rib soup, best eaten with salted vegetables, dough fritters and rice.
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Zam Zam
One of Singapore's best-known restaurants for all sorts of Indian Muslim food.
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