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- Singapore
- Capital
- Singapore Dollar (SGD)
- Currency
- 4,300,419
- Population
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Singapore Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Singapore
Encountering heat again - Singapore
... Chan, was superb, and as anthropology student, he had a lot to say about the roles and status of the monastry in Singapore history. We have some fabulous photos and are armed with lots of information about Buddhism, Taoism and Confuscianism that we'd had ...
The Aftermath
... we just sat in the outside area of Bugis mall. It's pointless me trying to explain how good everything is at this juncture, Singapore is just a class place. The cinema was small and the film was half decent I guess. It didn't really matter I just ...
Singapore, Stadt der Superlative!
... 'zügigerweise ein kostenloses 90-tägiges Visa. Als wir den Stempel im Pass hatten hieß es auch schon: "Welcome to Singapore". Singapur ist ein extrem moderner Stadt- und auch zugleich Inselstaat mit 5 Millionen Einwohnern. Die erste Siedlung auf ...
From boiling Bali to sweaty Singapore
... were bloody expensive. Best value accommodation so far Prima cottages in Sanur Bali £26 a day and that includes breakfast. Most visited hotel , Hotel 81 Bencoolen Singapore, Good value compared with others in Singapore and really convenient location. ...
Southern most Point
... will Check into the Hotel 1929 for 2 nights, I know its going to be expensive there and have braced myself for it! Arriving at Singapore airport is good to see and the plane gives you a view of the bay with all the ships waiting to dock mainly oil ...
Exploring Singapore
... of the Orchard Road area) and everything was very expensive. We were happy to be headed to Bali the next day from Singapore's world-class airport. We had some more good food there, including Singaporean kaja toast, a noodle dish, and some chicken ...
Eat, sleep, eat, shop, eat, sleep, eat, eat...
... amazing and we have now eaten stingray. We were a little disapointed to find our favourite dish from the takeaway back home, Singapore rice noodles, doesn't actually exist, but all the other incredible food made up for it! As a former British colony, ...
off to Singapore (again)
... , as usual. The movies were pretty good, I watched 'Eclipse' and ‘keeping up with the kardashians’. We arrived in Singapore at 10.55pm Day 2: had rotti prata (Indian type of pancake you dip in curry, our favourite) and carrot cake (fried ...
Short visit to Singapore
So we have landed, walked to our new boarding gate and walked past all sorts of fascinating things. Wish I had a bit more time to have a look and do some ...
Singapore
at last we were travelling together..I had the business class from Geneva to London, and the club in heathrow. Mish had the two fighting boys and a 5 hour stopover in Paris CDG. Now is was my turn and ......they slept most of the way ...
Singapore
A really enjoyable couple of nights in lovely Singapore. We had a splendid night eating and drinking at Boat Quay the first night then the obligatory visit to Raffles Hotel for Singapore Slings the second, it was grand. After all this exertion (!), off ...
Dude Where's My Noodles??
... with great skyscrapers, beautifull trimmed trees and lawns and drivers who don't (for a change) want to kill each other. Downtown Singapore (for what was a brief visit) looked expensive but very nice indeed. As I was walking up to a restaurant, there ...
..goodbye Asia, and back to the real world!
... juice, and driving crazy around the islands, and 1000 things more... I finished my Dive Master course and took the train to Singapore! And here I'm! in the most civilized city in the whole South East Asia!!! (even more than Hong Kong!) ... no wonders ...
Made it to Singapore
... . The lines inside were pretty long and we worried about our bus leaving us. As we came out, our worries had become reality. Welcome to Singapore! No bus, no money, and no clue what to do. We tried to stop and call a few places about a room. That didn't ...
Singapore
... advantage that we could enjoy the great scenery with our heads turned back without getting travelsick ;-) Giant-Merlion (Singapore’s landmark), Universal Studios and iFly (fly freely in an airstream). Stunning, brandnew wooden boardwalk back ...
Velkommen inn i hundens aar!!
... konkluderer med at man kan ikke tro paa alt man hoerer! Vi har i grunnen sett det meste som kan oppdrives av severdigheter i Singapore, alt av butikker og spisesteder er stengt pga Kinesisk nyttaar. Men imorgen er det vanlig dag igjen og da skal vi rett ...
Singapore
... We know we weren't in the Billiards Bar but still, standards are lower than we had reckoned on. We had a great afternoon at the Singapore Zoo though and later when it got dark we went on to the Night Safari. It was busy but fantastic to smell all the ...
Singapore
... that evening we go to the Night Safari at the Singapore 'Zoo'. The place is a huge wildlife park set in the Singapore rainforest. The animals that live there are nocturnal so you get to see them at their most active. The people who ...
Food and Shopping
... , in Asia. Singapore is very similar to Argentina in a way, they are developed versions of their respective continents. Singapore could be any major city in the world, but with a wonderful nulti-ethnic twist. I stayed in Little India, ...
Singapore
... is out of the window. Seen lots of things - night safari, Sentosa island, eaten lots of nice food... Had a Singapore Sling in Raffles Hotel. They has piles of free monkey nuts which were awesome, but there were two pigeons inside the ...
Singapore Sling
... of Singapore, including Chinatown, Little India, Arab Street, the hundreds of shopping malls, Raffles Hotel, City Hall, Botanical gardens, Singapore Flyer (5 metres taller than the London Eye) and many more. The places we did stop was the Night ...
Singapore Bound
... there are a number of reasons I think why. The facility also runs as a company, they have a removal company (voted Singapore's best a few years ago) a furniture shop, and very recently they've just built a restaurant called Goshen (biblical land, ...
Right then I made it
Flying into Singapore was the most beautiful thing ever! We had been chasing the sunset and it just beat us there. The sky had a big red gash and the city was intensly lit up & blobs of boat light on the harbour. AND orange lightening forking across the ...
Home time
As I packed my bag for the last time on our trip I thought back to every other time I had stuffed my socks down the side of the bag and just shoved everything in. I made sure all the delicate things were wrapped extra well as we would be going on several ...
Chinatown and Raffles
... shells on the floor and then crunch your way through them as you walk out - a very strange (and probably British) custom. So that's Singapore done and dusted - very appealing, but I wish it had been a bit cooler and I will come back if I have a lottery ...
Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park + Night Safari
... at 6pm when the bird park closed. I really enjoyed the Zoo and would really recommend that people visit if they are in Singapore. Apparently Monday is the quietest day and first thing in the morning there was hardly anybody around, so I had the place ...
Formula 1
I had not planned to attend F1 because I researched online for tickets and they were extrememly expensive ($300+). Some people would buy tickets for the entire weekend, which was three days, then sell their first day ticket since there are only practice ...