Cruising to Nowhere
If you want to leave Singapore and play tourist these days, there’s only one real way to do it: get on a cruise boat and spend a couple of days […]
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The Largest Cemetery in Singapore
In Singapore’s northwest corner, sprawling across land once used to grow rubber, coconut, and pineapple, sits Singapore’s biggest cemetery. This is the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery Complex, a 318 hectare […]
A Bus to the North: the 975
If you want to really get out and explore the remote corners of Singapore, there may be no better way to cover more ground than on the public bus. To […]
The Wildlife of Pasir Ris
Just west of Singapore’s Changi Airport, you’ll find an unexpected warren of mangrove swamps … … elegant tree-lined paths … … and a long, thin stretch of white sand and […]
Pocket Gardens by the Bay
The Flower Dome at Gardens By the Bay is the largest glass greenhouse in the world, and its ever-changing display of flowers never fails to impress. The latest exhibit at […]
Singapore by MRT: The East West Line, Tanjong Pagar to Pasir Ris
The plan: Continue my adventure of visiting every MRT (subway) stop in Singapore, seeing how the island changes from one stop to the next. Here I took on the second […]
The Last Shophouses of Orchard Road
Orchard Road, Singapore’s most famous shopping street, is best known for its glitzy shopping malls, towering structures of steel and glass that stretch on block after block. But if you […]
Riding the 117: Punggol to Sembawang
I’m used to riding the bus in Singapore to get from point A to point B, but on Saturday, some friends and I hopped on the 117 to take a […]
The Shophouses of Blair Plain
If you want to see dozens of beautiful examples of traditional Singapore shophouse architecture, it’s worth heading to the tiny neighborhood now known as Blair Plain. In the early 1990s, […]
10 Reasons to Visit Joo Chiat
\There are many wonderful neighborhoods in Singapore, but one of the most interesting has to be Joo Chiat (also known as Katong). Singapore’s first “heritage town,” Joo Chiat is home […]
