A Day Trip From Aix: Visiting Jouques
There’s nothing like stumbling on a charming small town, and Jouques definitely fits the bill. To be clear, there’s nothing particular to do in Jouques. There are no museums, the […]
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7 Reasons to Visit Bad Kohlgrub
1) A Goldilocks Town With just 2,500 people, Bad Kohlgrub is not too big, not too small — for a visitor, it’s just right. It has one grocery store, one […]
A Sustainable Park: Tampines Eco Green
Singapore’s parks tend toward the highly manicured and perfectly sculpted. You’ll usually find crowded parking lots alongside plenty of concrete and potable water. But in the early 2000s, someone had […]
Walking in the Trees: The Southern Ridges
In Singapore, there’s rarely such a thing as a simple hike; instead, there are hike experiences. It’s hard to argue with the results, at least if you travel down to […]
6 Singapore Cemeteries
It’s not easy to find places to bury people in one of the densest countries in the world, but if you look, you can find wonderful old (and relatively new) […]
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 […]
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, […]
Singapore’s Rail Trail
In 1869, officials began planning a rail line that would take goods from Singapore’s rich southern port and bring back valuable natural resources like tin and rubber in return. The […]
The Coast-to-Coast Trail: Bukit Timah to Jurong
We tackled Singapore’s 36-kilometer Coast-to-Coast trail over the course of three weekends in three different sections: the northeast, middle, and finally the southwest. The southwest section for us started at […]
The Coast-to-Coast Trail: AMK to Botanic Gardens
The middle section of Singapore’s Coast-to-Coast Trail runs through the island’s heartland and then down to the southern edge of the central catchment area. Last weekend, we tackled the northernmost […]
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