itinerary on Singapore of 4 days
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Day One: Explore the past and present
Kick off with a walk around the Civic District’s handsome colonial-era buildings. Many of them have now been turned into galleries and museums. The Asian Civilisations Museum covers the culture and history of the Asian nations, while the sprawling National Gallery is home to the world’s largest collection of South East Asian art. This is also where you’ll find the National Kitchen by Violet Oon, which serves upmarket versions of classic local dishes in a sumptuously-decorated setting.
Gardens by the Bay
Spectacular sight: Gardens by the Bay is one of Singapore’s most famous attractions
From there, cross the Helix Bridge and walk over to Gardens by the Bay, where massive glass conservatories, the Cloud Forest and Flower Dome, and the futuristic ‘Supertree Grove’ vertical gardens turn a traditional flora and fauna experience into something altogether more spectacular.
Keep the green theme going in the evening at the plant-covered, Norman Foster-designed South Beach development. Here, several restaurant options line up alongside the science-themed craft beer bar, Alchemist Beer Lab.
Day Two: Chinatown and a Night Safari
Start off in colourfully bustling and characterful Chinatown. The Chinatown Heritage Centre tells the warts-and-all tale of Chinese settlement in Singapore – from tailors’ shops to opium dens. Soak up this historic precinct’s bustling atmosphere by walking through its wet markets, pre-war shophouses and temples.
The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, inspired by Chinese classic Tang dynasty architecture, and Singapore’s oldest Hindu temple, the 19th-century Sri Mariamman Temple, are dramatically different yet located within a few minutes’ walk of each other. This is a true testament to Singapore’s inter-faith acceptance, a reality since way back when.
The nearby Maxwell Food Court on the site of the old Kim Hua Market houses more than 100 food stalls dishing up authentic Singaporean cuisine under a steel roof. The setting may be functional, even plain, but the food is anything but that, catering to the seemingly insatiable hunger of locals and tourists alike, who team to the Food Court for lunch.
Chinatown is also where you will find the world’s first Michelin street food stall at Hawker Chan’s Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice stall. You can queue up for one of the 150 or so chicken lunches served by Hawker Chan each day. Unlike most Michelin eateries, you’ll get change from a fiver.
Orangutans at Singapore Zoo
Monkey business: Singapore Zoo has the world’s largest captive colony of orangutans CREDIT: GETTY
In the afternoon, pay a visit to the Singapore Zoo, which is justifiably regarded as a groundbreaking world leader. Rather than cages, natural pit barriers are used to separate enclosures, so that its 315 animal species (including the world’s largest captive colony of orangutans) live in large, naturalistic habitats. Visitors can experience unique opportunities such as feeding some of the animals like giraffes, Hamadryas baboons and white rhinoceros allowing them to get up close and personal without having to peer through iron bars.
Covering an expansive 28 hectares, the zoo can take a good few hours to explore, so why not stick around when the sun goes down as there is plenty more to experience. In the evening there are Night Safaris organised in the world’s first “nocturnal zoo”, right next door to the Singapore Zoo, home to more than 130 species across 35 hectares of humid tropical forest.
The area is divided into seven geographical zones that can be explored either on foot via four walking trails, including the Fishing Cat Trail and Leopard Trail, or by open-air tram. It’s your chance to spot rare and beautiful animals such as Malayan tigers, Asian elephants, fishing cats, clouded leopards, Malayan tapirs and Asian lions. You can even dine al fresco on the Gourmet Safari Express, the top deck of an open-top tram, gazing down upon a very different kind of nightlife compared to what you would expect as the rest of the city comes alive.