SINGAPORE

Singapore is a cosmopolitan city- with Chinese opera, feng shui and chopsticks existing harmoniously alongside saris and Hindu temples. A melting pot of cultures, Singapore is Asia’s richest, most dazzling and smallest country. This Garden city has a bustling and pulsating nightlife, fantastic shopping, scrupulously clean surroundings and some of the best food you’ll ever taste.

Everything goes towards making Singapore an extremely interesting country- tiny compared to giants like China and India, but one of Asia’s most delightfully attractive tourist destinations. So travel to Singapore to discover this very interesting Asian city.

Capital: Singapore City

Best time to visit:

  1. Singapore’s pretty much a year-round destination: there are no dramatic variations in temperature, and the amount of rainfall too doesn’t vary to any great extent, although it is somewhat higher between November and January.
  2. If you’re a food buff or love shopping, then the best time to visit Singapore would be around July as that’s when the Great Singapore Sale and the Singapore Food Festival are held.

Minimum days required:

Places of Interest:

  1. Universal Studios Singapore
  2. Sentosa
  3. Singapore Flyer
  4. Night Safari Singapore
  5. Singapore Botanical Gardens
  6. Jurong Bird Park
  7. Underwater World

Climate:

  1. Singapore’s climate is typically tropical – hot and humid twelve months of the year. Daytime temperatures hover around 30°C (often higher), while nights are generally not cooler than 20°C.
  2. It’s muggy too – the humidity level is around 75% on most days. There is a slight increase in the rainfall between November and January, but there are generous spurts of sunshine too, so don’t worry about getting too wet.

Currency:  Singapore Dollar

Things to carry:

  1. As far as clothing is concerned, bring light (preferably cotton) clothes to Singapore, as the weather’s the type that makes it downright uncomfortable to wear anything else.
  2.  Some theatres and snazzy specialty restaurants have a mandatory dress code that is formal, so go prepared.
  3. If you are on any prescribed medication carry the doctor’s prescription along. Singapore is well stocked with the latest in western cosmetics, toiletries and branded clothes, so those in search of specific items should not have to search far and wide or carry ample supplies along

How to get there:

Air:

  1. Singapore is well connected by air to the rest of the world being as it is an important city for trade and holidays. All major airlines feature Changi Airport on their schedules and provide connections from many places. The state of the art airport is among the best in the world.