SINGAPORE TRAVEL GUIDE: Everything You Need to Know

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is just a little about this place in this country there are six million people it is known for having modernity skyscrapers but they have also done a great job to keep Green in the city Singapore is now Nicknamed The Garden City, although there are these skyscrapers, there is also great culture in the city's temples and of course, delicious food shopaholics will definitely enjoy shopping on Orchard Road if you fly here. We are going to love the airport because Singapore airport has been named the best airport in the world, we will talk more about that later and if English is your main language, Singapore is a great place to visit because English is one of the languages de facto officials of Singapore.

Pack your bags and let's take a look at this great country. The second thing you should know is information that will help you find your way around Singapore and one of the best places to do it right here in front of the Merlion is the unofficial mascot. of Singapore half lion half mermaid and this is where everyone comes to take a Singapore selfie but there is a lot to know about this place more than just here so Singapore is a city-state which means it is a country and a city together, the country. It only has one city and it is Singapore.

It is located at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula. There are two bridges connecting Singapore to mainland Malaysia. Now it's back in the central business district. It's home to high-rise financial corporations in really tall skyscrapers, but really part of Singapore's charm is how it combines the classic with the historic and right next to the financial district is Chinatown with old school restaurants, old school temples. school, you will smell incense as you walk through its streets and that juxtaposition walking through this super cool place north of the Mer line is the Singapore River coming inland from Marina Bay.

This area is the colonial heart of Singapore. It is known as the Civic District. This is where you will find many of Singapore's museums. also government buildings and there are a lot of really nice neighborhoods along that river. You'll see neighborhoods like Clark Key and Boat Key and you'll see them written in q-u-a-y which is pronounced key. You'll find much of Singapore's nightlife around those two. Key Neighbourhoods: The commercial hub of Singapore is located along Orchard Road, it is the central stop. City street with more than 20 shopping centers in just one street. More information about shopping in the section of this video dedicated exclusively to shopping, being a melting pot of numerous cultures.

There are also plenty of really pretty ethnic neighborhoods worth visiting, including Little India with an elaborate Hindu temple, Kempong Galam, home to the incredible Sultan Mosque, geylang Sarai, and one of the oldest Malay settlements in Singapore. Singapore also has 63 islands, although most visitors only visit one other island besides the main one, which is Sentosa Island. Sentosa Island could be considered Singapore's Beach Resort theme park. It's home to tons of fun things to do, including beaches, zip lines, water parks, and home to Universal Studios Singapore. The third thing you need to know is about getting to Singapore and if you fly to Singapore, you will fly into Changi International Airport, one of the best airports in the world, no, the best airport in the world and now you might be thinking about Chris, if you're talking about airports why are you standing in front of a waterfall? this is at the airport this is at the jewel the crown jewel of the airport basically a 1.7 billion dollar shopping mall that connects all the terminals you don't even need a ticket to get in here people who live in

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Changi Airport is incredibly well connected to the rest of the world. More than 100 airlines operate flights from here to 400 different cities. It was originally built as a transit hub and the idea was to make Singapore an amazing place to connect and then people stop and visit Singapore while they are here, but now the airport itself has become a destination for many people, such as Many people come to Singapore just to spend a day or a day and a half at the airport before returning home, so it's interesting that unlike most other airports, there are no separate areas for passengers to They depart and arrive at the main terminals before passport control, so if you arrive at Singapore airport, you can shop and eat at airside establishments upon arrival, there are four terminals in total and terminal 4 specializes mainly on budget airlines.

Each terminal has really fantastic things. Terminal one has a swimming pool. Terminal 2 has a music listening area with sofas. Terminal 3 has a butterfly garden that connects this place is the Joya and above is the canopy bridge from 23 meters above, you have glass floors and smoke machines. I mean, I could go on and on about the gem, in fact, I'll have a whole video separately. If you just want to see a tour of this place now because it is a big connecting airport, Singapore tourism actually offers tours of the city, even if you only have as little as four hours you can do it, but despite so many people only makes Singapore as a stopover.

I think it is now worth at least five days much more than a simple stopover. If you fly here and come to Singapore, they have moved their arrivals paperwork online, you need to submit your Singapore. arrival card through their website or the my CA mobile app is free, do not pay for any Shady services, but if you do, when you arrive in Singapore, if it is one of the countries that are eligible for e-gates, then you don't even have to see a passport agent, you just touch your passport, take a photo, get fingerprinted and then you're in Singapore.

For me, it was 30 minutes from the time I landed to the time I passed. customs passport control, baggage claim and was in a taxi to the city 30 minutes from landing to the city. I mean, that never happens anywhere else. So how do you get to the city? I usually take a taxi. It costs between S$20 and S$40. It takes me about 30 minutes to get to the city center, it was 25 minutes to the JW Marriott where I was staying on this trip. You can also take the MRT, which is their version of the subway. It also passes through the airport.

It has a stop in the basement of Terminal Two and is definitely the cheapest way to get into the city. It will cost you around two Singapore dollars, but it is not very convenient because you have to transfer at least once. It's probably only good if you don't have that much luggage. There are also numerous. airport buses from the airport to the city if you are going to Orchard Road then the 36 bus is your best option, it also costs about two dollars. Now you don't just have to fly to Singapore, there are a couple more ways to get there.

If you come from Malaysia, you can cross those two bridges by land that I told you about before or you can also come here by ferry. There are five ferry terminals that handle ferry traffic from neighboring cities in Malaysia and Indonesia and there is a major cruise port opposite the port, the fourth thing you need to know is how to get around Singapore and the best way to get around Singapore is use that thing I told you not to take from the airport, the MRT or mass rapid transit, sometimes you will. See it as smrt, Singapore mass rapid transit and they have a section called LRT, light rapid transit or light rail rapid transit, anyway that's enough acronyms.

You should know that the MRT, the subway, the train in Singapore, it is amazing, it is clean, it is fast. efficient and cheap for the cheapest trips get an Easy Link card which is the stored value card you can tap and withdraw in a pinch, you can use your Visa or Mastercard with tap but you will pay an extra 50 cents per trip if you are doing when you're not taking the MRT. The second best way to get around is walking. Singapore is a very walkable place although it is hot which makes it a little more difficult to walk.

The good thing is that there are plenty of covered trails. to keep you away from the sun great to keep you away from the rain, bring an umbrella when you are in Singapore because the covered walkways are not everywhere and the rain can fall very quickly without warning so it is really useful to have an umbrella when you walk. You will find that there are many honest, metered taxis within the city, although they often cannot stop on the side of the road to pick you up because it is illegal to do so in many places you will need to go to a taxi rank or taxi rank or to a hotel. that has a taxi to take a taxi reliably or you can use the Grab app.

Grab is the ride-sharing app in Singapore, it's not Uber, it's not Lyft, it's take it, so maybe download it on your phone before you go. One more thing you should know about taxis is that there is actually no standard color for taxis in Singapore. They come in different colors, but there are larger taxis that will charge more on the meter and then on the sign here it says that there are limousine taxis that are like white or black taxis and they don't actually have to charge you by meter. I took one of those when I came back from the zoo because it was a rainy day and it was 25 dollars for me to get to the zoo in a regular taxi and fifty dollars to return them from the zoo in a limo taxi, but let me tell you, the limo taxi was amazing, a little came, because when it rains and it was raining.

When I was at the zoo there were no taxis and I used Grab and there were no cars available either, so in that case use a limo taxi instead of getting stuck in purgatory. Oh, and of course, there's the bus. Singapore has plenty of bus routes. uh they're clean, they're efficient, they get a little stuck in traffic, but if you like to take a route, say to the zoo or somewhere where maybe the MRT doesn't work, you'll end up taking a bus some are single floor others are two floors you will find all the stops in English.

I think it's pretty easy to navigate. Google Maps will do a good job of telling you which bus routes to follow if you can't get there. The MRT cycling is not really a thing for transportation here. I mean, there are people who ride bikes in Singapore, but there aren't really many bike lanes or many bike lanes. It is illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk. You have to do it. on the street I don't know. I think the other public transportation options are so good and it rains so often that I wouldn't recommend cycling. Another good way to get around is by boat.

You can take a boat on the Singapore. River is more of a sightseeing cruise, but it's a good way to see the city if you rent a car. Look, I don't think so. I mean the place is very small and public transportation is very good and rental cars are very expensive. Just leave. car rental at the airport the fifth thing to know is about the climate and when to go Singapore is officially classified as a rainforest climate. What does that mean? It means that it is hot and humid all year round. There are really no distinct seasons when The average year-round temperature is 88 degrees Fahrenheit and the average nighttime temperature is 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

Hot and humid and under the midday sun on a really quite oppressive and miserable sunny day. The seasons are rainy and dry. or maybe January to March, rainy and less rainy, the dry season is considered with a 25 chance of actual rain on a given day and then the rainy season is the rest of the year, with the peak being in October with a chance 60's It rains any day in October, but I think it's significant rain. It rains almost every day here in Singapore, so make sure you bring that umbrella with you that I was talking about earlier.

Today it really rained quite a bit and it was like the day I looked at the weather forecast on Google, which is worthless, don't do that, you need to look at the Singapore weather forecast to really know if it's going to rain, but you know what gray days like This one is probably actually your best friend because these are the days where it's going to stay a little cooler, so you're not completely baked in the sun. No, I say all this as if the weather is so hot that you shouldn't come and look, nothing could be further from the truth, it is hot here, but the best thing is that, like all the buildings, they have super good air conditioning, in addition to Hawker centers, but they love to condition their buildings to a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, um.

So, like when you go to a hotel or a shopping mall, you think, "Finally I can, I can finally cool off." You might want to bring a light jacket if you're not used to very cold air conditioning, because you'll find that being very cold inside is good for me as a Californian, but Europeans tell me that indoor air conditioning is too cold for them. Now speaking of sudden storms, here's one of those two hours ago, perfectly sunny, right now, fun in the lightning, the typical pattern in Singapore. It is shown by the Meteorological Service of thegovernment and also, as the taxi driver told me today while driving here, it's usually clear in the morning and thunderstorms in the afternoon, so if you're planning outdoor activities, do them in the morning, that's the highest chance of get things dry and then plan your indoor or covered activities for the afternoon.

Luckily, I'm undercover here at Singapore Zoo's River River Park. These covers are nice, but thunder and lightning are quite loud. Let's talk about money. The currency in Singapore is the Singapore dollar. Thick cards are Visa or Mastercard and are widely accepted in Singapore. I'd say about 90 of the places you'll spend your money will accept credit cards, the places that won't or maybe some of the Hawker Center booths as well. some of the street vendors, so it's worth having some cash on hand. I guess in a pinch you could go to maxicash and pawn some of your stuff, which seems like an upscale pawn shop, but where do you get your money from?

I like to get my money from the ATMs at the airport where I like to get it uh if you want to prefer to get it from a money changer there is money changed at the airport there are money changers all over the city I have been told some of the best rates are in the houses of change in Little India. I haven't used them, but I've heard a lot of people tell me that if you're looking to exchange a lot of money and you really want a good rate, then that's an option now. related to a lot of money, Singapore is really an expensive destination when it comes to Southeast Asia now compared to Thailand or Malaysia, things in Singapore will probably be two or three times more expensive, meals at Hawker centers are quite cheap but if you go to a fancy restaurant, you can expect to pay a couple of hundred dollars in the luxury hotels in the city, we'll talk more about the ones in the hotels, but you can expect to pay, you know, 300 Singapore dollars. one night or more if you want something cheap then you know, visit some places like Malaysia.

You can get there in about 30 minutes from Singapore and you can eat there. Indonesia is also just a ferry ride away so you can do it cheap after your Singapore Vacation, but I plan to budget a little more than the rest of Southeast Asia, although I think Singapore has a problem when it comes to cost, actually it doesn't have to be expensive, it can be there, there was the movie Crazy. Rich Asians, that speaks volumes about how expensive Singapore is, but I think I've spent

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I think I spent the S$25 on breakfast, lunch, second lunch and dessert. Seven Things You Should Know is about food and really one of the reasons why I come to Singapore and a lot of people come to Singapore is to eat. The food is amazing and you can get it for cheap, so let me tell you where you're going to get it. Some of the most delicious and cheapest food in the city is at Hawker centres. I'm sitting in a hawker center right now. The Singapore government created them to clean up the city and remove street vendors from the streets.

Put them on. a central place where they could have running water, electricity, good hygiene, there are now over a hundred of these Hawker centers in Singapore and you can get like a bowl of noodles for three Singapore dollars at one of these places, they're tasty, they're great. They are busy, this is like Singapore is a central dining room when it comes to lunch time, so if you come to one of these you can't find a place to sit, it's great to join someone to sit with them because they are quite popular. I have a full

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to Hawker resorts coming out soon, but if you want to check out some of the top three Hawker resorts, number one is the Newton Circus, this is the one that was featured in Crazy Rich Asians. the closest to Orchard Road if you're staying there.

I actually don't love this Hawker Center and I wouldn't recommend you go there for the tastiest food. Go there because you saw it in the movie. Go there to take great selfies. but what I don't like about Circus Newton is that they promote what means promote, which means there are constantly people walking around bothering you to order their food, so I don't love that what I do is not a peaceful dining experience. like that's in the center of the city, it's Lao pasta, it's in the central business district, there are a hundred stalls there, they're pretty good and at night they have stir fry on the street, where they cook meat on a steak, they They take care of the coal outside, so they definitely do it.

Check out Saute Street in Lao Pasta and then number three is Gluttons by the Bay. This is right on Marina Bay. It's best in the evening because you can sit outside and eat a classic Singapore chilli crab. Why do you enjoy the view of Marina Bay Sands? but with over a hundred of these don't limit yourself to just them if you're wandering around town and you're hungry it's lunch time and you see one stop and eat that's what I did today this is the Albert Center in Booga. Street Market I wasn't planning on eating here but I was hungry and I was at the Booga Street Market and I thought, oh look, there's a hawker center, why don't I go get some noodles?

You should do the same. and if you don't know what to eat, you know that a good tip is to always find one with the longest line, okay, maybe not the longest because the lines can be very long in these Hawker centers, you know, maybe you will find one that have like a medium length queue now if you want something a little more air conditioned Singapore has a lot of food courts that are like Hawker centers except in an air conditioned mall some of my favorites are the chain Republic food, right? Now I'm at Food Republic in Vivo City, this is a great place if you're connecting to Sentosa Island because the cable car and Sentosa Island Express train basically come directly from here.

That I have? I got the mango shave ice with fresh mango and mango ice cream 3.50 so what a dollar more than the shave ice at a resort like Chinatown so yes you pay a little more for the air conditioning but I think it's worth it, some of my other favorite foods. republics at Suntec City next to Esplanade MRT also at ION Orchard in the basement of Orchard Road. I really love the food court there. I think it's on the basement level. Oh, and sometimes people say I spend too much time in these videos talking about food.

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or just a food video, so if you want to see more of my favorite Locker Center recommendations or what particular dishes I recommend, I've split it into a separate video, you can find the link in the description or at the end of this video in my Singapore playlist as soon as it's ready, and also, because this food court is air-conditioned, I actually still have ice here, unlike the ones I ate at Hawker centers, but when I finished recording my video. I was eating cold water with sugar. The eighth thing you should know is about shopping and if eating is the first national pastime in Singapore, then shopping is the second national pastime in Singapore.

You know, shopping malls are dying in many places. the world, particularly in the US, but not in Singapore, shopping malls are alive and well, why? Because the malls here are amazing, hundreds of stores, they all have different designs, you know, they're not just the same Westfield malls located in every city in the country. There is only one city in the entire country, so they really have to compete quite a bit. There are so many international tourists visiting here. Many people come here to spend their money and shop. Most of its flagship stores in the mall stay open until 8 PM or 10 PM, although some stores are adopting a monthly routine of staying open until midnight.

If you want to know the best shopping malls in Singapore, I have a whole video on that, but if you want to do an open-air street market. buying well, there are not many because it rains a lot in Singapore, so almost

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is covered within the two three that you will find outside. I have a video about all of that, the Bugis market, the Chinatown market and then there's like a little pavilion. in Little India for those traditional outdoor shopping experiences, let's talk about Singapore and here you will find a wide variety of accommodation options, from hostels and capsule hotels that cost around 25 a night to the luxurious Sands, based on the marina , which will cost you more than 600 a night.

At night, my typical places are the Conrad Centennial, the Marriott Tang Plaza on Orchard Road and on this trip I stayed at the JW Marriott South Beach, which is my new favorite hotel in Singapore. If you can calculate the cost, it was 600 per night during this trip. I used Marriott points though and if you get it for 300 then I think it's a bargain. I really like to stay in the city centre, whether it's around Marina Bay or on Orchard Road, those would be the places I would recommend because you are closer to all the tourist attractions you can walk to things you can walk to if you stay in Marina Bay you can walk to take pictures with the Merlion you can walk to eat uh and you can come back in the middle of the day to like take a nap or change your clothes or take another shower because it's very hot here, you should know about the language they use in Singapore and There are four official languages ​​in Singapore, English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil, now you will find many things in many different languages ​​this green tea can say everything it is in like four different languages ​​you will hear many languages ​​spoken but if all you speak is English you will be able to get around well because English is the de facto language it is the language used in government it is the language used on most signs, although you will see signs in other languages, they don't have to be just in English, but the interesting thing about English spoken here is which has a really very interesting meaning. pronunciation and a whole set of words that are basically added from other languages ​​that people speak here, they call it Spoken English here Singlish or Singapore English and it's based on British English and then they add Cantonese words and the most common one is LA. and when I was at the zoo, I'm at the zoo right now, so when I was at the zoo, I heard, you know them, a mother telling her daughter that all the elephants there are females and the daughter says really why? what and Mom says: I don't know and then the daughter says: Well, can you use the Google law as if it were the LED law at the end of each word?

It will probably take you a little while to get used to Singapore English, um, and at first you might think that people aren't speaking to you in English, it's much faster than normal English and, like I say, it has those Chinese words added to it. You know you can study some of those English words and you know they love it here so much that they even have it as a plate in a gift shop. They are very proud of their Singlish. The eleventh thing you should know is about the laws and Singapore is famous all over the world for having some very strict laws.

Let me tell you something. some you should know as visitor number one, vandalism is punishable by caning, so graffiti, tagging, carving your name on the bathroom wall, just don't do it, overstaying your visa, is also punishable by caning, so however long you have to stay in Singapore, leave. when it's your turn to go, they are also very strict on drug trafficking, drug trafficking in Singapore is punishable by death and that includes whether you are bringing real drugs into the country or if there are just drugs in your system, so you know, although Marijuana may be legal in certain US states or Amsterdam.

You probably want to wait a bit before coming to Singapore because if it's in your system it's considered drug trafficking and now one of the often misunderstood ones is chewing. chewing gum, chewing gum itself is not illegal in Singapore as you will find it very difficult to buy it here. You can bring it with you, just make sure you don't spit it on the ground, littering, spitting, it's also illegal and finally, What's kind of funny but you should also keep in mind is that they have a love-hate relationship with durian , it is like a prickly and stinky fruit and is not allowed in many places in Singapore, including Singapore MRT, so don't buy it. a durian and hope to take public transport back to your hotel uh, I guess you'll probably buy your durian and eat it where you bought it, so you'll keep the stench of the durian to yourself number 13 you should know about electric power here in Singapore They use British-style Type G outlets that have three types of square pins rated at 230 volts.

If you're coming from the US you'll need an adapter the size of the plug and you should check the voltage of your electrical items to make sure they run on 230 volts, like fancy hotels, jelly man I'm staying at, have outlets that They will like to work for us, British style plugs and sockets, but they won't adapt the voltage if you are in one of those hotels, sometimes the reception will have a voltage converter ifyou have electrical devices that don't switch between the two. The thirteenth thing you should know is about casinos and if you want to gamble in Singapore, there are two casinos there.

This one is at Resorts World on Sentosa Island and the second is at Marina Bay Sands in that futuristic surfboard-looking building. Now, if you are a foreigner, you can enter these casinos for free, but you must show your passport and the like. immigration email you receive upon entering the country why do you have to get that right to discourage locals from gambling? They charge Singapore residents 150 a day to come to the casinos or three thousand dollars a year for an annual pass. How lucky you can come. get in for free just by showing your passport make sure you have your phone and you can open that email that has the barcode with your immigration card because that's how they do immigration cards you have to show both every time you enter and every time When you visit the casinos you won't feel like the casinos in Las Vegas, they're not as lively and bustling, they're pretty calm and quiet, you know?

Because when people come here, especially the locals, and they've spent their 150 dollars, you know that It's for an intense gaming session where they're really focused on winning, you'll find some pretty cool tricks inside, although now let's talk about everyone's favorite topic. I know you've been waiting for toilets to insert poop emojis here, eh, in Singapore, generally the toilets are clean, plentiful and modern, generally there are some that are not. From time to time you will see The Squatty Potty, which is the Asian style squat toilet, if you find it. one of those just find another stall, usually there will only be one of those and they will be the standard western bathrooms for everyone else, also if you are in a bathroom where there is toilet paper when you walk in the door take it with you because that means there will be no paper hygienic when you enter the cubicle and then many of the bathrooms that you will find in Hawker centers or in mrts like on the subway generally do not have paper towels or towels of any kind. corn, so if you want to dry your hands make sure you pack some towels and most toilets are free, although occasionally you will find a toilet that costs a few cents if you are walking. walk around the city and not know where to go.

Shopping malls are always a good option, as are elegant five-star hotels. Just walk in like you own the place and you're staying there, they'll assume you're staying there too. in Singapore and if you are here for a few days my number one recommendation is to visit the Singapore Zoo. I say a few days because it's a bit long to get here, so set aside a full day or at least half a full day. day to visit the zoo if you love animals or even if you love animals this is the best zoo in the world it's amazing.

I have a whole video just about this place, you can see it in the description or at the end of this video when it is already available if you are less of a nature lover and more of a theme park lover then you should definitely visit Sentosa Island. This is basically Singapore's playground. It is home to Universal Studio Singapore. It is home to a huge aquarium. It is home to a huge water park. The best way to get to Sentosa Island is to take the cable car. There is a really fancy cable car that will bring you from the top of Mount Faber with incredible views.

You can also take the monorail from VivoCity mall or just take a taxi which is what I did today, it's about 15 from the city center to get here. Also, if you like gambling, you will find a casino here within Resorts, where in the world there is a second casino in Marina Bay Sands, but us. I'll talk about that while talking about Marina Bay Sands because it's definitely on the bucket list right now, if you like being in nature, go for a hike. Singapore has a lot of great walking paths, these are the hiking trails here on Sentosa Island, many of the most popular hiking trails are paved because it rains so much here that if it weren't they would get muddy, but one of my favorite hikes is the along the southern ridges of Singapore.

I have a whole video just about this one. but the nice thing about it is that it starts at Mount Faber where the cable car goes to Sentosa Island and then you take it along these ridges and you can see the city and you can stop if you want. It's a good half-day hike, um and uh. it's just that it's a very good view of Singapore or you can go further into the jungle and go hang out and see the wildlife, there are wild monkeys, there are wild lizards, it's surprising for such a developed place, but it really is They have developed. parts of it and then I kept other parts to be quite natural, although if you're going out in the jungle you should bring some mosquito repellent because the mosquitoes can be ferocious here, so we want to get to the beach. here on sentosa island you can take the train all the way and you'll be right here on jealous beach these are pretty white sand artificial beaches pretty peaceful here what's less peaceful or kind of weird is

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it's like a huge sea shipping place and In the distance, this distance from this very quiet beach, there are tons of cargo ships waiting to unload their cargo.

There is also a nice musical fountain that you can see here and it has a night show on the weekends and During the holidays I also met my fellow explorers Kai and the Suns here in Singapore from Australia and I cried, what do you have to share with your companions explorers about singing? Oh, we love coming here, it's our family destination, we love it, uh, we love it. Nightlife we ​​like the 10 degree temperature it's pretty hot we like roller coasters and we love Sentosa that's for sure we definitely love Sentosa Island and Universal Studios and uh and shopping shopping is a lot of fun too , the kids like to go and take a look. all the latest gear Singapore has to offer, so yeah, we had a good time here, it's definitely a family destination, safe, sad, this is our destination, it's our last day, it's seven days, seven days, well, seven days in the US before here, so yes, it was absolutely amazing to visit Kampong, the ethnic center for the Malay people and the Muslim community in Singapore because it is home to the 200-year-old Sultan's Mosque.

When I was here, they were celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, so they had organized a street festival, but if you are here during Ramadan, you might be able to participate in some big Muslim festival in front, or if not, you can go between 10 and 12 or between 2 and 4 every day. If you want to go see the mosque you have to take off your shoes and if you have bare shoulders or shorts like me then they will give you appropriate clothing to wear while you are inside. There are many neat nooks and crannies in this neighborhood and if you leave the main Sultan Street, there with the mosque, another interesting alley to visit is called Lane and even the streets around it have like covered areas for walking, but this is Lane, right here, it's a small narrow alley with restaurants, cafes, street art, super cool atmosphere.

If you are a history buff, you will definitely enjoy a visit to the National Museum of Singapore in this really attractive 19th century building. goes over how Singapore started and became the nation it is today, bringing together all these different cultures in this melting pot that emerged from British colonial rule and became part of Malaysia, eventually became an independent nation and more is what you will learn in that. A really nice museum worth a couple of hours of your time and now a great way to explore nature even on a rainy or hot day is to visit Gardens by the bay Gardens by the bay.

It's a huge, huge plot that really is like a modern garden. and in this modern garden it is free to just walk around the gardens, but they have a couple of paid attractions, they have this super tree forest that offers a night show that is free, but you can cross it on a bridge for amazing views. It costs you money to go up there, although the main attraction is the two domes, there is a flower dome that, by name, has flowers when I was here, they had cherry blossoms there, they have seasonal flowers like tulips, that kind of thing.

The main Dome is this one I'm in right now, the Cloud Forest Dome, which is like it's a rainforest in a dome and it gets foggy every two hours, so you want to be here in the even hours when the fog starts to roll in. Go up because it's really cool, it's like you want to do both domes, it costs 53 dollars and yes it's a little expensive but I think it's worth it, if you want a free garden you can visit the Royal Botanical Gardens, eh that's a more traditional garden. Entry to the garden is free, except you have to go to the Orchid Garden, which will cost you money, and you should also visit the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

Why do I mention that while I'm here doing bayside watch? Well, because it is, it is, it is. Out there they are next to each other Marina Bay Sands, that is the second casino here in Singapore. It has a great shopping center, it has a great food court in the basement and there is a nightly light show that you can see from the bay a couple of times a night, admission is free, fellow explorers. I hope you enjoyed this video, if you did please give it a like and if you want to see more of my Singapore videos you will find links here on the screen or in the description below you may be interested in Hawker centers you may be interested in reviews of hotels I have all that and more and as always I won't say goodbye because I'll see you in the next video