Singapore Tourist Attractions
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Travour offers you tours and trips to the beautiful destinations of Singapore. The trip can be trimmed or added as per your wishes. Read on to know about the most famous destinations of Singapore. You can also use the Map of Asia to see the geographical location of Singapore and its regions.
Parks And Reserves
Singapore is famous world wide as a Garden City. on your tour to Singapore you will find the city well laden with beautiful gardens, parks, tropical green plants, radiant flowers that carpet the Singaporean landscape all over. We are describing some of them here-
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
It is a beautiful natural reserve with a rainforest in its borders, where tigers roamed once. It is a reserve that is spread in 164-hectare area and contains different varieties of types of plants. Bukit Timah Hill, the highest point of Singapore, lying in the heart of the reserve is the main tourist attraction here. Birds’ melodious songs and voices of monkeys or pangolin accompany you when you roam here in the greenery while listening to the birds. You may even see some.
Chinese and Japanese Gardens
These two gardens are located side by side to each other. But reflect beautifully contrasting landscapes. The Chinese garden spreading across 13-hectare area has the representation of being a traditional Chinese imperial garden with pagodas, while the Japanese Garden highlights simplicity with its stone lanterns, classical Japanese motifs and Zen rock garden.
East Coast Park
East Coast Park is the best playground not only for Singaporeans but also for international tourists. It offers numerous avenues of fun, like cycling, canoeing, windsurfing, bowling, picnicking and more. You can also enjoy delicious food served here.
Jurong Bird Park And Jurong Reptile Park
Covering the vast area of 20-hectares, this is the largest bird park in the whole South-East Asia. It is the home for about 8000 birds of 600 species. Named as Birds of Prey, it displays the outstanding huntsman ship of big birds like, the eagles, falcon and hawks. . It also has the world’s biggest man-made waterfall and world’s largest hornbill collections. The main attraction for tourists is the Jurong Bird Park All-Star Bird Show, which entertains you by beautiful parrots, flamingos and other thrilling highlights. You can also see Penguins swimming in their air-conditioned habitat.
Jurong Reptile Park is also South-East Asia’s largest one that boasts over 50 reptilian species living in various landscapes. It offers you memorable experiences like, walking a track near which the reptiles freely roam, enjoying the reptile shows or taking a snap with them.
The Night Safari
Night Safari is such irrestible attraction of Singapore that no tourist can afford to miss. It is the world’s foremost and only night zoo of its kind. It offers you the chance to see nocturnal animals’ activities in eight different biological zones. Some 1000 nocturnal animals ranging from timorous forest dwellers to ferocious predators. This is a great opportunity to explore the Asian, African and South American habitations in the dark, which diminishes all the visible barricades between the tourists and the wild animals.
Chinatown
Famous as the cultural heart of Singapore, Chinatown provides memorable glimpses in Singaporean history with its plentiful temples, bedecked terraces and an interestingly frenzied hodgepodge of shops, trading merchants and their continuous activities. Nice restaurants and posh shops décor the whole of Chinatown, beautifully.
Little India
Little India is a humbly multihued area having small shops, nice-smelling aromas and melodic Hindi film music. Its whole environ lends much needed break from the prudish contemporaneousness of the city. You can pick up pictures of Hindu deities, relish delicious vegetarian food and observe chapatis being fried by street side cooks.
Sentosa Island
The biggest park than all Singapore’s parks together, Sentosa Island is just wonderful. It is the most visited attraction by the international tourists. It offers you everything on earth, from aquariums, museums, sporting facilities, beaches, luxury hotels, rides, walks and food centres. The recently built Carlsberg Sky Tower that offers the whole overview of Sentosa is the best attraction.