Best Traditional Singaporean Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay, Sentosa, Hawker Centres UNESCO 2020, Chinatown and Singapore Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Singapore travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Singaporean Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay, Sentosa, Hawker Centres UNESCO Intangible 2020 and Botanic Gardens UNESCO 2015 Plus Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Singapore is a 728 square kilometre island city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula with a population of about 5.9 million people, four official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil), and a tropical climate that hovers between 25 and 31 degrees Celsius almost every day of the year. It became independent from Malaysia in 1965 and within two generations turned itself into one of Asia's three big financial capitals while still keeping the layered Peranakan, Tamil, Cantonese and Malay neighbourhoods that grew up around the Singapore River after Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819. For a traveller this means you can walk from a 207 metre tall hotel topped by a 340 metre SkyPark to ...