Best Singapore and Malaysia Tour: Kuala Lumpur, Petronas Towers, Melaka, Langkawi, Marina Bay Sands and Southeast Asia Deep Urban Heritage Destinations
Browse more guides: Malaysia travel | Asia destinations Best Singapore and Malaysia Tour: Marina Bay Sands (opened 2010), Petronas Towers (1998 to 2004, 452 m), George Town UNESCO 2008, Melaka UNESCO 2008, Kinabalu Park UNESCO 2000, Singapore Botanic Gardens UNESCO 2015 and the Best Southeast Asia Deep Urban Heritage Destinations I have walked the length of Orchard Road at 7 a.m. on a humid May morning, queued for the 86th-floor observation deck at the Petronas Twin Towers with a printed timed ticket at 9:55 a.m., chased the slow ferris-wheel light of the Singapore Flyer from the East Coast Park bicycle path, and eaten a USD 2.30 plate of char kway teow at a Penang hawker stall while a thunderstorm rolled across the Strait of Malacca. Singapore and Malaysia sit on either side of the 1,038 m Johor-Singapore Causeway, opened on 28 June 1924, and together they pack more concentrated heritage, food, skyline and forest into a 1,000 km north-south corridor than almost any other slice of ...