How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight CityGuide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Singapore, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Singapore. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Singapore are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Singapore. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

© 2017 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

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Table of Contents

Singapore’s Top 10 Attractions

Editor’s Choice

Introduction: Savvy Singapore

A Nation of Cultures

Decisive Dates

Growth of a Lion City

Social Campaigns

Events and Festivals

Insight: A Potpourri of Festivals

Singapore After Dark

Cuisine

Insight: Singapore-style Hawker Food

Shopping

Introduction: Introduction

The Civic District

Insight: The Asian Civilisations Museum

Chinatown, the Central Business District and Marina Bay

Insight: Feng Shui Principles

Orchard Road and Surrounds

Insight: Orchids in a Garden City

Little India and Kampung Glam

Insight: Singapore Shophouses

Sentosa and the Southern Islands

Southern and Western Singapore

The East Coast

Central and Northern Singapore

Transport

A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information

Further Reading

Singapore Street Atlas