Johor Bahru
The three-day tour of Singapore begins in JB, Johor Bahru, a Malaysian border city across the sea from Singapore. JB Senai Airport provides convenient shuttle bus connecting the airport and JB Sentral through the day, a complex for both train station and the CIQ custom crossing border, which is said to be the busiest border in the world.
Scenes on the bus, somewhere around the southern-most JB street near the CIQ.
The Airbnb I stayed in was very close to the CIQ, and in the most well-known neighbourhood around JB Sentral you can see a lot of Chinese, Indian Buddhist, and Malay culture presence.
JB City Square, “Energetic, modern mall offering a typical range of shops, a cineplex, restaurants & beauty services.” You can see lots of Singaporeans here shopping and dining with much lower price compared to SG.
Highrise residential building in Malaysia, commonly consists of ground floor commercial business + multi complex parking lot + all residential apartments above.
Really love the sunset pool scene (sorry I cannot swim).
Netflix, grab taxi to CIQ, and crossing the border.
Woodlands Checkpoint Arrival, Little India, Singapore Management University SMU, Raffles, Esplanade
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer, the Merlion, Boat Quay, Chinatown
I got to know this stunningly beautiful city nation from a CNA documentary series “Aerial Asia” back in 2017. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/aerial-asia/singapore-1926521
Hawker Centre / Food Centre
A hawker centre (Chinese: 小贩中心), or cooked food centre (Chinese: 熟食中心), is an often open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They are intended to provide a more sanitary alternative to mobile hawker carts and contain many stalls that sell different varieties of affordable meals. Tables and chairs are usually provided for diners.
Such centres are usually managed by a governing authority that maintains the facility and rents out stores for hawkers to sell their goods.
Apple Store in Singapore
Apple Orchard Road
Apple Marina Bay Sands
Apple Marina Bay Sands, the first Apple Store to sit directly on the water. Appearing as a sphere floating on the iridescent Marina Bay, the store introduces a new and captivating retail experience at one of the most iconic locations in Singapore.
Entirely surrounded by water, Apple Marina Bay Sands offers uninterrupted 360-degree panoramic views of the city and its spectacular skyline. The sphere is a first-of-its-kind, all-glass dome structure that is fully self-supported, comprised of 114 pieces of glass with only 10 narrow vertical mullions for structural connection.
Apple Marina Bay Sands opens Thursday in Singapore – Apple (SG)
Apple Changi
Sentosa Resort Island
Sentosa is an island resort off Singapore’s southern coast, connected to the city by road, cable car, pedestrian boardwalk and monorail. By Sentosa Station, Tiger Sky Tower has panoramic views that can stretch as far as Indonesia. On the south coast, Palawan Beach is lined with food stalls and bars, and has a suspension bridge to a small offshore island. Palm-lined, crescent-shaped Tanjong Beach is more tranquil.
I highly recommend the walking route to the island! Instead of paying a few Singapore dollars to take the monorail from the harbourfront to the island (the monorail charges to Sentosa from the city, however the journey routing on the island, as well as the return from the island to the city are completely free), I would recommend sightseers (on a sunny day) start from HarbourFront MRT station and head south of Vivocity mall, to the open-air shoreline, where you can walk to the island.
From there, you can enter the ‘Harbourfront Boardwalk’ and walk to the island. The sea water, blue sky, cable cars, cityscape, cruise port, and all kinds of beautiful buildings, OMG the scenery is stunning! 与其花上几新币从harbourfront乘坐monorail上岛（从城市进入圣淘沙岛需要付费，然而岛上的几个站、以及从岛上回到城市是完全免费的），我建议所有在晴天的观光客在HarbourFront地铁站下车，往Vivocity商场南边出到露天海岸，从这里可以进到步行上岛的”Harbourfront Boardwalk”，海水、蓝天、缆车、城市风光、邮轮港口、美轮美奂的各式建筑，OMG风景绝美！
National University of Singapore
The new semester at NUS started right after I went back to China, and their new policy is that visitors are not allowed to enter the campus during the semester to visit and use the campus facilities like free campus shuttle bus and student canteen, haha I was lucky. 我回中国之后NUS的新学期就开始了，他们的新政策是学期内不允许游客进入校园参观、使用校车和食堂，哈哈我很幸运。
(Night) Gardens by the Bay, Bayfront, Marina Bay Sands, Supertree Grove
(Day) OCBC Skyway, Cloud Forest in Gardens by the Bay
The sky bridge connecting the two mega trees, from which you can overlook the superb Gardens by the Bay in the distance, MBS in the near distance and the Singapore coast in the distance.连接两条超大树花园的空中天桥，在这上面你可以俯瞰远眺超绝的滨海湾花园、近处的MBS以及远方的新加坡海岸。
The Skyway takes about 20 minutes and Cloud Forest is a lot bigger than I thought it would be. It’s a very giant sky gardens, the famous oversized indoor waterfalls, complex seven stories high gardens, and a wide variety of plants interacting with each other, so please reserve 2++ hours for the entire tour in Cloud Forest. Skyway大概需要20分钟，而Cloud Forest比我想象的要大很多。巨型的空中花园，超大的室内瀑布，高达七层楼的立体布置，各式各样的植物在此互动，整个游览时间请保留两小时以上。
My stay in Holiday Inn Express and ST Signature near Jalan Basar MRT
Changi Airport, and miscellaneous
Changi Airport’s Jewel Changi HSBC Rain Vortex waterfall underwent a week-long annual engineering maintenance in early January, so I got to see a waterfall without any water fall! 樟宜机场的星耀樟宜瀑布在1月初进行了为期一周的年度工程维护，所以我看到了一个没有瀑布的瀑布！
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