Travel and Singapore go together like modern day twins created for the delight of the foreign traveler. Singapore is a standout in the far east in many ways for no neighboring nation has its facilities, infrastructure, accommodations and economy so heavily geared towards the tourist.

There is virtually all one would want to find in a well rounded visit to this amazing vibrant dynamo between the all but surrounding Indonesia with Malaysia to the north. It has top notch hotels and restaurants second to none on a world class scale and of course designed to fit all budgets. Every possible accommodation and convenience has been thought of with very few exceptions to fully please the foreign traveler.

Singapore is a peaceful and supremely prosperous melding of many cultures of that part of the world: Malay, Chinese, Indonesian and Indian. It is a densely compacted Island state of glittering high rise buildings with some 5 million inhabitants.

Travel in and around this modest Island is smoothly facilitated by the cleanest buses, taxis and air conditioned trains you will find anywhere on the planet.  Remarkably, in this clean country poverty is hard to find.

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