About this book

Bradt’s new Singapore guidebook is the most comprehensive and deeply researched guide ever published to one of the jewels of Southeast Asia. It offers both visitors and PRs (permanent residents) insider tips on getting off the beaten track to discover how Singapore works and what really makes it tick.

Perched at the Malay Peninsula’s southernmost tip, Singapore is English-speaking, reassuringly safe, spotlessly clean and – thanks to this guidebook’s detailed practical advice – remarkably easy to explore on foot and by metro, bus and rented bicycle. The cityscape abounds in eye-catching architecture, including 19th-century shophouses, vibrant temples, historic churches and iconic 21st-century skyscrapers, yet Singapore is also home to extensive rainforest reserves where playful but naughty monkeys are a constant, and perpetually captivating, menace.

Written by a local expert, and with a particular focus on family-friendly activities, Bradt’s Singapore guidebook reveals the best places to take an urban or rainforest stroll, have a picnic and find engaging public art (including government-sponsored ‘graffiti’) – as well as places that even Singaporeans seldom visit.

What makes this guide indispensable?

• Expert local knowledge – written by Daniel Robinson, an award-winning Southeast Asia specialist who has authored scores of travel guides over the past four decades.
• Coverage of places ignored by other guides – a hot spring, hidden beaches on offshore islands, birdwatching hotspots in coastal marshlands – also includes chapters on the dynamic Malaysian city of Johor Bahru and Indonesia’s Riau Islands
• Essential practical guidance – comprehensive advice on transport, accommodation, budgeting, cultural norms and everything an independent traveller needs to plan confidently
• Where to eat well –covers Singapore’s best hawker centres, including details on the Chinese, Malay and Indian food stalls that in-the-know Singaporeans flock to for their favourite dishes

Bradt has been the publisher of choice for adventurous, independent travellers to the world’s less-visited destinations for over 50 years. Rooted in genuine expertise and a love of discovery, this guide will help you plan with confidence, travel independently and experience Singapore to the fullest.

About the Author

Daniel Robinson has been writing about travel in Southeast Asia for over three decades. His award-winning, pioneering Lonely Planet guides to Vietnam and Cambodia, the latter co-authored with Tony Wheeler, helped introduce Indochina to tourists and backpackers in the early 1990s. More recently, Daniel has covered Borneo for Lonely Planet and the New York Times. Throughout his career, Daniel has used Singapore as his regional base, a natural choice given his wife’s stint as a sociology professor at the National University of Singapore; their engagement party, complete with gamelan orchestra, was held at the HortPark. Over the decades, Daniel has explored Singapore’s lesser-known sights – back-alleys, rain forest trails, bike paths and possibly-haunted ruins – with adventurous Singaporean friends and has had a front-row seat as the island-state has risen from the smallest of the ‘Asian Tigers’ to one of the world’s most dynamic and successful economies – and, thanks to land reclamation, has grown from 680 sq km to 734 sq km. Daniel’s travel writing has been translated into 10 languages.

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