Singapore guide: how to spend a long weekend in the Garden City
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Singapore guide: how to spend a long weekend in the Garden City
Let's get it out of the way: you have to do Gardens by the Bay. You just do. Unlike some of London's major tourist attractions (which any good local will usually tell you aren't worth the crowds), most Singaporeans actually rate the manmade forest of so-called 'Supertrees' and visit for the light show, which happens at 7.45pm and 8.45pm every evening. I don't know if it was my wimpish nature, the humidity or the jet lag, but the first time I visited GBTB (note: this is a nation that loves acronyms) and stumbled upon the start of the light show by accident, I nearly cried.
