Best Day Trips From Singapore
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Day Trips From Singapore
Here is the list of 16 Best Day Trips From Singapore
1. Sentosa Island
Sentosa is the easiest day out in Singapore because it is barely a trip at all. The Sentosa Express monorail from VivoCity takes a few minutes, and you can also walk the boardwalk, ride the cable car from Mount Faber or drive across. Universal Studios, the S.E.A. Aquarium, Adventure Cove and the beaches at Siloso, Palawan and Tanjong each fill half a day, so pick two rather than all of them. No passport needed.
2. Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Known For : Legoland Malaysia Angry Birds Activity Park Johor Zoo
Johor Bahru sits directly across the water from Woodlands and is the classic day trip from Singapore. The Causeway is one of the busiest border crossings in the world, carrying around 350,000 travellers a day, so leave early and allow an hour or more at immigration on weekends, public holidays and school breaks. Bring your passport. The Glass Temple, City Square and cheaper food and salons are the draw.
Best Time: April to June
3. Legoland Malaysia, Johor Bahru
Legoland Malaysia is at Iskandar Puteri, about 20 km west of Johor Bahru, and it is why most families cross the border for a day. It opened in 2012 as the first Legoland in Asia and now has a water park and a SEA LIFE aquarium next to the theme park. Allow an hour and a half each way through the Second Link at Tuas, longer at the Causeway. Passport needed, and the park takes a full day.
4. Pulau Ubin, Singapore
Pulau Ubin is the closest thing Singapore has to its own countryside. A bumboat from Changi Point Ferry Terminal takes about ten minutes and leaves once it has twelve passengers, so mornings are easier. Hire a bicycle at the jetty for the trails, the Chek Jawa boardwalk and the old quarry lakes. Half a day is enough, a full day is better, and no passport is needed.
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5. Batam, Indonesia
Known For : Barelang Bridge Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall Water Sports in Batam
Batam is the quickest passport stamp out of Singapore. Ferries from HarbourFront and Tanah Merah take roughly 45 minutes to an hour to Batam Centre, Sekupang or Nongsa, so a morning sailing makes a real day trip. It is an industrial island rather than a beach one, and people come for seafood, spas, golf and shopping. Carry your passport and check the current entry rules for Indian passports.
Best Time: May to September.
6. Desaru Coast, Johor
Desaru is a beach resort strip on the Johor mainland, in the Kota Tinggi district about 60 km east of Johor Bahru. There is no ferry: you drive or take a coach over the Causeway or the Second Link, roughly two to two and a half hours each way. The Adventure Waterpark, the golf courses and a long quiet beach are the draw. Passport needed, and this is a full day, not a half day.
7. Bintan, Indonesia
Bintan lies 40 km from Singapore and the ferry from Tanah Merah to Bandar Bentan Telani takes about an hour, plus a shuttle to the resorts at Lagoi. A single day works only on the first sailing out and the last one back, and sailings are few, so most people give it a night. Beaches, mangrove tours, golf and spas are the point. Passport needed, and check current entry rules.
Best Time: March to October
8. Lazarus Island
Lazarus Island has the best beach of the Southern Islands and almost nothing else, so carry water, food and shade. Ferries run from Marina South Pier to St John's Island and a short causeway walk brings you over to Lazarus. Sailings are few, so plan on a full day rather than a couple of hours. No passport needed.
9. St John's Island, Singapore
St John's Island was a quarantine station and later a detention centre, and it still has that institutional feel among the mangroves and swimming lagoons. It is the Southern Islands ferry stop from Marina South Pier, about half an hour out, and the way across to Lazarus. Families come to picnic and fish. No passport, and the ferry timings make it a full day.
10. Kusu Island
Kusu Island can be walked end to end in about twenty minutes, which makes it the easiest Southern Island to pair with another. The name means tortoise island in Chinese, and there is a Tua Pek Kong temple and a Malay keramat on it. Boats leave from Marina South Pier. It gets crowded during the ninth lunar month pilgrimage, and no passport is needed.
11. Coney Island, Singapore
Coney Island needs no boat. Bridges at either end of Coney Island Park link it to Punggol Promenade, so you walk or cycle in from the MRT. The 81-hectare park has coastal forest, grassland and mangrove, a handful of small beaches, and no shops, taps or shelter, so bring water. Two to three hours covers it, which makes this the best free half day on the list.
12. Pulau Hantu
Pulau Hantu is two small islets, Pulau Hantu Besar and Pulau Hantu Kechil, joined by a sandbar that appears at low tide. The reefs are the reason to come, and it is one of the few places near the city to snorkel or dive. There is no scheduled ferry, so charter a boat from West Coast Pier or join an organised dive trip. Half a day, no passport.
13. Kota Tinggi Waterfalls, Johor
Kota Tinggi Waterfalls is the quieter Johor day trip, about two hours from Singapore once you are past the Causeway. Water comes down Gunung Muntahak into a chain of shallow pools you can sit in, with changing rooms and food stalls at the base. Weekends fill up with local families, so go on a weekday. Passport needed, and a long half day is enough.
14. Malacca (Melaka), Malaysia
Known For : The Shore Sky Tower A'Famosa Melaka Sultanate Palace Museum
Malacca is not really a day trip from Singapore, whatever the lists say. It is about 250 km away and coaches take four hours or more each way once the border is counted, so a same-day return buys four hours in the city for fourteen away. Give it a night. Jonker Street, A Famosa and St Paul's Hill sit in a UNESCO World Heritage centre listed in 2008. Passport needed.
Best Time: April to May; October
15. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Known For : Petronas Twin Towers Batu Caves KL Tower
Kuala Lumpur does not work as a day trip from Singapore. It is roughly 350 km away, four and a half to five hours by coach or train each way, or a one-hour flight that still eats three hours at each end. Two nights is the sensible minimum for the Petronas Towers, Batu Caves, Merdeka Square and the food. Passport needed.
Best Time: June to August, December to February
16. Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Known For : Boh Tea Plantation Mossy Forest Gunung Brinchang
Cameron Highlands is a two-night trip from Singapore rather than a day trip. The tea estates and cool weather sit around 500 km north, six hours or more each way by road, usually changing at Kuala Lumpur or Ipoh. The eight settlements around Tanah Rata and Brinchang repay the journey, just not in one day. Passport needed.
Best Time: January - March, June - July
Sentosa, Pulau Ubin and the Southern Islands need nothing more than a ferry ticket. Johor Bahru, Legoland, Desaru, Batam and Bintan need a passport and an early start, and the Causeway can swallow an hour on a bad morning. Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Cameron Highlands sit at the bottom because they are overnight trips, not day trips. Singapore packages average around Rs 57,000 per person.
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