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SINGAPORE
Your preferred meetings destination
WORLD SHAKESPEARE CONGRESS 2021
FOOD
Food is an acknowledged national obsession. The range
of excellent food, in diversity of both cuisines and
budgets, is unmatched elsewhere in the world.
FOOD: HAWKER CENTERS
A hawker center is an open-air complex housing many stalls that sell a variety of
inexpensive food, set up as a more sanitary option to street food.
Some of the most popular hawkers centers are Clementi Market and Food Centre
(about 2 miles from NUS), Lau Pasat (15 minutes by taxi), Chinatown (20 minutes by
taxi), and Tiong Bahru (15 minutes by taxi).
FOOD: CHINATOWN
FOOD: LITTLE INDIA
FOOD: HOLLAND VILLAGE AND DEMPSEY HILL
Gardens by the Bay
NATURE: GARDENS
NATURE: GARDENS
Also: • National Orchid Garden • Singapore Botanic Gardens
Cloud Forest
NATURE: BEACHES
• Tanjong Beach, Sentosa • East Coast Park • Kusu Island • Palawan Beach, Sentosa • Changi Beach Park • Pulau Ubin
NATURE: ANIMALS
• Singapore Zoo
• Night Safari • River Safari • Jurong Bird
Park • S.E.A.
Aquarium
CULTURE: MUSEUMS
National Museum of Singapore
CULTURE: MUSEUMS
Singapore Art Museum Also: • Asian
Civilisations Museum
• ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands
CULTURE AND HISTORY
• Malay Heritage Centre
• St Andrew’s Cathedral
• Raffles’ Landing Site
• Sri Mariamman Temple
• Sultan Mosque • Kong Meng San
Phor Kark See Temple
CONCURRENT EVENTS
SUMMER 2017
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
National Museum of Singapore
14 June 2021
SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS
Summer 2021, over a month long
SINGAPORE FOOD FESTIVAL
July 2021