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Mar 06

Day 9: Mount Faber, Sentosa!

To visit Singapore and not see Sentosa would be akin to visiting Agra and not seeing the Taj Mahal.

Sentosa, Singapore’s tourist focussed island is approx 5 kilometers and has a multitude of things a tourist can indulge in - from astounding natural attractions like the Animal, Bird, Butterfly, Insect, Dolphin lagoons and Underwater Worlds to amazing man-made wonders like the Carlsberg Sky Tower, 4D Magix, Flying Trapeze, the Lost Civilization, and the Luge & Skyride - to name but a few!!! The island is also home to the tallest Merlion in Singapore, the trademark symbol of Singapore.

You can get to Sentosa by various means such as the MRT, public/private buses, taxis/cars, the special Setosa express and of course, by cable cars. We happily chose the last option as that in itself seemed great fun!

We accessed the cable cars from Mount Faber (one could also get on at the HarbourFront) and we were simply blown away by the stunning beauty of the place! I definetely recommend you visit Mount Faber!

One can also experience what Mount Faber terms as “Sky Dining” - a fabulous customised fine dining experience 70 mtrs above the sea! And the cable cars themselves are all spruced up to add to the whole dining experience:

We of course took a regular cable car to travel to Sentosa. Each cable car had buttons which one could press - there were choice for language - and voila… a recording told us exactly what we were passing over at what time - very nice! The cable car literally goes through the building at the HarbourFront - you feel like you’re in an Arnie movie and about to smash into a building - whoa! Post the HarbourFront, I was also excited to get my very first glimpse of the Merlion… oh, how Singapore! The Merlion was the first & last attraction I saw on the island!

Once you reach Sentosa, you are armed with a Map which brilliantly locates every attraction on the island and lets you choose where you want to go and what you want to do. We actually went through the map the previous day - and I suggest you do the same, given the chance (you can pick up one free at Changi airport) - so that we could highlight exactly what we wanted to see and in what approximate order we’d do it, so as to get the maximum distance & attractions covered in the day.

The entire island is connected by buses and beach trams - all free of cost (there’s an entrace fee to the island as well as to most attractions in the island though). Both the buses & beach trams were extremely easy to use and color coded to show exactly where they were going.

(some of them even had cute guys in ‘em!)

There are also signs everywhere in the island to guide one to their chosen destination…

Like, The Fort Siloso Tour- loved this the best - got to know a lot about the history and heritage of Singapore. Besides the guided tour, they had “largest collection of World War II memorabilia with life-sized replicas, interactive exhibits and even authentic aromas are lovingly recreated, … more than 245 photographs, documents and film clips on display”.