Singapore Country Overview
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Country Overview
This city has met the new millennium head on, and is a masterpiece of modern technology and skyscrapers of gleaming glass and concrete. Known throughout the world for its cleanliness and crime free streets Singapore is still a city of the people, and what a mix of people at that. Chinese, Malay, and Indian cultures paint the city with bright influences of feng shui, the call of the Imam from the Sultan Mosque, and sari's and Hindu gods.
Daily Budget
Singapore is not cheap, but if you don't mind standing with your nose pressed against the glass drooling at the tempting goodies inside shops instead of rushing in and flinging your cash around, it is possible to come out on about US$30 a day, if you stay in hostels and eat really cheaply. For the healthier sum of US$88-90 a day you could stay in fair to middling hotels and enjoy the divine cuisine of the country at good restaurants.
When to Go!
Weather is not of primary concern in Singapore; rather concentrate on when the Chinese dragon roars in January or February bringing in the New Year, or when Buddha's birth is celebrated with fireworks and night markets on Vesak Day in May, or if you have the stomach for it, Thaipusam in February when devotees honour Lord Subramaniam by performing the grossest acts of body piercing that would make even Jim Rose's head spin.
Daily Budget
Singapore is not cheap, but if you don't mind standing with your nose pressed against the glass drooling at the tempting goodies inside shops instead of rushing in and flinging your cash around, it is possible to come out on about US$30 a day, if you stay in hostels and eat really cheaply. For the healthier sum of US$88-90 a day you could stay in fair to middling hotels and enjoy the divine cuisine of the country at good restaurants.
When to Go!
Weather is not of primary concern in Singapore; rather concentrate on when the Chinese dragon roars in January or February bringing in the New Year, or when Buddha's birth is celebrated with fireworks and night markets on Vesak Day in May, or if you have the stomach for it, Thaipusam in February when devotees honour Lord Subramaniam by performing the grossest acts of body piercing that would make even Jim Rose's head spin.
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