St. Gregory at Pan Pacific Singapore
Tui na done properly in hotel comfort: an hour of kneading along the meridians on Level 4 of the Pan Pacific, then tea, steam and a pool. For desk-bound shoulders.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: S$60 and above
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Hampstead Wetlands Park
A corner of the old Seletar golf course that flooded, grew its own forest and was kept: boardwalks, a pond and kingfishers in an aerospace park. Small, so pair it with lunch at The Oval.
- Where: Punggol & Seletar
- Price: Free
Cundhi Gong Temple
A two-storey 1928 temple on Keong Saik Road with porcelain dragons on the roof ridge, Belgian floral tiles on the five-foot way and painted trusses overhead. Five minutes, if you look up.
- Where: Keong Saik & Duxton
- Price: Free
The Pinnacle@Duxton Skybridge
A public sky garden on the 50th floor of an HDB estate, reached by registering an EZ-Link card at Block 1G. Go late afternoon and walk to the Block 1A end, which faces the sunset.
- Where: Keong Saik & Duxton
- Price: Under S$30
The Kallang
The renamed Sports Hub is best on a day with no big event: a kayak on the basin before the heat, lunch in a mall, the stadium lit up after dark. The water centre shuts on Tuesdays.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
Tanjong Rhu Pier
A free four-level lookout tower across the Kallang Basin from the CBD and the stadium. Come half an hour before sunset on a clear evening, then walk home over the lit footbridge.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
- Price: Free
Kallang Riverside Park
A five-hectare strip between two bridges most people cross without looking: the Kallang Gas Holder, otters by Stadium Link and egrets from September to March. Calm because it's overlooked.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
- Price: Free
Hell's Museum at Haw Par Villa
The Ten Courts of Hell, explained at last, inside a museum on death and the afterlife at Haw Par Villa. Not for under-9s; the rest of you will talk about it all the way home.
- Where: Queenstown
- Price: Under S$30
Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery
One of Singapore's oldest Buddhist monasteries, completed in 1907 with craftsmen and materials from China. A National Monument among Toa Payoh's HDB blocks; give it an unhurried hour.
- Where: Toa Payoh
- Price: Free
Katong Park
A dog-friendly park with a Victorian fort under the grass, one excavated bastion on view and a tree whose bark changes colour. Half an hour well spent; the playground is shut until 12 November.
- Where: Siglap & Tanjong Katong
- Price: Free
Burmese Buddhist Temple
A small Theravada temple off Ah Hood Road built around a three-metre Buddha, carved in Mandalay in 1918 from more than ten tons of marble. Twenty quiet minutes, well spent.
- Where: Balestier & Novena
- Price: Free
Wisma Geylang Serai
Two trips at one address: sunset in Ramadan for Singapore's best-known bazaar, and a quiet weekday the rest of the year for the building and the heritage gallery.
- Where: Geylang
- Price: Free
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Gardens by the Bay
Don't buy everything. Our guide to the conservatory, the viewpoint and the ticket that suit one evening at the Gardens, and what to leave for next time.
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A catch-up goes easier with a shared task. Choose pottery or climbing by the kind of concentration you want, and book a proper introduction rather than winging it.
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