Secret Singapore Guide

Secret Singapore Guide Synopsis

Let Secret Singapore guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Singapore guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring 160 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Singapore guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

• Spot a lighthouse on the top of a 25-storey apartment block
• See unique rocky area that looks like Guilin in China
• Discover the remains of a Shinto shrine built in the jungle by prisoners of war
• Find the houses from the Ming and Qing periods donated by Jackie Chan
• Witness the bottoms of soya-sauce bottles used to decorate the Sultan Mosque
• See the 'leaning tower' of Singapore
• Explore the last remaining stretch of natural beach
• Spot the beautiful modernist door of a former biscuit factory
• Uncover a hidden kampong (rural village) dwarfed by residential towers
• Marvel at the splendidly preserved old Changi prison gates
  

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Singapore offers many off-beat experiences and is home to plenty of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Singapore well or would like to discover another side of the city-state.

From the publishers of the best-selling Secret London:an unusual guide comes this 2nd edition of Secret Singapore guide. Authors Heidi Sarna and Jerome Lim have thoroughly explored the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked to create this definitive insider's guide to Singapore.