Singapore

This small city state at the Southern top of the Malakka peninsula is a well-known international transport hub and famous for its almost aseptic cleanliness and cosmopolitan flair. Is it worth a stopover?

Heraldic figure

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Skyline of the city's business districts

Skyline at night - as seen from the Boat Quay

A rarity in Singapore: Dirty buildings

Mosques, temples, churches - a genuine multireligious society

It calls itself Chinatown, but the original Chinese flair has faded away. A disappointment for people who have already been to China.

The Parliament of the city state. Everything not strictly allowed seems to be prohibited here.

Another administration building. This specific architecture makes it a leftover from colonial times.

Skyline - with a quadrilingual sign in the front. Written in Chinese, English, Malai and Hindi - as almost everything here.