(thte 37m-Merlion and the Merlion Walk)
SENTOSA - an artificial tourist site which used to be a fortress.
Yeah, tempus fugit. On Feb 15, 1942 surrendered the Britons with 88000 soldiers against incoming 33000 Japanese. In 1968, the military island got the name Sentosa (Malay for peaceful and quiet), and the gov started to transform the island into a tourist hot-spot.
Besides some trashy features, you definitely need to check out Sentosa. You get a great overview on the Skytower (110m) as well as the big Merlion (37m), new insights in the Fort Sentosa Museum in the bunke tunnels created by the British. However, you can also do some mind-numbing activities such as the Sentosa-4d-Magix mad-pirate-movie. Anyhow, just sitting on a nice terrace and chill-out with a S$8-Coffee Bean Chocolate-Banana-Drink while reading in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" is quite ok.
Instead of walking back (as I did when I came in and had to make a bit detour, since the front side of the island, towards downtown, is under huge construction works) you take the monorail and glide directly back to shopping at vivocity.
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