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Monday, July 11, 2011

World tour Places to Sentosa

World tour Locations: The most beautiful Island and a nice time to spend with families in Sentosa. It is to peace and tranquility in Malay, is a popular Island Resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year. Attractions include a two-kilometer long sheltered beach, Fort Siloso, two golf courses and two five-star hotels, and the Resorts World Sentosa, featuring the theme park Universal Studios Singapore. The island has an area of 5 square kilometers. It lies just half a kilometer away from the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. It is Singapore's fourth largest island. 70% of the island is covered by secondary rainforest, the habitat of monitor lizards, monkeys, peacocks, parrots as well as other native fauna and flora. The island also has 3.2 kilometer stretch of white sand beach. Significantly large portions of land are currently being added to Sentosa due to land reclamation.

Sentosa offers a variety of attractions, museums and other facilities to provide a variety of experiences, recreation and entertainment to visitors. The Tiger Sky Tower is free-standing observation tower on Sentosa. At a height of 110 meters above ground and 131 meters above sea level, it offers visitors a panoramic view of Sentosa, Singapore, and the Southern Islands. The Sky Tower used to sit at the very spot of what was formerly known as the Dragon Court. It has a dragon statue in the centerpiece with water spouting out from its mouth. Its tail ends at the dragon trail at the northern part of Imbiah Lookout. It was in the Imbiah Lookout zone in the centre of Sentosa and can be reached by Cable Car, Sentosa Luge Chair Lift, by Sentosa Express or by bus. The Butterfly Park is a landscape garden with over 15,000 live butterflies, representing more than fifty species. Housed in a cool outdoor conservatory, these butterflies range from the 25 millimeter (1 in) Eurema sari to the 150 mm (6 in) Papilio iswara. The Insect Kingdom houses some 3,000 species of rare insects from around the world, including a 160 mm Dynastes Hercules beetle.


Underwater World is an oceanarium located on the western part of Sentosa. Opened in 1991, the living museum has more than 2,500 marine and fresh-water animals of 250 species from different regions of the world. The oceanarium is underground and has an 83 meter long revelator that moves visitors along a submerged glass-windowed tunnel from which they can look at an array of marine life including a coral reef, stringrays, moray eels, turtles, sharks, and other fishes. The Underwater World also includes a Dolphin Lagoon which is home to some Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, also known as the pink dolphins.


The Sentosa Luge & Skyride has a self-steering, gravity-driven three-wheel cart. Originally from New Zealand, the non-motorized cart allows rider to speed down a hill over a course of 650 m ending at the Siloso Beach. At the end of the luge, there is the Sky ride that can allow rider to see from a high view. It also can be boarded at the start of the Luge. Palawan Beach lies in the centre of the southern coast of Sentosa. There is a suspension bridge that leads to a small islet off the coast which is said to be the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia, or Asia's closest point to the Equator. There are several bars along the beach offering food and beverage to visitors as well as Beach Station of Sentosa Express.



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