Blue Panda

Singapore

The city that works, and the causeway to the one that sprawls.

From AED 5,299 per person

From Dubai
About 7h 30m
Best months
February to April
Visa
Visa-free for many passports
Currency
Singapore dollar

Singapore is small, humid and improbably well organised: a city of glass towers with a rainforest in the middle of it, hawker centres holding Michelin stars, and an island theme park a cable car ride from downtown. Kuala Lumpur, four hours up the road, is the opposite temperament, louder and looser, with limestone caves and a mountain resort on its doorstep. One trip takes both, two nights in the first and three in the second.