- [Announcer] Yellow Productions presents.
- Sentosa Island, in Singapore.
Sentosa Island was originally a British military fortress
until 1972 when it was redeveloped
into the adults playground that you see on the video today.
The old remains of the fortress remain at Fort Siloso Point,
which is now a museum and has Asia's
largest collection of big guns,
and yes they are very big guns.
Sentosa Island has come a long way
from its past as a military fortress
and for an island that's just five square kilometers
it really has quite a few attractions.
You can think of it as Las Vegas
combined with a theme park in a rain forest at the beach.
The most scenic way to get into Sentosa Island
is to take the Jewel Box cable car
from the top of Mount Faber.
It costs 24 Singapore dollars for a round trip ticket
and the views are definitely amazing.
As you come into Sentosa Island on the cable car,
you pass over the Resorts World Complex,
which has a large water park
and is also home to Singapore's newest casino.
To the left, off in the distance, is Universal Studios.
If cable cars aren't really your thing,
you can also take these Sentosa Express Monorail
into Sentosa Island,
it leaves from the VivoCity Shopping Mall
and costs four dollars for the trip into Sentosa Island.
The return off of Sentosa Island
back to the Singapore mainland is free,
so you could do what I did and take the cable car
into the island and than the monorail back to the mainland.
And if you are really adventuresome,
you can walk to Sentosa Island
along the same bridge that the monorail goes on
and that will only cost you one dollar.
If you take the cable car onto the island,
you will arrive at Imbiah Lookout.
The small hill on Sentosa Island is known as Imbiah Lookout.
This is where the cable car stops from Mount Faber,
this is also where the Luge takes off,
there's a number of eateries
and other attractions up here as well.
If you like butterflies and insects,
this is your place to go.
I'm not really sure how they decided
that the Butterfly Park
should be combined with the Insect Kingdom,
I'd go to see the butterflies,
but not really the big insects, like that huge beetle.
If you are a big kid like me,
then you oughta check out the Sentosa Luge and Sky Ride.
It's part debagon part go kart, but all sorts of fun,
or at least that's what the sign says.
You got to get a helmet to get on the ride
and then they give you some instruction
and then down the hill you go.
One half of the luge ride is luging down the hill,
but than the other half of the ride is taking this ski lift
all the way back up to the top of the hill.
If you start at the top of the hill,
then you take the luge down
and the ski lift chair back to the top,
or you can start from the bottom at the beach
and take the ski lift chair up to the top
and then luge down.
Every luge ride comes with one skied share ride,
it's nice and scenic,
but in Singapore it's hot and it's sunny and it's noon
and I'm melting, it is hot on this chair.
If you are really feeling adventuresome
you can do the Mega Zip zip line,
I did, you can see I'm in the harness,
I just finished, pretty fun ride.
The zip line ride starts at the top of Imbiah Lookout
and goes down to this little island on the beach.
The zip line is 450 meters long, 75 meters high
and you reach speeds up to 50 kilometers per hour.
When you start at the top, they clip you in,
and then off you go down the hill.
It was so much fun I had to go a second time.
If beach going is your thing,
Sentosa Island has a couple of man made beaches,
they are nice and pictureus with white sand,
but not a lot of waves, just for swimming and waiting.
In addition to sand and palm trees,
Siloso beach is also fronted by
a number of beach clubs and bars.
Great if you didn't bring a towel,
but you still wanna be able to lounge.
Also at Siloso is the Wave House,
which is a man made wave, actually by a guy from San Diego,
so you can surf, just you gotta surf here at the Wave House.
For getting around the island
there's also a series of Sentosa buses.
They are free to ride and will take you
almost anywhere you wanna go in 10 minute intervals.
Along the beach instead of a bus
they operate an outdoor beach tram,
also at 10 minute intervals.
And the final attraction I'll mention is
the 37 meter tall Merlion, the mascot of Singapore.
There are five official merlion statues in Singapore,
this one being the largest.
So if your travels take you to Singapore,
definitely check out Sentosa Island,
where there are attractions for the kid in all of us.
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