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Singapore Zoo
Award-winning tropical zoo using open-concept enclosures set within a lush rainforest environment.
21 km · about 25 min drive
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Skudai
Johor, Malaysia · Asia
About Skudai
Skudai is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Kempas, 21km from Singapore Zoo.
Skudai is in Johor, Malaysia, with about 160,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Kempas, about 4 km away.
Skudai (also spelled Sekudai) is a town in Johor, Malaysia. It is about 13 km northwest from Johor Bahru's central business district.
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What is there to see near Skudai?
Within an hour or so of Skudai: Singapore Zoo (21 km), Singapore Botanic Gardens (30 km), Haw Par Villa (31 km), Little India (34 km).
Where is Skudai?
Skudai is in Johor, Malaysia, about 4 km from Kempas.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 159,733
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Malaysia
- Region
- Johor
- Timezone
- Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
- Coordinates
- 1.5374, 103.6578
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Worth the detour from Skudai
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Singapore Botanic Gardens
A UNESCO World Heritage tropical garden featuring the National Orchid Garden with over 1,000 species and hybrids of orchids.
30 km · about 35 min drive
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Haw Par Villa
A 1937 theme park built by the Tiger Balm brothers, best known for the Ten Courts of Hell: lurid dioramas of Buddhist punishments in painted concrete. Entry is free and it remains defiantly strange.
31 km · about 35 min drive
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Little India
Singapore's most colorful and aromatic neighborhood with Hindu temples, spice shops, flower garlands, and authentic South Indian cuisine.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Tiong Bahru Market
A two-storey hawker centre in Singapore's oldest housing estate, where stalls such as Jian Bo Shui Kueh and Hong Heng prawn noodles have traded for decades. Wet market below, food centre above.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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National Gallery Singapore
Southeast Asia's largest visual arts institution, housed in two beautifully restored national monuments.
35 km · about 40 min drive
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Singapore Chinatown
A vibrant district blending traditional Chinese temples, heritage shophouses, bustling hawker centers, and modern bars along Pagoda Street.
35 km · about 40 min drive
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Maxwell Food Centre
One of Singapore's most iconic hawker centres serving legendary affordable dishes like Hainanese chicken rice and char kway teow.
35 km · about 40 min drive
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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