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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.
2 km · about 5 min drive
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Tanglin Halt
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About Tanglin Halt
Tanglin Halt works well as a base: 2km from Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Tanglin Halt is in Singapore, with about 11,000 people. You drive on the left here.
Tanglin Halt is a public housing estate, planning subzone and former industrial estate in Queenstown, Singapore. Most of the older buildings in the estate are set to be demolished by 2024 to make way for redevelopments under the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme. It is the third housing estate to be redevelopedRead more
under the scheme.
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Within an hour or so of Tanglin Halt: Singapore Botanic Gardens (2 km), Haw Par Villa (3 km), Tiong Bahru Market (4 km), Singapore Chinatown (5 km).
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Tanglin Halt is in Singapore.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 10,590
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Singapore
- Timezone
- Asia/Singapore
- Coordinates
- 1.3014, 103.7975
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Worth the detour from Tanglin Halt
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
3 km · about 5 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.
4 km · about 10 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.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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S.E.A. Aquarium Singapore
One of the world's largest aquariums on Sentosa Island with over 100,000 marine animals across 50 habitats.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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National Gallery Singapore
Southeast Asia's largest visual arts institution, housed in two beautifully restored national monuments.
6 km · about 10 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.
6 km · about 10 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.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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