ASIA SINGAPORE DESTINATIONS A new


Go green with a twin-centre stay in Singapore and Bintan, writes Tamara Hinson


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here’s something rather surreal about watching a


monkey scramble along a branch when you’re just a few miles from the beating heart of Asia's biggest financial centre. But I shouldn’t really be surprised – Singapore is no longer famous for its banking alone. Since declaring independence


in 1965, this city-state has been on a mission to transform itself into a garden city, and it’s succeeding in that effort. Singapore recently came top in MIT’s Green View Index, which counts the number of trees in cities around the world. One of its greenest spaces is Windsor Nature Park, the city’s


leaf


Watching a monkey scramble along a branch just miles from Asia’s biggest financial centre is surreal


newest nature reserve and home to some of its rarest species, including pangolins, terrapins, 50 species of dragonfly and more monkeys than I can count. Some of the reserve’s residents


are harder to see, so we learn to keep an eye out for gatherings of other people, as well as wildlife. At one point, we turn a corner


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