Overview The British East India Company established a trading post on the island of Singapore in 1819. The main settlement up to that point was a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived around the coast, rivers and smaller islands. The British used Singapore as a strategic trading post along the spice route. It became one of the most important commercial and military centres of...read more Best Time to Visit Singapore is uniformly hot and humid year round however November and December tend to be more wet so best avoided.
Singapore Advice
The following are questions and answers from the main travel forum related to Singapore. To initiate a new question please visit our main travel forum.
