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Fort Siloso

  • July 1, 2008
  • Rated 4 of 5 by marseilles from Metro Manila, Philippines
Fort Siloso

The bus tour I'd taken the day before included a free bus ride to Sentosa, so I decided to do the touristy thing and visit the island. I'd been to Sentosa as a child, before it became the Disneyland of resort islands, and I was curious to see how much it had changed.

Of course, there isn't much for a pregnant woman traveling alone to do in Sentosa, so I decided to limit my itinerary to just one thing: scratching my WW2 itch.

See, I've always been really interested in WW2. I've been reading WW2-related books since childhood. Both my grandfathers as well as my grandfather-in-law fought in that war, and my grandmother was a war nurse of sorts.

So being in Singapore, such an important WW2 spot, I knew I had to do something related to WW2.

And Sentosa had just the thing. What used to be an artillery battery during WW2 has been restored and houses a WW2 exhibit.

It took me about an hour to do the self-guided walking tour (it normally takes an hour and half, but I didn't do the parts that involved climbing steep flights of stairs). The life-size dioramas were impressive, but the most moving bit was the an exhibit of drawings by Western POWs who had been interned in the Japanese camps in Singapore during the war.

Sentosa Island has a S$2 entrance fee, and there's an additional S$8 fee for Fort Siloso. A tram takes you up the fort from the entrance gate, and you walk the rest of the way. Exhibits are open from 10am - 6pm daily (last admission 5.30pm). There are free guided tours on weekends at 11 AM and 4 PM.

From journal Culture and History in Singapore

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