9. Cable Car to Sentosa

I’ve been on plenty of cable cars before, having spent many winters on at least one snowboarding holiday, but not like this one. Sentosa is Singapore’s answer, albeit a massively downscaled answer to Disney World. It’s a small island about 500 metres off the southern coast and you can either drive or walk across the short bridge or take a 2 minute boat ride over the narrow stretch of sea.

There is also another route over to the island (not including swimming) and that’s to take the cable car. Much like those seen in the Alps this one, touted as the oldest in the world as it was built in 1974, leaves from the top floor of one of the Trade Towers on the mainland and heads over the water to the highest point on Sentosa Island. As well as the normal cable car there is also the option of paying and extra S$5 and getting a glass bottom one which is definitely not for those with a fear of heights. To anyone who has skied in Val d’Isere, if you want to imagine what the glass bottom one is like imagine taking the crazy chair lift that drops off the cliff from the main valley into La Fornet but constantly being at the top of that mountain ridge. Well it’s a bit like 10 minutes of that. None the less, we opted for this type of car and it was certainly worth it. Not only are the views better but we got to jump the queue on the way back ahead of those waiting on the regular cars.