85A Palawan Beach Walk
Sentosa Island
Singapore 098521
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| View of the Palawan Beach from the observation deck at the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia. |
Singapore
is a small island but most of the attractions from nature to human marvel can be found in here. Try going to
Marina Bay, Sentosa Island, and Mount Faber and you’ll be amaze how human eagerness to reach the horizon collide with the beauty of nature.
Singapore is known as a Garden City and no
questions for that as everywhere you go lush greenery is almost
everywhere as it engulfs the whole city. However, although naturally
Singapore is a nation composed of several islands but
because of rapid urbanization, the disappearance of natural beaches is
so rampant. It was then replace with manmade structure or artificial
beaches for the locals and international tourist cravings.
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| The place is surrounded with beautiful landscape. The road that will lead you to beaches area feels like you're on your way to Camp John Hay in Baguio City. |
Singapore
is the best place to enjoy your vacation if you have enough money to
spare. There are places that you need to spend more than a hundred bucks
for a few hours but there are also some places that minimal amount of
money is required. When I say minimal around
SGD 10 and you’ll survive (ahahaha!), besides wherever you go in Singapore
as long as you have filled EZ link card then you can travel corner to
corner as most of its tourist destination is reachable by train, bus or
taxi. However, I don’t
recommend hiring a taxi because it is really expensive unlike using the
train which only cost you a few bucks depending how far your
destination of course.
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| The place is so pristinely maintained, it may look so artificial but way too picturesque. |
Since our plan is to visit most of the beaches they have in here what we did, we ride a monorail
express from Sentosa Station in Vivo City directly to
Beach Station that cost us SGD 2 around PHP 66.00 or USD
1.50. It includes an entrance fee to the island. Yup, I said it right,
there is an admission fee that cost us SGD 1 each. Well,
Sentosa is a beautiful island to have fun and enjoy with, thus SGD 1 is just a penny (wink wink ~ ahahaha!).
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| There are so many cottages/shades along the way if you want to rest or wait for the tram to arrive. |
When we arrived at the
Beach Monorail Station there is a tram that awaits passengers right away. But before that, we checked all the information first and found out that
Sentosa Island has a stretch of sheltered beach of more than 2 km (1.2 miles) on its southern coast. It is divided into three beaches named
Siloso, Tanjong and Palawan Beach. I laugh when I read the word ‘Palawan’ as it feels like home.
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| Overlooking from afar is the view of Merlion Statue serves as the background of Palawan beach. |
Well anyway, Balong, Lemwuel and I been to
Siloso Beach
already and quite admired the surrounding vicinity. I love how they
arrange the palm trees and boulders as if its naturally real. You’ll not
get bored as it’s considered as the hippest and coolest beach ever as
you can play volleyball,
football or simply wanders around. What I fond the most is the huge art
signs of letters
S.I.L.O.S.O. in the corner just beside the round about where the last station of ‘FREE’ tram is located. Just visit this (link) that i posted before for you to be aware what I am talking about
After few minutes of wandering around
Siloso Beach, we decided to check other beaches that lies here in
Sentosa. Again, we ride the ‘free’ tram back to the Beach station because
Palawan Beach is situated opposite to Siloso. Let’s say for example you’re in
Beach Station and you’re facing the bay, on your right is the Siloso while
Palawan is on your left along with Tanjong Beach.
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| The free tram ride the delivers tourist to and fro Palawan and Tanjong Beach. |
When we arrived at the
Beach station, we hop- off the tram and transferred to another tram that will lead us to
Palawan Beach. It took us only around 5 to 10 minutes
before the tram leave. Traveling to the area is a wonderful experience,
the beauty of the surroundings is impeccable. The area is clean and
lush greenery is everywhere. Beautiful lined pines
trees in both corners and lots of spring flowers covering the islands.
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| Bougainvillaea plants like the one above can be seen almost everywhere. |
There
are so many free tram services that runs to and fro the beach areas as
well, but if you have
more energy to spare why not try having a leisurely walk around as
there are many covered pathway going in here. You’ll love the place
because it’s like you’re going to
Baguio City in the Philippines as fresh air
encircling your way. You’ll not get lost because there are so many
signage all along, besides you can even ask locals or even tourist where
the place is as it is known to everybody.
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| Lined Pine trees on both side of the road. |
We
arrived the area in less than 10 minutes and first thing we’ve seen are
dwarf coconut trees
that covers the whole place. It’s so quite in here because we were the
only people visiting so far. There are so many tourist on the tram that
we ride on but I don’t know where they were going as we drop ourselves
to
Palawan Beach. With the limited beaches here in Singapore,
this kind of spot is a treat as always. They may not have natural
beaches, but this man-made delight is of great quality being pristinely
clean and safe for tourist to dip in.
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| When we arrived at the area, lined coconut trees greeted us in. |
For me,
Palawan Beach is designated for family while Siloso
is for party goers. It’s evident as the atmosphere that surrounds the
area here are themed like pirates with various playgrounds and wet play
areas. The main attraction here I would
say is the Port of Lost Wonder (POLW), a pirates theme kids play area located just a few walks away from
Beach Station.
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| Proof that you arrived in Palawan Beach, is when you see the signage above (ahahaha!). |
Although not as trendy and hip as
Siloso Beach yet I found the place refreshingly gorgeous and more relax as only few people where in there when we visit the area. There is a
Beach Walk that offers great stroll across the sandy beach
and heaps of trees lining up that provides adequate shades for the
guest to enjoy. You can bring your picnic baskets in here and enjoy the
scenery while enjoying your siesta.
We’ve seen two nearest restaurants in here too, the
Bora-Bora Beach Bar and the Club Insider. Bora Bora
which faces the ocean attracts clienteles at all time. They
serve pizzas, burgers and finger foods or savour specialties such as
seafood platter, and grilled chicken salad at this family friend venue.
Should you like to try more adult friendly concoctions
then try their Bora Mojitos, and the vodka based
fruitables. You can take the food indoor or at the shades outside. Try
their on deck chairs with great views of South China Sea or else, you
can rent a hammocks and a pool table for SGD 2.
Personally, I think
Palawan beach is even better than Siloso Beach.
It’s secluded yet very tourist friendly. If you want to have a
relaxation without thinking about someone disturbing you then this is a
place to visit. You can bring your book with you
to read while enjoying the enchanting view of the sea.
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| Our BFF Lemwuel having fun since no one is around (ahahaha!). |
If you’re
planning a visit to Palawan Beach do note that admission fees varied
depending on the attractions you’re visiting. Also, allocate between 1
to 3 hours viewing
and bring plenty of water as only few outlet can be seen in here. Part
of the beach can be pretty crowded especially on week-ends but during
our visit its barely empty.
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| Look, who may say that these sands were imported from Malaysia and Indonesia, huh? It looks so REAL!!!!! |
One last
thing, who cares if the sand is imported and the beac is manmade. This
is one beautiful beach to indulge in to have a lovely picturesque and
palmfringed
little beach for the families. This is one of the many attractions that
you don’t need to spend a dime to dip in except the entrance fee to the
island. The best thing is that you can see the southern most point of
continental asia that I will feature next.
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| You can bring your family along. Have fun and enjoy the sunshine!. |
I’ll park here now guys. Have a great and pleasant night/day to everyone.
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| Sunburn is the product of no sunblock! point is: W E WNJOYED IT BIGTIM!!!! (ahahahaha!) |
Always have time to smile…
Cheerrssssss
Enan signing off..
:)
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