Sentosa Island

Sentosa Island is small island located off of Singapore (actually also an island).  It is a resort play space for Singaporeans.  They have carved out 3 beaches to enjoy since Singapore has no natural beachfront.  Singapore is mostly industrial with ports or rocks all around the island.  They imported sand (more like dirt) and have 3 man made beaches that are coved off from the South China Sea.  The water is more a bay than ocean front.  It's totally tropical looking- just wish the sand was soft and the water was crystal clear.

They have built a really cool look out tower so you can get views to Indonesia and some sights back towards the island.  

The South China Sea is also a busy sea transit area and Singapore is a major hub for shipping.  So the view into the ocean is not like anything you've ever seen before.   There are a multitude of container ships out there and then off in the distance is Indonesia with all those towers spewing smoke.  

Sentosa has about 15 different hotels and we've already tried out 2!  We visited the Shangri-La for the girls birthday.  This hotel was beach front with a beautiful pool.

For my birthday we went to Sentosa Resort and Spa.   The was a more quite resort where you could almost forget you had wifi available.

While on this trip we got to see a beautiful peacock with it's feathers displayed.

Sentosa has lots of great restaurants and other fun things to do like zip lines and a street luge.  We did the street luge on a day trip once.  Here's a couple quick photos of that.

Not us- just a stock photo so you could get the idea.  

Riding the chair lift up the hillside.

Hope you enjoyed a little bit of Sentosa being brought to life for you.