//To take in this vista, you need to follow some advice you’d scoff at in London or New York: Bypass the obvious viewing spots (in this case, high-altitude bars with prices to match) and find your way to an enormous public housing project. The Pinnacle @ Duxton is the world’s tallest public housing building, and its Sky Gardens on the 50th floor are the longest in the world. They offer an unmatched 360-degree view, allowing you to see everything from Sentosa and Singapore’s other small islands in the south to Malaysia just across the causeway in the north. Best of all, you’ll likely have the place to yourself. Two hundred tourists a day are permitted to enter (you pay $5 using a subway pass, once you’ve found the appropriate turnstile, tucked away behind a 7–11), but on the day I went there were only a few other people up there — two visitors and a few blasé residents. The Duxton website used to let people see how many tourist slots were still available on a given day, but the service seemed less than essential: The 200-person quota is seldom if ever used up.//
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:02:06 +0000
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