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 Singaporean here! (jon)Welcome to the smallest country in Asia. Not even kidding. But also the richest country.  Most Singaporeans speak an almost perfect English, often as their first language. Don't be surprised when you walk in and you might find folks speaking better English than their western counterparts.  Singapore's in the divide between east and west, so folks aren't very concerned about race at all and both eastern and western traditions exist within the webbing of this society - you'll find Singapore the most multi-cultural city in the world, and the easiest to co-exist as well. That being said, if you're a westerner, you'll still be assumed to be a tourist. Hitchhiking is very rare within Singapore, mainly because it is a city and public transport is very good. So most folks here would have only seen it in movies and books. You'll get surprised faces. Also, there's a law that's stricter than 99% of countries in the world - cars here can't be owned past 20 years. And every 10 years you pay 40,000 USD to renew your license. So every car is generally worth about upwards of 100,000 USD (even the cheapest toyotas) ... which leads to people being really careful with their vehicles. Not sure if this would affect hitchability because I've never tried. But yeah it's interesting because everyone who drives past you with anything above a Camry is likely a millionare in assets.

From the Airport, take the "JB Shuttle Bus" which takes you to JB = [[Johor Bahru]] in Malaysia, just over the border. Cost: $7 10 SGD (sept 2011feb 2020)

You Take the metro red line to Marsiling station and walk 15 minutes to Woodlands Immigration Checkpoint. After passport and customs control, you will come out at the bus station for buses to the Malaysian immigration checkpoint across the causeway separating Singapore from Malaysia. From here, you can either take the bus or try to hitch from walk there. Walking will take about 25 minutes: walk to the end of the bus platform and follow the "walking man" sign, down to the bottom of the spiral stairway, and through a small tunnel to the bridge across the station causeway. There is a narrow pavement where it is possible to walk safely on the bridge until the road climbs and splits into various lanes. At this point, carefully cross over to the north lane for cars and then later the one for buses (direction Johor / it can feel somewhat scary to walk this part without the pavement but usually the traffic is backed up from the checkpointand going slow)and you will arrive at the point where the buses off-load their passengers for Malaysian immigration and customs control. Just follow the people up the escalators to the immigration hall. Once past immigration, with you will arrive at the bus station. Just follow the road out a sign would helpshort while… this road eventually leads onto the highway to KL. You can start hitching here (1.46640°N 103.76821°E) although there isn’t much room for cars to pull over, or you can walk down the road 500m to where the trucks coming out from immigration and customs control and heading in the direction of KL join this main road to the highway (1°28'05.6"N 103°46'07.1"E).

Or you can walk It could be possible to customs, around 15 minutes, head towards hitch from the "checkpoint". Once past customs and you have your passport stamped, you come out in a bus station, you will need a ticket to board one, but you can also follow the "walking man" sign. It leads towards centre of the bridge that makes the border. You may be stopped where there is a small lay-by several police officers stating that you can't walk but often this is full of scooters and it’s not possible for cars to Malaysiapull over. Say that you know what you are doing Also, the fact that someone will pick you this is a border area makes drivers nervous about picking up there. Don't mention you are hitchhiking, they will just keep you longer telling you it's forbidden, hitchhikers and there's nowhere to pull over. Just stick to the pickis also a ‘no-up story. Walk along the narrow side of the road, one minute, to the center of pedestrian’ sign on the bridge where there will be a large enough space for cars . Better to stop. Hitch from there. There's a lot of traffic get past immigration and you won't wait longstart hitching on the Malaysian side.

== Public Transport Airport ==Singapore has a very good public transport system, with a metro (MRT) doing the very long distances as well as many buses. Prices are usually relative to the distance for buses, but the MRT seems to be around $3 even for very long distances.I would not try to jump the gates of the MRT as there are cameras EVERYWHERE in Singapore. I don't know what the fine might be, but considering that you can be imprisoned for 7 years if you steal an apple in a shop or sentenced to death if you smoke a joint, I would not try... ([[User:toortoth|toortoth]])

== Airport ==If you arrive by flight to SIN, and plan to cross the border overland, make sure you made a fake return e-ticket from SIN (to anywhere). There is a high chance that they ask you for your return itinerary at the check-in counter of the departure airport. It's a new regulation in Singapore Customs. While in some cases if you explain you go overland they may let you in, they also can be annoying. While leaving CDG to SIN with Singapore Airlines they accepted my explanations, but when I left MEL to SIN with Jetstar they just didn't accept any explanation and I had to buy a ticket I would never use departing from SIN, at last minute leaving me no choice ([[User:toortoth|toortoth]]). So make a fake, with a frame from another airline (in case they want to check in their own system, but they never do, it would be too long to check itineraries of all passengers, especially calling other companies). Cheapest ticket out of the country is most likely the Singapore-Batam ferry, can be booked online on batamfast.com for SGD15. Officially suggested by Jetstar.

'''Singapore Buddhist Lodge.''' The Kim Yan Road temple serves free vegetarian breakfast(07:00-09:00), lunch (11:30-14:00) and dinner from 7am to 7pm(17:00-19:00). All are welcome regardless of their race or religion. In the queue one can find all sorts of people, from the homeless, unemployed, foreign students, foreign construction workers and of course some freeloaders who work nearby.

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