Submitted by Rebecca Beswick on the 2022 spring semester exchange program with the National University of Singapore…
While Singapore is a small island about 30 miles across, Singapore also has claim to some smaller islands speckling the ocean in the south. A common activity for tourists and Singaporeans is to go “island hopping” on the Southern Isles. You can buy one ticket for a ferry which will take you to see three islands: St. Johns, Lazarus, and Kuso. On the islands, people go swimming in clear waters and have picnics. It was interesting because the islands are right on the border with Indonesia and the coast of Indonesia was readily visible. Additionally, we had to go through customs on our way back onto the mainland.