Visit the former quarantine camp and penal colony
📝 Singapore Travelogue part14: St. John's Island 📝
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St. John's Island (St. John Island & Lazarus Island) is a small island to the south of Singapore, about 6.5 kilometers from the main island of Singapore. It can be reached by boat from Marina South Pier, with about 4/5 boat trips per day.
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The development history of the island can probably be traced back to 1901, when it was first established as a quarantine transit station for cholera immigrants. Later, it became a penal colony and a drug rehabilitation center, carrying a bit of a mysterious and dark attribute.
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However, those dark pasts belong to yesterday. Today, St. John's Island is a leisure and holiday resort, at most used as a base for military training/team building. But when there's no one around, wandering around the dormitories on the island, you can still faintly feel the atmosphere of the former quarantine camp 😂
Visited on November 6, 2016
Nice place to go for a picnic. The beaches are beautiful, and you may go to Lazarus Island on foot from Saint John's Island.
The Garpo Agricultural and Grain Veterinary Bureau established a marine breeding center in the south of St. John's Island, a marine breeding center set up at a cost of 33 million yuan, mainly to study the technology of large-scale incubation of fish eggs and breeding fish fry. In recent years, some tourists have photographed dolphins in the sea of St. John. Dolphins are very cute animals. I can't think of seeing them on St. John.
Very beautiful St. John's Island, there are very few people on the island, and there are not many local residents. Compared with Sentosa, it is simply a paper drunk and gold fan. It is a very quiet and comfortable place.
St. John's Island belongs to Singapore. An island that has not been commercialized. There are regular cruises to and from Singapore's main island every day. The scenery of St. John's Island is pleasant, and walking on the beach is also pleasant. If you stay in Singapore for a period of time, you can take a half-day trip to St. John's Island. Maybe you will have a different experience.
If there are three tickets, go to the island next door for half a day
Used to visit before the pandemic. Nice “private” island to relax, away from our busy lives in mainland Singapore. We missed the ferry back and had fun hiring a speedboat back to Mainland. Will visit again!