Our Cycling Route Through Singapore

Our cycling route through Singapore

The map above shows the route we cycled through Singapore. We entered Singapore from Johor Bahru in Malaysia and exited via the airport to Perth, Australia.

There isn’t much to say about cycling in Singapore as the distance from the border crossing at Johor Bahru to the southern coast is only 20 miles. The first important thing to note is that Singapore is the only country in Asia that allows you to get “cycling directions” on Google maps and I’m happy to report that it does actually send you onto cycle paths.

From the border (with thanks to Google maps) we took a fairly quite route through the city, the first part was mostly on roads and the final 8 miles were mostly on cycle paths. The closer you get to the “city center”, around the Marina Bay area the more cycle paths you will find.

Singapore is much more pedestrian and cyclist friendly than other countries in Asia and getting around is much quicker.

As there isn’t much else to say I’ll give some quick information about crossing the border from Malaysia as when you look at the map it can be quite confusing as there’s a huge spaghetti mess of roads leading into and out of the border crossing.

To get into Singapore you need to get onto highway 188, we entered from the south (see map above). Once on this road simply follow the sign posts for “motosikal”, this should filter you off to the left and quickly direct you to a set of traffic lights at which point it will direct you to turn left.

After turning left you’ll quickly arrive at the Malaysian border crossing, when we arrived there was a small red traffic sign saying “Non-motorsikals and foreigners”. We followed the arrow on this sign which led us to the passport stamping point.

After getting your exit stamp follow the arrows and cross the big bridge into Singapore. After the bridge you will join a huge queue of Motorcycles, it’s a chaotic mess of motorbikes here as everyone selfishly tries to push to the front. The queue will likely be spread quite wide but nearly everyone is trying to go to the right hand side. For foreigners you need to go to the left. It’s best to slowly make your way up the left hand side and around all of the motorcycles.

Once you’re past the massive pile of motorcycles you’ll see a row of border posts just like on the Malaysian side, the first post is specifically for bicycles so it’s best to go to this one.

Once you’ve have your passport checked (Note: they don’t stamp your passport in Singapore) proceed to the border crossing exit. At the exit you need to continue straight and go up and over the bridge. The exit immediately to the left leads to the motorway and you are not permitted to cycle here.

If you'd like to take a closer look at our route or use it for your plans you can download the .kml file using the button below. For PC users you can view this file type in "Google Earth Pro", available here: google.com/earth/versions/, for Android users we recommend maps.me and for iPhone users we also recommend maps.me.

Daily Cycling Activity

Below is a breakdown of our daily cycling activity, you can see our exact route and final destination each day using the map at the top of the page.