Tourist at home: Step back in time at Singapore’s last mainland village

The kampung off Yio Chu Kang Road has all the modern amenities wthat city people are all used to. - The Straits Times/Asian News Network

SINGAPORE, Oct 5 (The Straits Times/ANN): Like many children in Singapore, my seven-year-old daughter grew up in high-rise, concrete flats and is well-versed in the virtual online worlds of games like Minecraft.

So I was eager to take her, my wife and our 20-month old toddler to Let's Go Tour's Kampong Experience tour, which promised to give a glimpse of how rural living in Singapore is like.