Check out the Chek Jawa Wetlands nature reserve when you visit Pulau Ubin in Singapore. — Photos: dpa
Asia’s cities are sometimes maligned and typecast as heaving concrete jungles bedevilled by chaotic or crawling traffic and the non-stop whirring of tens of thousands of motorcycles.
India’s cities have long had a bad reputation for smog and pollution, while Jakarta, Indonesia’s vast capital, is notorious for the “macet” – two and three-hour commutes that should ordinarily take no more than 10 or 15 minutes in free-flowing traffic.
