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A 400-million-year-old limestone hill with 272 rainbow steps up to the Tamil Sri Subramaniam Swamy Temple — the most-visited Hindu site outside India.

A 4km easy ridge walk just outside Ubud center — 1 hour each way, through rice paddies with Mount Agung views. Free, no guide needed.

The world's largest weekend market — 8,000+ stalls across 27 acres selling everything from antiques to pet crickets. Open Sat/Sun only.

Singapore's only preserved WWII coastal fort, with tunnels, gun emplacements, and the Surrender Chambers where Japan signed the surrender that ended the war in SE Asia.

A 280m pedestrian bridge connecting Marina Centre with Marina South, designed to look like a DNA double helix. Free, lit up at night.

The historic square where Malaya declared independence in 1957. Flanked by the iconic 1897 Moorish-style Sultan Abdul Samad Building — KL's most-photographed facade.

Home to Singapore's iconic 8.6m Merlion statue — half lion, half fish — spitting water into Marina Bay. Free, open 24/7.

A red-brick neo-Romanesque cathedral built by the French in 1880 — twin 58m bell towers, all materials shipped from France. Active Catholic cathedral.

Sentosa's most family-friendly beach with shallow water, a 1.7km suspension bridge to the "southernmost point of continental Asia", and a pirate-ship play structure.

The iconic emerald-green rice terraces 10 minutes north of Ubud — a UNESCO-worthy landscape of subak irrigation dating to the 9th century.