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# Merlion · OpenVibe.Tours

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# Merlion

Singapore's official symbol, 8.6 metres tall and weighing 70 tons, spouts water daily on the south bank of the mouth of the Singapore river.

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![Merlion](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YTNYF3VCTV589DMZAB0E2V) Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASingapore_Merlion_BCT.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

3 more photos

- ![Merlion, photo 2 of 4](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YWNTB7V7YKV2WJA1KEXD11?w=640) Photo: Matthias Bethke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A010280_00001_Merlion%2C_Singapore.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- ![Merlion, photo 3 of 4](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M705JE9D9T7YDA5C729X08TZ?w=640) Photo: Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2016_Singapur%2C_Downtown_Core%2C_Merlion_%2801%29.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- ![Merlion, photo 4 of 4](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M705RK2J5SYVGN32NT6Z23NR?w=640) Photo: Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A2016_Singapur%2C_Downtown_Core%2C_Merlion_%2802%29.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

- [**Directions** open the map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=1.286785&mlon=103.854511#map=16/1.286785/103.854511)
- **Admission not confirmed**check before you go

## Why go

(The statue previously stood further down the river, but was moved in 2002 after the opening of the Esplanade Bridge.) Designed by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board in 1964, many a commentator has pondered on the inherent contradictions of a creature that is half-cat, half-fish.

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Singapore/Riverside)

## How to visit

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## See it live

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   Photo: Calvin teo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASingapore_Botanic_Gardens_Palm_Valley.jpg)
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   Photo: Shiny Things · CC BY 2.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASupertree_Grove%2C_Gardens_by_the_Bay%2C_Singapore_-_20120712-02.jpg)
3. ![Singapore Flyer](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YTRGX9AC47GJ72SMJF91Q1?w=640)

    

   

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   Photo: Dikaiosp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADikaiosp_210819_6963.jpg)
4. ![Singapore Zoo](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YTX2XNVDGWTGFA2TMSA2BC?w=640)

    

   

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   Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Terence assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY 2.5 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASingapore_Zoo.JPG)
5. ![Pulau Ubin](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YV024CRJKP5K93AETC6MK2?w=640)

    

   

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   Photo: BertholdD · CC BY-SA 3.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHouse_near_the_northern_coast_of_Pulau_Ubin%2C_Singapore_-_20050803.jpg)
6. ![Sultan Mosque](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M6YTRQ8ZTYSKPKXDER47FH0W?w=640)

    

   

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   Photo: Chainwit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMasjid_Sultan%2C_Singapore_%282023_June%29_-_img_02.jpg)

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