The Lonely Planet Six Degrees concept is to explore the world's coolest cities by connecting with the people who live in them. By emphasising the human dimension of travel, Lonely Planet Six Degrees moves beyond sightseeing and offers the surest way of being whisked off your feet and fast-tracked to the heart of the city. Avoiding the well known tourist attractions, each Lonely Planet Six Degrees journey begins with a traveler arriving in a new city with just a single point of contact. From this initial encounter a chain of connectivity is forged across the city as one person leads to another and another and another. Meeting six strangers in sixty minutes, our traveller experience the city through the eyes of some of its most colourful and clued-in residents, proving that it's the people, the lives they lead, and the stories they tell that give a city its soul, rather than just the bricks and mortar.

LONELY PLANET: SIX DEGREES Singapore
Presenter Asha Gill hits the ground with fast-talking, Vespa-riding foodie KF Seetoh, the man behind Singapore food bible Makansutra. Seetoh gives Asha an insight into Singapore food as performance art. Seetoh hooks Asha up with local Malay-surf-punks Force Vomit, who take her on their 'Liberate Singapore' campaign to promote their band at the Great Singapore Sale and local rave Zouk-Out. Force Vomit introduce Asha to gender-bending sari-clad, cabaret icon Kumar, who shows her how even a non-mainstream personality like himself can be accepted into the Singapore mainstream as well as his ethnic haunts in Little India. Asha continues to meet people in the strangest places, bumping into Jack Sim of the Singapore Restroom Association in the ladies powder room. He cajoles her into joining their Happy Toilet rating campaign designed to improve the quality of public lavatories in the cleanest of clean cities. Asha joins the good citizens of Singapore doing it for themselves and ends up in an al fresco restroom at the city zoo with more wildlife than she bargained for. Asha meets Seetoh's friend Dr. Wei to get the lowdown on good lovin' Singapore-style by taking in a local sperm bank and an aphrodisiac tour in the redlight district of Geylang.