We had breakfast in a Toast Box with soft-boiled eggs, toast, coffee and tea. In front of the hotel the Leong San Buddhist Temple and the Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple (with a huge statue of Buddha sitting).
Leong San See Temple
Our first stop is Little India. A very colorful neighborhood, although less chaotic than the country of the same name. A lot of people, although everything is very clean.
Hindu Temple
Little India
Little India
Little India
Singapore is a very orderly, clean city, where Big Brother sees everything. It's funny because even in the subway there are signs that tell you that if you see something strange you should go to the police. With respect to the tobacco, it is only possible to smoke in restricted areas properly indicated, in case of not respecting it the fines can be heavy.
Little India
We entered a pharmacy in Little India and bought several products. We wander around and get lost among stalls of spices, fabrics, all colors. We enter the Sri Sriniasa Perumal Temple, with its impressive figures of many colors. They are making offerings. They offer food to everyone who needs it. One has to enter barefoot and cover shoulders, head and knees. We eat delicious samosas in a nearby shop.
Interior of the Temple
Interior of the Temple
Next stop Kampung Glam. We enter the Masjid Sultan Mosque, surrounded by gardens and what looks like a residential neighborhood with cafes, galleries and restaurants. Here you can breathe the real Malaysian essence.
Masjid Sultan Mosque
On the way to Marina Bay we visit the Colonial Quarter, where the main museums, the Victoria Concert Hall & Theatre and the famous Raffles Hotel are located.
Kampung Glam
Bride and groom
Opera Theater
We arrive at CDB, the modern area of the skyline is impressive. We stop to see the icon statue of Singapore, the Merlion, a creature half lion and fish.
Merlion
Marina Bay Sands
We eat in Chinatown, at a street stall a glutinous rice with chicken and some shrimp dumplings. We visit the Hindu temple of Sri Mariamman and the Tian Hock Keng, the oldest Hokkien building in Singapore.
In the Temple and Museum of the Buddha Tooth Relic, we see a beautiful ceremony, impressive building of five floors high.
Temple and Museum of the Buddha Tooth Relic
Temple and Museum of the Buddha Tooth Relic ceremony
Temple and Museum of the Buddha Tooth Relic interior
We approach the Baba House, a house built in the peranakan style of the first Chinese immigrants in the Strait of Malacca.
Baba House
We return by subway to our accommodation for information to take a bus to Georgetown tomorrow night. We go to the Golden Mile Complex station and buy tickets.
We return to Marina Bay to enjoy a light show. The building at Marina Bay Sands is impressive. There is a concert near an Indonesian band and we enjoy it for a while.
Back to Chinatown for dinner, at the same place as this morning. We eat an ice cream, it is all ice with colored liquid, very strange and almost without flavor. Then to the hotel, it has been a very hard but fascinating day.
Chinatown
Singapore is an impressive city, it is super modern and clean, it does not seem that you are in Asia, very ordered, although also very restrictive, there are many things prohibited so it is important to be informed before.
Accommodation: Asphodel Inn Hotel 100$S double room with bathroom.
Subway: 8$S.
Taxi: 6$S.
Bed, lunch and dinner: 25$S 2 pax.
Tobacco: 9$S.
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