Singapore

12/26 -- 12/29/2018

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Singapore is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia, and lies one degree (85 miles) north of the equator.  The city-state is home to 5.6 million residents, 39% of whom are foreign nationals. There are four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil.  Its cultural diversity is reflected in its extensive ethnic cuisine. The country is known for its transition from Third World to First World in a single generation, under the leadership of its founding father, Lee Kuan Yew.

Getting there ...

We planned this Singapore visit as part of our Christmas trip back to our home in Taiwan.   Since Singapore has a tropical rainforest climate with no distinctive seasons, uniform temperature, high humidity, and abundant rainfall, we had to prepare our summer clothes for this trip.  We had an early flight from Taiwan and arrived in Singapore at about 2PM.  The Metro in Singapore is very convenient and it took us right to our home for the next 4 days: Marina Bay Sands.

 

 

 

 

 

After the show I went to our other room (facing the Gardens by the Bay) on the same floor to take a few photos of the Garden at night.

 

 

 

Day 2 (12/27) ...

 

 

 

One of Singapore’s oldest Hindu temples, the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple is dedicated to the goddess and destroyer of evil, Sri Veeramakaliamman or Kali.  Built by Indian pioneers who came to work and live here the temple was the first in the serangoon area and became a focus of early Indian Social Cultural activities there.  Although I respect the different cultures and religions, I don't quite feel comfortable looking at some of the statues (with skulls and fangs) in the temple.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 3 (12/28) ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 4 (12/29) ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Going Home ...

We checked out the hotel at 11AM and headed to Changi Airport to catch our flight back to Taiwan at 2PM.  Although Singapore is a small city-state country (area 722.5 sq. km) and many people have been saying that it takes less than a day to go around Singapore, I do feel that four days are still not enough to see Singapore.  Singapore is really a diversified place (unfortunately I am not a foodie type of people to enjoy different cuisine) and a good mix and merge of traditional and modern worlds.  It was a good place for us to spend our Christmas holidays for some good family time together.

 


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