Singapore - December 27 to 31, 2002


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What is Singapore? Is the modern, booming American-like business city, beside Hong Kong and Tôkyô just the financial center and "shopping Mecca" of Asia? Or is it a Southeast Asian city? Actually, it's both. Precision and perfection, glamour and glitter, skyscrapers and the modern Orchard Road belong to Singapore just as the ethnic quarters of Chinatown, Little India and Arab Quarter. If you dare to take a look behind the scenes, you gonna discover a mosaic of tradition and modernity, of Western and Far Eastern elements. Singapore - a fascinating phenomenon full of contradictions, that aren't contradictorily at all in the Asian way of thinking.

More on Singapore, what to do and see - read my Online Diary entry on Singapore!

Merlion (half-lion, half-fish) - the saturnine symbol of Singapore Raffles Hotel Singapore History Museum The Fullerton Hotel
City Hall and Padang View to Boat Quay Orchard Road by night In front of Ngee Aun City, Takashimaya Shopping Center
Sri Krishnan Temple People at Sri Krishnan Temple Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple Spice Shop
Incense Sticks inside Wak Hai Cheng Bio Temple Buddha statue inside Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple View to Sultan Mosque Houses in Little India
South Bridge Road, Chinatown Chinese shop Bird Singing Contest Food Stall
Fountain of Wealth Sign MRT Station Singapore - the "Fine" City

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