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Singapore - January and March 2004 (Part 1) |
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The title "Garden City" is richly deserved. This clean, organized city-state is one of SE Asia's best gems, and offers a broad variety of diversions...if you can stand the heat and humidity, that is. |
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A view of Singapore City taken from the 65 floor of the Westin Stamford at Raffles City. Simply stunning. |
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The famed Esplanade and Theatres On the Bay. The design of this complex has been compared to the skin of a durien. |
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Singapore is a city of contrasts. Here we see modern buildings tower over colonial-era rickshaws. |
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This is a statue of Sir Thomas Raffles, the architect of modern Singapore. |
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Sago Street was once home to brothels and "death houses" for the Chinese elderly. It is rumored to be haunted. |
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This is the entrance to the Sri Mariammam Hindu temple. There are several shelves of highly detailed and grotesque figures. |
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I am standing on a rather mediocre artificial beach on Sentosa Island, a large theme park just outside of Singapore. |
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A view of Amoy Street in Chinatown. The colonial architecture is quite reminiscent of what I saw in Macau. |
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