We have rested enough. Updated the blog, had breakfast and got ready to do the China Walking Tour. Our first stop was the Thian Hock Keng Temple. Singapore's oldest Chinese Temple. Sailors prayed here to the goddess Ma Po Cho. This was built without one nail and at the time it was built it was at the shoreline. Now the shoreline is over a mile away and continues to be increased for more land projects.
The next stop on the tour was the Al-Abrar Mosque. We did not go in. Need to take off shoes and cover your body, women that is.
It is an Indian-Islamic temple
They have no parking meters, you buy tickets and punch out the time you arrive and the amount you will be paying for the time you are going to stay, and if you go over there is a parking maid to give you a ticket. It is very common to see every car with many tickets on the dash.
| With more than 50 hands-on interactives and unique architectural models of the city scape, |
| the 3-story Singapore City Gallery tells the story of the nation's remarkable physical transformation |
| - past, present and future. |
This was on of the best places to visit to learn about Singapore, we loved it.
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There are pictures inside that show the before of the river area and then after the transformation
This is the city today absolutely breathtaking
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum.
The temple is based on the Tang dynasty architectural style
and built to house the tooth relic of the historical Buddha.
The temple is based on the Tang dynasty architectural style
and built to house the tooth relic of the historical Buddha.
Sago Street
On Sago Lane old chinese were waiting for their death and could watch their coffin being carved. A paper house is being burned to live in in the hereafter. Funeral in monsoon time. Now the one way street is restaurants and shops selling wares.
Tong Heng Confectionery
Tong Heng Confectionery, around since 1920, is known for their traditional Chinese pastries and egg tarts.
We had a coconut egg tart and the tour book said you can only it one, we split one.
Coconut Egg Tart
The rest of the tour has a wet market, where you can experience the sights and smells of typical fresh Chinese ingredients, from dried fish to just caught seafood on ice and a dizzying arra of green vegetables
There are also Hawker food stalls for your dining pleasures, carrot cake, made from turnips, char slew, barbecued pork, clay pot, chicken rice and many many other dishes.
Chinatown Complex Chinatown Food Street
Chinatown Complex Chinatown Food Street
Chinatown Street Market
The last of our tour was a shop called Lim Chee Guan. It is a bag of sweet barbecued port strips called bak kwa, they make a great snack all day long. At Chinese New Year, locals queue up for hours to get their fill of this traditional Singaporean-Chinese favorite. When we were walking by there must have been 50 people in line waiting to by this snack.
No we didn't have any the line was so long and it was early afternoon and very hot out. We went home and had lunch with Ashley. Very nice walking tour but glad to be back in the cool apartment. I made nachos for lunch and Ashley did another load of wash, we figured out what was wrong with the automatic curtain, we thought was broke, only to find out the switch had been turned off. We didn't think to try that, we just thought remote was broken. Dah. Ashley off to work, Claude and I off to take a nap. The afternoons are the best time to stay in because of the heat. Ashley came home from work and we decided to go to the Marina area and have pizza. You cannot believe this area. Has been built in the last two years and they left nothing out. Absolutely outstanding in every direction. From the waterfront view, the skyscrapers and the mall, you are just in awe of what you see. Pictures cannot describe it all, you have to see it for yourself. When you are looking you think this was once the water and it has been built into an outstanding area that people can enjoy doing many things, walking, jogging, boating, flying kites, shopping, eating, going to theater, a casino, by the way the locals are charged $100 dollars to enter but foreigners are charged nothing, they want to discourage gambling of locals. There are shops of every major designer inside and money is no object to these shoppers. Also at the top of the Marina Bay Hotel and Casino is the most spectacular view of the city and bay.
MARINA BAY HOTEL AND CASINO. AT THE TOP, WHICH LOOKS LIKE A LARGE SHIP, IS A SWIMMING POOL, LOUNGES, VIEWS OF THE CITY AND WATERFRONT. THE THREE TOWERS ARE HOTEL, BOTTOM IS 3 FLOORS OF SHOPS, RESTAURANTS, INDOOR OR SET UP ON THE MALL FLOORS, LARGE FOUNTAIN AND A LITTLE RIVER YOU CAN TAKE YOURSELF ON A GONDOLA RIDE.
As you can see the top is shaped like a ship, has pool, gardens and beautiful views
To infinity... and beyond! The pool stretches 150 metres, three times the length of an Olympic swimming pool.
Inside one small section of the mall
One of the lounges in the mall
This is the area of the Gondola Ride. It is awesome
This is the restaurant we went to called Mozza. The food was so delicious. We had two kinds of pizza, one a meat lovers and the other ham and pineapple, a salad that was sort like Caesar salad but they used variety of lettuces and something tart in the dressing, we think it was lime. Grampy and Ashley had chicken wings for appetizer. We are still trying to get use to the cost of things here,
that meal with one free beer, they don't charge Ashley for her beer because she comes there a lot, 2 cokes was $127.00. Not like Papa C's. The place was packed..........
The Fountain show which only operates about 5 or 6 times a day
We walked part way home and then hailed a cab. We were exhausted, walk Chinatown all morning and early afternoon, rested, and then walked to Marina Bay and all around the area. A full day but just perfect in every way. Wish you all were here to see the beauty. Love to all, Goodnight From Singapore.
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