Singapore Vacation

I know I took this vacation back in March and it is now 4th of July....what can I say. I thought I would be alot better at this. So let me get back to my vacation in Singapore. P.S. I still want to go back to last year and update the blog in some sort of order.

On Saturday mom, dad, and I did the hop on hop off bus tour of Chinatown.

This is the Chinatown "street market". The bottom floor of the 2 storage buildings are "stalls" or "shops". As you can imagine after a while 1 shop looked like another because many shops sold the same things. I found a few gifts here for people who were babysitting my loving "4 legged kids" and the folks who are helping me out by watching over my stuff in Brunswick.

As we walked around here are a few more things that we saw that I thought was interesting.

This chair for example:

What I found as interesting is there are 2 "mosques" "temples" in Chinatown that were either Indian Mosques or Hindu Temples.

This is the Jamae Mosque built in 1830. It is the oldest Chulia Indian Mosque in Singapore. I found the color interesting and it is right down the street from this huge Hindu Temple.

This is the front door. Before entering you had to take off your shoes even though the inside was all cement. This is Sri Mariamman Hindu Temple built 1843. When this was first built it, immigrants would stay here while they were looking for work. Once they found work and were able to rent/buy they would move on. Today there are worship services. For $3.00 I was able to take photos inside the Temple...

This a painting on the ceiling. Some of the paintings were of 1/2 human 1/2 elephant.

I found the statutes and other depictions were quite interesting. 

As you can tell I was quite fascinated with this Temple. Can you imagine how long it took them to carve these figures. Then the upkeep with the weather conditions of the island.

The Budha Tooth Relic Temple was built in 2002 though it did not open until 2007. The Museum is on the 3rd floor. This is 1 of the places I would have liked to tour though I did not realize what is was until later. I did manage to get pictures of it though. I find when visiting for the 1st time, the hop on/hop off tours are probably the best. Then on the 2nd or 3rd visit you go to museums and the like.

Here is at least the outside of the Budha Temple.

The whole building wouldn't fit in my camera fewer no matter how hard tired or how far away I got.

Chinatown in Singapore has a lot of history. Today you can tour Chinese flop houses to see how the Chinese immigrants lived when they 1st arrived in Singapore.