VJW travel photography: blog: Singapore 2009

Singapore is one of Asia's biggest business play grounds

holding many conferences and seminars. Singapore also

has the best economies for all of Asia.

Singapore is well known for its shopping, Orchard Rd

being the main shopping road and tourist attraction

although if you can find them there are hundreds of

large shopping malls around Great world city, Mustafa's

Vivo city and that's just to name a few.

Esplanade theatres on the bay offers a complete life
style experience from dinning, shopping and the
performing arts.

Esplanade theatres.

The Merlion is considered a mascot for Singapore and

consists of a lion head and fish body, "mer" meaning

sea and lion the fish body comes from Singapore's

ancient name back when it was a fishing village.

Above is the baby Merlion

located on Sentosa island.

Artistic designs are popular around the streets of

Singapore.

Singapore art museum is a great spot to go visit if your

an art lover there are many museums in Singapore,

science museum, toy museum, war museum's,

national Singapore museum and many many more.

A visit to the Kampong Glam district to

see the Sultan Mosque with its massive

golden domes and huge prayer hall that

can hold up to 5,000 worshippers.

Most impressive religious building and the

focal point of Muslims in Singapore.

The Mosque was first built in 1824 by

Sultan Hussain Shah the first sultan of Singapore.

You may want to check out the mosque's dome base,

formed out of many glass bottles, collected by devotees.

The main prayer hall that can hold up to 5,000

worshippers.

The Old Parliament House, now known as

The Arts House At The Old Parliament

Is an arts venue holding art exhibitions

and concerts.

The building was formerly home to the

Parliament of Singapore from 1965-1999.

China town, Buddha tooth relic temple is the biggest

Buddhist temple in Singapore a must see if your

interested in Chinese architecture. It consists of four

floors and has a great garden on the top floor.

One of the main streets in china town, you will find

many of the streets in Singapore decorated at different

times of the year due to the different cultures and

different dates for there new years.

This street in china town just of the main street is like

markets with many interesting things to look at

and buy.

As always when visiting a Buddhist temple you need to

be respectful and dress conservatively. The temple

houses some very interesting stuff.

Inside one of many Indian temples.

In Little India you can find many Hindu temples the

biggest of them is called Sri-Veerama-Kaliammann

temple.

In Little India you will find many little shops that sell

Indian spices and textile goods, great little place for

lunch with lots of little restaurants serving traditional

India food and lots of vegetarian dishes.

You can also find a very big shopping mall in

Little India called Mustafa's well worth a look

if your after a bargain.

No Signboard restaurant famous for its seafood.

National Orchid garden's are found in the center of the

Botanic gardens, opened on 20th of October 1995

by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. This three hectares

of carefully landscaped slopes provide a setting for over

1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids with over 600

species and hybrids on display.

If you like flowers in any way you should visit and

make sure you have you camera.

One of the many flowers in the Orchid garden.

Bat orchid.

Clock in the Botanic Gardens.

If you find yourself wondering the Botanic

Gardens then allow yourself a full day as they

are huge and a very relaxing place to

wonder.

This lovely statue sits in front of the Shaw Foundation

Symphony stage in the Botanic gardens.

Ah the great Aussie steak pie the only place i have

seen them in Singapore is in the Jurong Bird Park,

a great place to go for a day out with the African falls,

pelican show, eagle feeding, hawk show and much much

more to wonder round and see.

Jurong Bird park the largest in the world opened

in 1971 with 4,600 birds and 380 species.

Committed towards conservation, the Bird Park is

the first in the world to breed the Twelve-wired Bird

of Paradise in captivity and received the Breeders’

Award from the American Pheasant and Waterfowl

Society in 2001. In 2006, the Bird Park became the

recipient of the Conservation & Research Award for

the Oriental Pied Hornbill Conservation Project by IV

International Symposium on Breeding Birds in Captivity

(ISBBC). In Asia, Jurong Bird Park is the only park in

the Asia Pacific to have an Avian Hospital. It has a

Breeding and Research Centre tasked to ensure the

welfare, breeding and promulgation of bird life and is

also an Official Rescue Avian Centre.

One of the many birds in the African wetlands.

Pink flamingos.

Black swan with ducklings.

Emu.

Set in a rainforest environment, Singapore Zoo's
world famous "open concept” offers the opportunity
to experience and be inspired by the wonders of nature.
Home to over 2,500 specimens from 315 species, 29%
of which are threatened, the Zoo has attained a strong
reputation internationally for its conservation initiatives
and breeding programmes. To better meet the
healthcare needs of its animals and working towards its
aspiration to become a leading global centre of excellence
for veterinary healthcare and research, a purpose-built
Wildlife Health care and Research Centre was set up in
March 2006. In 2009, 1.6 million visitors enjoyed the
experiential learning experience at the 28-hectare
award-winning Zoo. Singapore Zoo is part of
Wildlife Reserves Singapore. The Zoo is a designated
rescued wildlife centre.