Our third full day in Singapore, January 23rd, we did the Little India walking tour. It was not quite as striking as the Chinatown tour, because, in part, the Indian community is not nearly so large nor important as the Chinese community here. (Also it's not New Year for Indians). Nonetheless, it was enlightening for us since Little India is mostly
southern Indian, culturally, and our previous experience in India, in 2008, was entirely in the north. (See the eight posts I did in November, 2008, including one of my favorites,
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2008/11/conversion-at-pushkar-lake.html).
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So, I quickly discerned (click to enlarge and read), Little India is not a big-time
fun place to be, especially on the weekends; it all relates to riots that occurred
here, decades ago, which the Singapore government decided were alcohol-related;
thus, the ban here, but not in very many other Singapore precincts |
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| Actually, much of our tour time was spent in or about this southern Indian temple |
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| Rare dorsal view of lion |
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| Inside the temple |
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| St. Jerome? His attribute, right? Note priest in background |
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| Stomping on a bad guy; do not try this at home... |
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| Note five-headed god/goddess |
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| Stuff of nightmares...or possibly a Hindu Pieta? |
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Nice mural nearby, probably highly meaningful, but totally lost on me; I do regret
bringing so little understanding to all this... |
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We had a tasting at this place; neither Vicki nor I now remember what it was
other than maybe some sort of fry-bread concoction; I do vividly remember that
they had Kingfisher beer, which is among my favorite memories of India |
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| Street scene with shop-houses |
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| Random shop |
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| Oldest residence in Little India |
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| Us, there |
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| Next, in a humongous market/food hall |
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| Seafood district |
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| Garment district |
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| Just like everywhere else, people mostly sit around looking at Facebook |
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| Among the many residential high-rises |
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| Street scene, Little India |
