I took many pictures and movies at the Night Safari. Given that I was
shooting at night without a flash at moving animals, I'm surprised they
show anything at all. Nevertheless, some did come out at least to
extent that you make out what the animal is and what it is doing. In
any case, I feel I must declare that I don't think any of these pictures
do the Night Safari experience justice.
Click on images below to enlarge:
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| In My Hotel
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| Because I got a free upgrade at my hotel, I got a free breakfast:
scrambled eggs (tasted wrong), "potato noisettes" (fried round potato
balls; they were sad because they were cool), various fruits, and a
muffin.
| St Andrew's Cathedral, as seen from my hotel room.
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| Chinatown
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Pagoda Street. This shop-filled road is the tourist center of
Chinatown; I got hassled a little to buy things.
In retrospect, I
realize the majority of touts in Chinatown seem to be Indian. I guess
it's a cultural thing.
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On Pagoda Street, I spotted t-shirts proclaiming that Singapore is "a
fine city" with pictures of everything you can get fined doing.
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There are many more shopping stall streets in Chinatown that I didn't
bother photographing.
| View the full-sized image and see the dancing figure carved below the
balcony. No two poses are the same.
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| Jamae Mosque. (Yes, this is in Chinatown.)
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| Sri Mariamman Temple
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| The Sri Mariamman Temple, the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore. View
the full-sized image to truly appreciate the detail on the gopuram.
| Statues of (sacred) cows on the temple's walls.
| On another side of the temple, more cows and more figures.
| A long movie. The audio has the musical instruments directing people to
prayer. The video shows people praying, murals in the ceiling, and an
altar.
There's a lot more to the temple that I didn't photograph.
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| Figures high in the foyer.
| A movie of a bell chiming in the temple.
| A woman calmly ignores the weapon-wielding goddess next to her.
| More cows overlook an interior courtyard. (Okay, I admit these cows
amused me greatly.)
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| More Chinatown
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| Temple Street and its many Chinese lanterns.
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I stuck my head in an upscale Chinese medicine store, Ey Yan Sang. The bird's nest, even
low-end, was expensive: $50+ for a box with six bottles.
| The boutiques along Club Street, in the ritzy part of Chinatown.
| The nearby Ann Siang Road.
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| Statues of people with large fish.
| The small park/square that contains the statues.
| Nagore Durgha (muslim) Shrine and its Indian-Muslim architecture.
| A shabby mosque down the street. I don't understand why it was mentioned
in multiple guidebooks.
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| Thian Hock Keng Temple
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Also on the same street is the Thian Hock Keng Temple.
Supposedly
no nails were used in the building's construction.
| I like the tower's decorative touches.
| Typical Singapore: an old temple in the middle of modern skyscrapers.
| A close-up of some of the many decorative dragons/serpents on the roof. Excellent.
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| Wow.
| Lions guard the doorway into the inner courtyard.
| The main altar, to Ma Po Cho.
| Along the side of the courtyard, decorative screens, painted lanterns,
and colored dougong.
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| A 360-degree panoramic movie of the main prayer call, the central
courtyard, and the numerous ornate hangings. The temple is impressive,
richly decorated.
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The temple had nice plaques with stories about the various parts of the
temple.
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