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Old 03-31-2007, 07:04 AM   #362 (permalink)
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G's Visit to the Lion City

So my son came to Singapore for a visit over March Break. It was a great visit and I took a tonne of photos but many of them have him in them. As a result you will have to settle for these:

This is detail on a wall sculpture that depicts early Singapura. It is located at the bottom of the stairs leading up to Fort Canning (and it is about 100 metres to the west of the fire station I photographed above).


This is a sculpture in the Singapore Botanic Garden


and another one...


A small lizard on a bridge at the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve (it's a mangrove swamp)


This one was a little larger...


This one was larger still... just about five feet or so. I didn't get as close to this guy as I did to the previous one.


These odd shaped things are part of the cooling system at Clarke Quay. The architect says they are called "whale's tails" but as soon as my son saw them he knew what they looked like...


This is the main entrance to a restaurant/club called Clinic. It's all hospital theme...


A bum boat


This spider was literally larger than the span of my hand... fricken huge!


Very odd creatures of the sea, seen at Underwater World


This was on the island of Palau Ubin. You can see Malaysia across the water... this fence reminds me of something out of Planet of the Apes


We visited Haw Par Village... a crazy place made by one of the Tiger Balm Brothers. It features diaramas from Chinese Mythology including the 10 Courts of Hell... great fun for the kids!


Don't forget to pay your debts kids! or else!!!


From the Third Court of Hell: Yama -- Ungratefullness, Disrespect to your elders, escape from Prison? Get your heart cut out!


Drug addicts and trafficers, tomb robbers and urging people to civil unrest? Tied to a red hot copper pillar and grilled!


Plotted the death of another to get his property or money? A money lender with exorbitant interest rates? Thrown onto a hill of blades.


Disobedient to ones siblings, not showing enough filial piety? Ground between two stones.


The courts of hell seem to go on and on. Here are some the other attractions in this oddball place.








This is the Monk from Journey to the West being tempted by the ladies of loose morals... he prevails.


Oh My God... You Killed Kenny!


Cops are cracking down on the whore house
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