Singapore has traded in its rough-and-ready opium dens and pearal luggers for towers of concrete and glass, and its steamy chicken rickshaw images for cool efficiency and spotless streets, but you still recapture the colonial era with a Singapore Sling under the languorous ceiling fans at Raffles Hotel.
At first glance, Singapore appears shockingly modern and anonymous, but this is an undeniably Asian city where Chinese, Malay and Indian traditions from feng shui to ancestor worship create part of the everyday landscape which bringing contrast of colourful that brought up to the life of a city.
View at dusk of Boat Quay and Central Business District (CBD)
Hindu gods crowding roof of Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Little India
Tourist barge on Singapore River, with Empress Place Building in background
Visitors at Underwater World, home to more than 2000 marine animals
Seuss-like birds at Jurong Bird Park, Jurong
Genial looking man on bicycle rickshaw, Chinatown
Chicken and rice from one of city's 'Hawker Centre' street kitchens
Raffles Hotel, built 1887, named after founder of British colony in Singapore
Passengers, moving rapidly, in underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Station
