Little India, Singapore

May 23, 2010

We spent the day touring around Little India and the harbour yesterday. As it was our lst full day in Singapore we wanted to make sure to see as much as possible. We had a little trouble finding it at first but with the help of many many local people who stopped and asked us if they could help us we finally found the shops. Singapore people are so helpful and friendly. I have never had a bus driver stop the bus and wait for me to run over till here. We had bus drivers park the bus and come to the back to make sure we would get off in the right stop. We had a bus driver who asked the advise of people on the bus to make sure we knew where we were going. We also had people on the street stop and ask if they could help us find where we were going and went on google earth on their phones to get a map to make sure they were telling us correctly.

When we arrived at the shops we were overwhelmed by the beautiful selection of Indian clothing .The vast array of veggies and fruits was very interesting to see. We have tried a few of the different fruits and they are very yummy most of the time. We have also tried a few different fruits that have not been so good.

The smells of the markets were at times a little to much. Parts of the market were meat markets and other parts were clothing and fruits and veggies. You can imagine that we stayed to the clothing areas as much as possible.

The temptation to buy an Indian sari was very great, They were so nice and relatively inexpensive. But we held back because we know there will be much more of this further north and we won't have to carry it for the next few weeks.

We have no idea what most of these veggies are called.

I have no idea why this would be on the carvings on the top of the church. 

This elephant boy is one of their most important gods. We were told that the boy had his head cut off accidentally by his father. His father felt so bad he went and cut the head off of an elephant and put it on his sons body. People take care of these statues every day by dressing them up and decorating them and then in the evening they take it off. They also bring offerings of flowers and milk.???

The Singapore flyer. Very big. No, we didn't go on it. But Colton really wanted to. He got outvoted.