In this last June 2011, I went to Singapore with my college’s friends. We all have been to Singapore before, but on this trip, we went to couple different places that we’ve never been before. I’ll share it in case you want to go to Singapore. Here are some places I visited:
It was a great place to look around. It has nice small pedestrian, I enjoyed walking around the area and took some pictures. Arab street has various stuff, specially textile, fabrics, clothing, accessories, muslim shops, there are also some restaurants where you can have sheesha, and some turkish food. There is a beautiful mosque called Sultan Mosque (You can see in my 3rd picture). I also heard that there’s a good spa in here. (But I didn’t check it out.)
If you are a fashion lover, you should check this place. It’s not like an orchard street shopping center, it’s a small street, where you can see there are many small buildings with two floor, and it’s colorful! So you can take lots of pictures here, the buildings are really interesting. There are many boutiques here, they sell clothing, dress, bags, shoes, limited-edition Nikes, I saw cute cameras like holga hello kitty edition in a shop there, watches, and other adorable stuff. It’s located near Arab Street.
Too bad I didn’t take picture of this place, because I was too busy shopping books! :p You can find used book (which you can get for 9.9 SGD or less), I really loved it! For students, you can also find text books here. They also have various stores like electronic stuff, stationary etc. But I went here to check out the used book, and also I for architecture/design students, and also for people who loves photography, like lomo, holga, etc, check out the “Basheer Graphic” store. You can find tones of books about architectures and design. Before you visit there, if you have any particular item you want to find, check out their website or just e-mail them. People who worked there are really nice and friendly.
It was located beside the Bras Basah Complex. I really loved the architecture, the building is so beautiful! I checked out some interesting books there. And there was also an art exhibition there. I didn’t really spend too much time here, but I really enjoyed the exhibition, there were beautiful and interesting paintings, and installations.
I think I went there too early, around 10 am, because lots of shops were still closed. I heard this is a place where you can find cheap bags, watches, and clothing. But I didn’t find anything that time, and I didn’t buy anything. I think this place looks like “Mangga Dua” in Jakarta, Indonesia. But maybe if you lucky, you can find cheap bags here.
I think if I put it in one post maybe it’ll be too long, so more to come.
*fiola
