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Little India |
Orchard |
Chinatown |
Sentosa |
Arab Street |
Suntec |
Marina/City Centre
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Orchard Road Hotels, is the main shopping and entertainment
area of Singapore. It is where many Hotels are located. The
central shopping area is concentrated here. It rivals all other
areas in terms of sheer volume, quality, and choice. Many of its
shopping centers are filled with a variety of products from
around the world. Most malls carry the concept of "everything
under one roof". Virtually everything that is desired can be
found in these shopping centers.
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 Changi
Airport Hotels, approaching Singapore by air is an exhilarating
experience. The myriad twinkling lights of runway and terminal
building reaffirm Changi Airport's status as one of the world's
ten busiest airports, and a regular recipient of top awards for
efficiency and facilities in trade journals of the travel
industry. Pursuing a liberal aviation policy, Changi handles
more than 1600 flights to and from 109 cities in 54 countries
each week and reinforces Singapore's strategic position as
gateway to the Asia Pacific.
 Sentosa
Hotels,
which means tranquility in Malay previously known as Pulau
Belakang Mati, is a popular island resort which is visited by
some two million people a year. It is a major tourist attraction
with a musical fountain and two golf courses. Sentosa Island is
just a few hundred yards from the mainland. There's an excellent
aquarium, dolphin lagoon, Butterfly Park, musical fountain,
Carlsberg sky tower, Fort Silos, fantasy island, volcano land,
and many other attractions. Elder people may want to just laze
on the beach. There's an admission charge to the island as well
as to many of the attractions. The island has an area of 5
square kilometers. It lies just half a kilometer away from the
southern coast of the main island of Singapore. It is
Singapore's fourth largest island. 70% of the island is covered
by secondary rainforest, the habitat of monkeys, lizards,
peacocks as well as other native flora and fauna. The island
also has 3.2 kilometer stretch of white sand beach.
Significantly large portions of land are currently being added
to Sentosa due to land reclamation. Sentosa can be reached from
the Singapore mainland via a short cable car, which originates
on Mount Faber and passes through HarbourFront en route.
 Chinatown
Hotels,
heritage runs the gamut from the natural to the preternatural,
since face-reading, palmistry, numerology and astrology are part
of the cultural baggage of Singapore's Chinese and Indian
communities. Although the essence of mysticism remains, as in
the Oriental charts of physiognomy and the Hindu peacock
feathers, the arcane truths of the Chinese palmist are now
packaged in a bilingual format. Professional letter writing
dates back to a time when the wave of illiterate workers from
China needed ghost-writers to articulate the 'home thoughts from
abroad'. Although their breed is dying out with the ineluctable
progress in education, some scribes still play their trade in
Chinatown.
 Little
India Hotels is an ethnic neighbourhood found in Singapore that
has Indian cultural elements. Little India lies to east of the
Singapore River—across from Chinatown, located west of the
river—and north of Kampong Glam. Both areas are part of the
urban planning area of Rochor.
Little India is distinct from the Chulia Kampong area, which,
under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, was originally a division
of colonial Singapore where Indian immigrants would reside under
the British policy of ethnic segregation. However, as Chulia
Kampong became more crowded and competition for land escalated,
many ethnic Indians moved into what is now known as Little
India. (The Chulia Kampong district no longer exists as a
distinct area.)
The Little India area is reported to have developed around a
former settlement for Indian convicts. Its location along the
Serangoon River originally made it attractive for cattle
raising, and trade in livestock was once prominent in the area.
Eventually, other economic activity developed, and by the turn
of the 20th century, the area began to look like an Indian
ethnic neighbourhood.
 Marina
Bay Hotels is a bay near Central Area in the southern part of
Singapore, and lies to the east of the Downtown Core. An
artificial bay, it was formed when land reclamation created the
Marina Centre and Marina South areas, which form a body of
sheltered waters of what was once open sea. In the reclamation
process, Telok Ayer Basin was removed from the map, while the
Singapore River's mouth now flows into the bay instead of
directly into the sea.
Marina Bay, with Marina Centre in the background..
Marina Bay, with Marina Centre in the background.
In contemporary local common usage, however, the term Marina Bay
has largely been attached to the developments in the vicinity of
Marina Mall in the Marina South reclaimed area, particularly to
the eateries found there. Although technically erroneous, this
association may have been stemmed from the association of the
venue's limited accessibility to the Marina Bay MRT Station,
which has served as the main means of public transport to Marina
South.
It was announced on 11 May 2007, starting in 2008, Marina Bay
will play host to a Formula One Race. The Singapore Grand Prix
will take place in September-October 2008 on a street circuit
through Marina Bay.
 Suntec
Hotels
Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre is at
the heart of a self-contained convention city that offers a
convenience no other venue can match. Direct access to 75,000
square meters of meeting space, 5,200 hotel rooms, 1,000 shops,
300 restaurants and even a world-class performing arts centre
all within a 15-minute stroll.
 Arab
Street Hotels Nothing beats Arab Street for bazaar-style
shopping with true ethnic character! Where else can you browse
in delightful hole-in-the-wall shops, haggle to your hearts’
content and come away with the most enchanting trinkets and
keepsakes at bargain prices?
The goods spill out onto the pavements, anything from baskets,
baby cradles and floor mats to serving trays, pith helmets and
hanging chairs. Not to mention enough fashion materials and
knick-knacks to impress even Hollywood!
Arab Street (Chinese: 阿拉伯街) is the name of a road and
neighbourhood in Singapore. There are two explanations to exist
of the road name. The first being that the area was owned by an
Arab merchant, Syed Ali bin Mohamed Al Junied and the site of an
Arab kampong, hence the name being known as Arab Street. The
Chinese referred the street as jiau a koi (Javanese street), in
the view of the Javanese who used to be the majority inhabitants
of the area. Spices, textiles, basketry items and Sonkoks are
sold along this row of shophoses with five-foot way at Arab
Street. In Tamil, Arab Street is known as pukadai sadkku (flower
shops street), because of shops selling homegrown flowers, lime
and other goods sold by Javanese women. In 1889, a huge fire
occurred.
The other explanation is tied to the situation already
preexisted at the time of the nation's founding father Sir
Stamford Raffles. When Raffles was planing the outline of areas
to be allocated for government, as opposed to commercial and
residential use, a community of Bugis seamen and merchants
already existed near the Sultan's palace. He therefore allocated
the area to them, near where their boats were sheltered in the
river, bringing their annual cargo to a barter basis, that is
how the name Bugis Street came about. The Arabs and other
Mohamedan traders (Chulias) were also allocated to areas near
Kampong Glam.
 Pasir
Ris Park Hotels, an interesting play on geometrical
shapes is effected by the contrast between the cylindrical
edifice of the Singapore Treasury Building and the angular roof
of its vestibule. Function makes way for flair in this
sculptural tableau at Pasir Ris Park, whose 18-metre high chrome
pillar reflects a chiaroscuro of clouds and dwarfs a distant
palm.
 Tanjong
Pagar, roof tiles are merely one element among many,
structural and ornamental, that needed replacement in the
conservation of old shop houses within a 4.1 hectare area of
Tanjong Pagar designated as part of the Chinatown Historic
District. When their exquisite facades have been remoulded,
their timber fascia beams replaced, their fanlights and ceramic
friezes restored to their former glory, these neat rows of
two-and three-storey terraces (dwelling houses for a nutmeg
plantation back in 1856) would provide a unique precinct for
such trades as Asian antiques and objects d'art, traditional
Chinese teahouses and medicine shops, all of which would
benefits from its inimitable ambience.
 Kampong
Glam, was one of the neighbourhoods which Raffles designated
along ethnic lines, and which still remains a uniquely
Malay/Arabic bastion, where merchants engage in trades
traditionally associated with them, of which fabrics is a
quintessential example. The Basharahil brothers, dealers in
batik cloth, are of Yemeni stock, their forefather numbering
among the earliest pioneers to Southeast Asia in 1272.
 Singapore
Seaport, with a string of superlatives to its credit (Best
Seaport in Asia, Best Seaport Terminal Operator and Best
Warehouse Operator at the Asian Freight Industry Awards 1988 and
1989), the Port of Singapore has no difficulty measuring up to
its reputation as the busiest port in the world in terms of
shipping tonnage, with 600 ships inanchor at any on time! Apart
from world-class infrastructure, what also sustains its
popularity as a major shipping centre is the Singapore
Distribelt, which defines an area contiguous to the PSA's five
terminals, that harbour resources for both general and
specialised storage and distribution.
 Yio
Chu Kang, heritage expressed as continuity is epitomised by
Sam Mui Kang Pottery Works, a family concern founded in 1937 by
Chua Eng Cheow, who transposed his expetise at the kiln from the
Teochew district in China to Jalan Hwi Yoh in Yio Chu Kang,
Singapore. Barrel-making was another family skill transferred to
Singapore.
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