New Photos from Singapore, July 18-20th


Sleep, Merciful Sleep So, new photos are up. Here.

The full Singapore album is here.

My favorite photos are of the big monitor lizard and the guy lighting up the smoke.

I tried to get a photo of this absolutely beautiful kingfisher, but the lighting was bad and I failed.

And for Canuck I took some photos showing off some of the conservation efforts here in Singapore.

There are also lots of photos of people, mostly candid shots, in this update to. I hope you enjoy!


Sean Paul Kelley July 19, 2008 - 11:40pm
( categories: Agonist Travel Journals )

Great photos! Thanks for sharing your impressions of Singapore with us!

yogi-one July 20, 2008 - 3:55am

Bugis Square and Bugis Street used to be the nighttime hangout places for Singapore's transvestites, which was curious because the government was so conservative. I suppose by now they have been forced out.

But the interesting thing about the street is the name. The Bugis were a ferocious tribe of cannibals in Borneo who terrorized the British when they first colonized the island in the nineteenth century. The tribe was pronounced Boo-gy, and Victorians took to keeping their children in line by threatening them with a visit from the "Boogey Man."

Numerian July 21, 2008 - 9:21pm

there is now a massive new glitzy mall around the area. It's very chic and chichy.

As for the transvestites, or Lady-boys as they are called: there are still some lurking around, but most have gravitated to the Geylang area and also on the other side of town to Orchard Towers, otherwise known as "Four Floors of Whores." Apparently, the top floor is for Lady-boys. But I live stones throw from Bugis at Beach and Leang Seah St, which in older days was the heart of a rather seedy district. It still has remnants of it, and I like the kind of mixed-middle class, lower class values of the area. Very tolerant, and everyone is phenonenally kind.

“Is not our first thought to go on the road? The road is our source, our vault of treasures, our wealth. Only on the road does the ‘traveller’ feel like himself, at home.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Sean Paul Kelley July 21, 2008 - 9:52pm

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