17-05-2009 kusu island - the turtle island

Hello everybody

Today, i wnet to kusu island (a singaporian island), after a 30 minutes ferry trip you reach this island (with a little stop in St Johns iland in between). KUSU ISLAND means the turtle island, and it is like a turtle sanctuary, there is a budhhist temple on it and the 9th month of the lunar calendar there is something like 90000 devotees who will pay their respects there.

there is also a little malay temple at the top of the 120 steps of a little little hill. 

some baots that you can meet going out of the harbour of Marina south pier

The Indian temple and its devotees praying

The gifts offered by the devotees in the malay temple, they put one or two stones in water in a bag and hang it to the trees or whereever else they can

If you want, and really if you want you can go for a swim, personally i wouldn't because the island is surrounded by the big cargo and tanker boats waiting to come in the Singapore harbour

Some of the turtles you can find all over the island, the 2 last ones being the marbble "big sized" turtles in front of the chinese temple 

some of the flowers you can find there

without forgetting the spiders...

Coming back to Singapore you can see the skyline like you never saw it before...

Write to you soooooooooooooooooooon

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15-05-2009 Singapore art festival opening - HELIOS II

Hello evry body

I know, i know it is once again a lomg time that i ahven't updated the blog but better later than never

So from may the 15th to june the 14th takes place in Singapore the art festival and for its openning the group Malabar (a french one) has performed their show called helios II. a 20 meter long mantis on which one musiceiens and artist are performing their show.

that took place at the marina barrage, the place where the future casino is beeing built.

a very nice and enchanting 70 mintues show full of crzy characters and very original performances, but let's have a look by yourself...

 

And after the show a little walk on the bridge of the Marina Barrage, in order to take some pictures of the skyline by night

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Byyyyyyyyyyyyye

10-10-2009 esplanade, opera, boat quay

Hello everybody,

i already posted something on these places but not with day light pictures so i thought it would be good to do it now. after a walk at the bukit thima nature reserve ( yes a place i like because it is the second time in 2 week ends that i go there)

Let start by the skyline you have in front of you when you are on esplanade with its famous Merlion

Then comes the opera, this kind of futurist building that some people here call the Durians ( you remember this stincky fruit) 

Then the esplanade bridge and i couldn't resist to show you its by night version the other way round

after a 900 meters walk you arrive in Boat quay with its buildings, its sculptures ( like the bird by Botero)

or those two other ones representing the beginning of the trading between locals and britsh colons

or the jumping boys. i found this reflection of a building in another building funny so here it is, especially for you readers !!!

you can also find the sculpture representinf Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the creator of Singapore. or little piece of nature lost in the middle of a building

a UFO ? no it is what you can see if you were siting at a restaurant on boat quay, an artist drawing the boat quay houses...

and to finish a very colourfull building which is the house of art, sorry i don't remember exactly the name :-( 

 

Hope you liked it

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