The Local Tourist

I recall writing something on being a tourist in our own backyard...a.k.a. the local tourist concept...Some time back, the ST used to have this column - The Accidental Tourist, which I enjoyed reading immensely. The column talks about the little known nooks and corners of Singapore...really, if we take the time to walk and explore around..we are more than our concrete urban jungle of buildings and HDB blocks ;)

Anyway, for work purposes, we have had foreign visitors for the past 2 weeks. Naturally, the conversation always strays to the attractions that they have been visiting in Singapore after working hours. To our amazement, our visitors have been very adventurous. They have taken the MRT on their own, and invariably, all of them would have visited Chinatown, Little India, Orchard Road and the Night Safari :)

For this week, we brought one group of foreign visitors from the former USSR for dinner at a seafood restaurant at One Fullerton. Well, guess the restaurant is a popular choice for one to bring corporate clients..and in particular, caucasian corporate clients ;) You can hardly find any table consisting of only locals at the restaurant.

Needless to say, we brought our visitors out to see our Merlion in its night time glory after dinner. Our visitors were highly unfazed (cos they have already seen the merlion in the day time on one of their trips ;p). But all of us were fascinated..and we the locals, were the ones who ended up taking pictures of the merlion haha. We were remarking among ourselves that we would hardly be at the merlion in the night, if not for the fact that we had to entertain our visitors, oh well :)
(posted some pics taken with my trusty handphone around the Singapore river)



Believe it or not. These pictures above are taken in Singapore. We still have such roads around ;p Simply paved single lane 2 way roads with no street lights. No buildings flanking the side of the roads. Never seen them before? ;) Let me know if you want to know where they are ;p