Visit to Little India

October 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Another interesting celebration near Deepavali is Theemithi which is also known as the fire walking festival. For this year, it was carried out on 29th October 2007 at 3am. Sadly, it is over for this year so you will have to wait till next year to courageous faithful walking barefooted across a 4 metres bed of red hot burning charcoal. Amazingly, those who have crossed the hot burning charcoal appear to have remained unhurt. I visited Singapore’s Little India on the 28th. I can’t stay that ‘early’ to see the actual fire walking celebration due to studies on Monday but at least I managed to understand the fire walking procedure from the pious Hindus. Hindus have to walk from one temple to another temple in Little India barefooted with lime leaves in their hands and only after praying can then return to the first temple to walk on the scorching charcoals. Overall, it has been an enriching experience at Little India. The beautiful lightings stretching through the entire road was impressive but I think more varieties of lighting will bring about an even more magnificent effect. Nonetheless, Little India is definitely a place to be immersed with during Deepavali as it is filled with the festive feelings and is a must visit for both tourists and Singaporeans. Spread the festive season! Happy Deepavali in advance!

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Deepavali Bazaar at Campbell Lane.

Colorful Punjabi
Wide range of colorful punjabi dresses!

Dazzling Boxes
Little dazzling boxes to keep your accessories or as small gifts for friends?

Elephant Decoration
More decorations to bring the festive mood back home!

Floor Art
Traditional floor graffiti.

Henna Drawing
Henna - Before

Henna Artwork
Henna - After

LightDecoration
Twinkle twinkle little stars…

Indian snacks
Finding something to munch is not difficult in Little India. :)

Mix Tandoori
My mix tandoori for dinner at Banana Leaf Apolo. There are promfet, chicken, mutton and tomatoes and I love the mutton! Yum yum.

White Rice with Vegetables
White rice with 2 vegetable sides, egg plant and cabbage. The menu stating the meal is for two person but I think it can simply satisfy even 4!

Colorful Resturant
Colorful resturant outside Mustafa.

Serangoon Plaza
Mustafa, the only shopping center that is 24hours? Everything you needed they probably have it! Took us more than 2 hours to comb the whole of Mustafa (which includes Serangoon Plaza, they are linked).

Mustafa
Neon Sign board of Mustafa.

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There Are 4 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by melissa on 31 October 2007:

    hi hi :) thanks for tagging back..

    to be honest, ive been to little india once in my whole life in singapore for 17 years… and i quite like the shops there vvv much though its hard to walk in 2’s side by side with my bf. :D

    and i love the place because there sells alot of nice bangles for me and my gf’s and its a usual hunt out place for shopping of awesome bangles.

    :D BTW, ive updated my blog. do visit & leave me a comment on my tagbaord.

    CHEERS

  2. Comment by JM on 31 October 2007:

    Hiya,
    I bet there are still many who yet to visit Little India.

  3. Comment by Nor on 6 November 2007:

    Hey….very nice pictures…..really show the festive mood of Deepavali.

  4. Comment by Singapore Travelogue on 16 July 2008:

    I visited Little India too after so many years and was actually very surprise to find lots of budget hotels or backpackers hotels in Little India. The best advice I have for tourist is to spend at least one whole day there visiting all the small lanes. There are just so many nice and intriguing things to discover.

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