Orchard Road
Orchard Road today is lined with ritzy malls, swanky eateries and luxury hotels from end to end. The more notable shopping centres include Ngee Ann City, Tangs Department Store, Wisma Atria, The Heeren and Centrepoint. Many of its shopping centers are filled with a variety of products from around the world. Some famous shopping centers on this road are Tanglin Mall, Tanglin Shopping, Centre, Delfi Orchard, Orchard Towers, Palais Renaissance, Forum The Shopping Mall, Far East Shopping Centre.
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East Coast Park
The East Coast of Singapore is largely residential and offers few sights as such; most visitors just cross it on their way from and to Changi Airport. For Singaporeans, on the other hand, the main attractions are 20 kilometres of white sandy beach and the food: this is the home of many of Singapore's culinary icons. The true home of Singapore's Malay community is in Geylang Serai, and the East Coast also offers Singapore's solitary flashback to the past, the rustic little island of Pulau Ubin. East Coast Park, located off the East Coast Parkway, is a favourite
Choeung Ek Travel Guide
Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing more than 8,000 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. It was a very disturbing place that shows the horror and yet commemorated those killed.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has plexiglass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human
Times Square
The vast Times Square building houses nine floors of shops, and has a spectacular exterior with a huge electronic clock: the venue for the big millennium countdown in 2000. TIMES SQUARE is the landmark of Causeway Bay. With exits connected to Hennessy Road, Percival Road, Canal Road, Sharp Street East and Russell Street, it is easily accessible by private car or by public transport.
The car park of TIMES SQUARE opens 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. The 4 basement levels provide 700 parking spaces. Hourly or monthly parking is provided. In addition, parking spaces for cars and
Tai Sin Road
The district contains the following areas: Wang Tau Hom, Lok Fu, Chuk Yuen, Wong Tai Sin, Tsz Wan Shan, Fung Wong, Choi Hung and Choi Wan, an area that includes several major public housing estates.
The district derives its name from the Wong Tai Sin Temple, dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, which is located there.
The Noon Day Gun
Yes, there still is a noon day gun, as immortalised by Noel Coward. And it is still ceremoniously fired daily at noon. Actually a Hotchkiss three-pounder, the gun overlooks the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter off Gloucester Road, opposite the Excelsior Hotel, and is reached by an underpass by the World Trade Centre.
Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay
Transport: MTR Causeway Bay, exit D3.
