Singapore Culture Holidays Experience at Little India

Enjoy the unique Singapore culture holidays exeperience at Little India Singapore. Feel the India culture holidays in your Singapore holidays tours!

Well-educated in the ways of the modern world, Indians in Singapore nonetheless still retain the customs and traditions of their forefathers. Religion, family ties and food continue to weave enduring threads in their lives. Their vibrant festivals, exuberant multigeneration family affairs with much-anticipated feasting, are a fitting testimony to this.

Yet never is there conflict, the lives of today’s Indians are a happy co-existence of old and new, sacred and secular. All of which you’ll fi nd captured perfectly in Little India.

Little India is the focal point of Singapore’s Indian community. Its spice-scented streets beckon you to a cornucopia of ethnic jewellery, jasmine garlands and silk saris. From the large Tekka Centre and Little India Arcade to the small provision shops, Little India is packed with interesting things to discover. During Deepavali (usually between Oct/Nov), the Indian Festival of Lights, Little India is transformed into a fairyland of gaily decorated, brightly lit streets bustling with shoppers. Witness also the faith of devotees during the colourful and ritualistic Thaipusam in January/February each year.

Colourful temples co-exist side by side with churches and mosques, parrot fortune tellers stationed by the five-foot way and tantalizing scents of spices drifting out from restaurants. This modest but colourful area of wall-to-wall shops, pungent aromas and Hindi film music is a relief from the prim modernity of many parts of the city. Centred around the southern end of Serangoon Road, this is the place to come to pick up that framed print of Krishna you’ve always wanted, eat great food and watch streetside cooks fry chapatis .

The Zhujiao Centre is the main market, but there are also interesting spice shops nearby. The best temples are Sri Veeramakaliamman, Sri Srinivasa Perumal and the glitzy Temple of 1000 Lights.

One more thing, don’t leave Little India without a temporary Henna tattoo or try “Teh Tarik”, a hand pulled cup of tea.