Singapore's zoo

My favourite place in Singapore is…no, not a shopping mall but the zoo. Usually I don't like zoos as I feel pity for poor animals that will never be free and all their lives have to live in cages. But the Singapore’s zoo is quite different, it is one of the most beautiful and spacious zoo in the world, with lavish tropical enclosures instead of cages, moats and hedges instead of fences.
Singapore’s Zoological Gardens started life after the Second World War as a menagerie of abandoned British military pets. By the early 1970s it had evolved into a proper zoo.

Singapore's Little India

Little India is one of the landmarks of Singapore. India's connection with Singapore counts many hundred years. Even the island's name comes from the Sanskrit "Singa Pura" which means "Lion City". Several thousand Indians arrived in Singapore in 1819, when Lord Raffles decided to found a colony of the British Empire here. At that time rice paddies, sugar cane fields and vegetable plots covered the site of modern Little India. At first the place attracted livestock traders. As a reminder of those days you still find a Buffalo Road in Little India, as well as a Kerbau Road, kerbau being Malay for buffalo. Soon, however, as the population of Indians grew, shops, administrative buildings and temples began to appear. The most famous among the early shrines is the Sri Viramakaliamman Temple, dedicated to goddess Kali and built in 1881.