Sunday, January 9, 2011

Christmas in Singapore

Some of most the enjoyable aspects of Christmases were lost this year. Bundling up in heavy coats and hats gave way to t-shirts and shorts. Instead of cut trees decorated with bulbs, there were numerous tree-shaped displays like the one above. That's not a real tree under there, just metal and plastic. Another example is the tree-shaped display of Ferrero Rocher chocolates (although not real chocolates, which would melt) seen below.
Here's another one, hollow in the center so that you can walk through.

Finally, a real tree! This one is at the Raffles Hotel, one of Singapore's finest.

One doesn't need a real tree to get in the holiday spirit, though, as these rowers on the Singapore River showed. They were donning Santa hats and yelling "Merry Christmas" to everyone watching.

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