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With a myriad of cultural events and celebrations, your holiday in Singapore has never been this interesting. Usher in the Year of the Rabbit during Chinese New Year, or revel in an extravaganza of sight and sound at the Chingay and River Hongbao are just the highlights of February alone.
We will list a few of everyone's favorites here:
The Great Singapore Sale
Each year, shopaholics from the region and beyond flood to these shores to get their hands on bargain buys during the Great Singapore Sale. With prices slashed up to 70% off its original prices at the main shopping belts and in suburban shopping malls throughout Singapore, this much-anticipated annual mega sale promises nothing less than tremendous bargains on a dizzying array of items from both Singaporean and international brands.
F1 Singapore Night Race
This exhilarating event features 10 days of entertainment, with a slew of exclusive parties, race-themed events, star-studded music concerts, exhibitions, dining and shopping events, and much more.
Part of the Grand Prix Season, the Soundpark, located outside ION Orchard along Orchard Road, is an interactive media and experience park. Featuring the biggest DJ console in Singapore, the Soundpark lets you supercharge your photo with sonic-booms, as well as unleashes your inner DJ with its interactive scratch pad.
Apart from these star-studded and action packed events, Grand Prix Season Singapore was also a time for celebration, with exhilarating parties and race-themed events, enriching arts and cultural experiences. Locals and visitors alike, especially FORMULA ONE ticket holders, were treated to specially-designed shopping and dining experiences, including GPSS Unique Offerings and the GPSS Inspired Collection. All these and more definitely fuelled high-octane excitement and glamour right in the city.
Christmas in the Tropics
Even though Singaporeans don’t get to experience the four seasons, much less snow, we definitely know when is the season to be jolly. Christmas in the Tropics is a month-long festival that takes the carnival to the streets in Singapore’s all-year round balmy, summer heat.
Feast your eyes on visual panoply of seasonal decorations, and we’re not just talking about the annual Christmas light up along shopping strip Orchard Road. Shopping centres like Tangs and Takashimaya compete with each other every year with illuminating decorations that seem to creep magically from the ground level all the way up to the rooftop, while other major malls like Wisma Atria, Orchard Central and ION put on quite a show too.
Street performers also go wild in the city, especially on the streets of Orchard Road, with their capers and feats of gravity defying acrobatics. Choirs of cherubic children can also be seen and heard angelically carolling, human statues roam around freely and interacting with the crowds and stilt-walkers skip about, always game for a picture or two. So it’s just not about taking photographs with men in bright red fat suits and white beards impersonating Santa Claus.
This is one place where you can watch a fashion show outdoors without getting frostbitten. And for fashion fans, look out for the colourful make-shift stages which are decked out in glittering lights and decorative baubles, all ready for local and regional models to strut across them in the season’s trendiest style offerings — adding to the already bustling festival vibe in the city.
Dates to note:
20 November 2011 to 02 January 2012
For more events, you may want to visit the Calender of Events by Singapore Tourism Board
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