Tour de El Camino Stage 5: Little India, Singapore

I finally found a big Little India, and had to come to Singapore to do it. Little India is a 50-block district of two-story shops and apartments. The storefronts are narrow and deep, with displays of wares lining the colonnade. The feel was a lot like the Oakland or SF Chinatowns, but with fewer people. The Singapore tourism industry is pressing this district's identity, and has lined the streets with banners, but it didn't feel like a tourist area, and the shopkeepers did not hawk or press me to come into their shops to look at their goods. Most of the stores were for clothes, jewelry, and phone cards. I found an electronics store and got the good advice to buy a SD card reader to transfer photos from my camera to my laptop, and later found a three-story air-conditioned department store and bought myself a patterned short-sleeve dress shirt of the style I see all the other Indian men in this district wearing (Chinese and European men wear solid colors, not patterns). I was dripping sweat after 30 minutes walking outside, even though it was not quite 90F outside. I suspect I will acclimate: nobody else looked as uncomfortable as I felt, not even other Europeans.