World Cup Final 2014. We watched Germany v's Argentina at 3am our time on a big screen outside our local Indian restaurant. In case anyone hasn't heard .... Germany won!
We went to bed after the game and didn't surface until mid morning. We headed to the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) across the road from our guesthouse. We had a look around the building and were kindly invited to sit and eat at the Gurdwara.
Afterwards we walked through Jonker Street for the first time with cars! They close the street off to cars for the weekend night market and that was the only time we had been there. We continued our walking tour through Harmony Street past a diverse range of religious buildings from different faiths.
At 8pm one of the Chinese temples were hosting an opera. The costumes were amazing, the singing (if you can call it that), not so great! We watched for a while then made our way to the Ramadan bizarre, where we couldn't resist the tandoori chicken ... just one more time! The bizarre was packed and seemed to go on for miles with hundreds of stalls.
The walk back took us through Chinatown, each street beautifully lit with red Chinese lanterns. When we reached the river, we could hear really loud music coming from the Hard Rock Cafe. We went inside and listened to a great live band for a while before heading off to sleep.
We went to bed after the game and didn't surface until mid morning. We headed to the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) across the road from our guesthouse. We had a look around the building and were kindly invited to sit and eat at the Gurdwara.
Afterwards we walked through Jonker Street for the first time with cars! They close the street off to cars for the weekend night market and that was the only time we had been there. We continued our walking tour through Harmony Street past a diverse range of religious buildings from different faiths.
At 8pm one of the Chinese temples were hosting an opera. The costumes were amazing, the singing (if you can call it that), not so great! We watched for a while then made our way to the Ramadan bizarre, where we couldn't resist the tandoori chicken ... just one more time! The bizarre was packed and seemed to go on for miles with hundreds of stalls.
The walk back took us through Chinatown, each street beautifully lit with red Chinese lanterns. When we reached the river, we could hear really loud music coming from the Hard Rock Cafe. We went inside and listened to a great live band for a while before heading off to sleep.
