{"id":11196,"date":"2023-07-30T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/exploring-orchard-singapore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:37:54","slug":"exploring-orchard-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/exploring-orchard-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Road Singapore: Exploring The City\u2019s Famous Shopping District"},"content":{"rendered":"

On arrival in Singapore, one of the first things I did was explore my neighbourhood – once I was done with my Uni work from Cambridge which had the ridiculously timed deadline of a few days after I arrived – between jet lag, assignment deadlines and general tiredness, I felt like I spent the first few days holed up in the flat and so once I had the assignment done, I was bursting to head out of the flat and go explore the things around me.<\/p>\n

A friend recommended looking for a place in Orchard – which is probably one of the most over-priced areas to live in Singapore but also, one of the best locations as there’s so much stuff all around you so I guess that worked out okay.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just recently came across these photos I took from the first time I went exploring Orchard, particularly the intensely bright and unbelievably swanky Orchard Road. (Like there must have been 1 million Chanel, Prada, Gucci…etc shops everywhere!)<\/p>\n

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On arrival in Singapore, one of the first things I did was explore my neighbourhood – once I was done with my Uni work from Cambridge which had the ridiculously timed deadline of a few days after I arrived – between jet lag, assignment deadlines and general tiredness, I felt like I spent the first few … Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,396],"tags":[362,364],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-travel-journal","tag-asia","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}