Located inwards Merlion Park inwards forepart of The Fullerton Hotel together with across Marina Bay, the Merlion is the symbol of Singapore together with likely the nigh famous statue inwards the country.
Construction of the Merlion started on Nov 1971 together with was completed on August 1972. It was made yesteryear the slowly Singaporean sculptor, Lim Nang Seng together with was designed yesteryear Alec Fraser-Brunner for the logo of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). The Merlion stands 8.6 meters high together with weighs roughly seventy tons.  |
| It looks large from this angle |
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| but genuinely its but this size |
Originally, the Merlion was built at the tip of The Fullerton Waterboat House Garden amongst the Anderson Bridge equally its background. Because of its place then, the Merlion looked similar it was guarding the entry betoken of Singapore River. However, inwards 2002, the Merlion together with its cub were moved from its master copy place to Merlion Park. The relocation was quite an amazing feat. Using exclusively i barge, 2 heavy duty cranes together with a squad of exclusively twenty engineers together with workers, the statue was moved 120 meters to its introduce location. It involved, hoisting the statue over the Esplanade Bridge from the barge together with thence dorsum to it i time to a greater extent than on the other side. What's to a greater extent than amazing was that it exclusively took 2 days for this to live on done (April 23-25, 2002).  |
| To those amongst dark-green minds delight don't larn out a comment. =P |
Since then, the Merlion has underwent maintenance, became business office of artwork, together with was hitting together with damaged yesteryear lightning. Today, the Merlion gets thousands of visitors everyday together with certainly it is condom to tell that it is the nigh photographed statue inwards Singapore.
On the side note... Did yous know that at that spot are 4 other Merlions inwards Singapore that are recognized yesteryear the Singapore Tourism Board?
Here's the other four:  |
| The Merlion Cub |
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| Sentosa Merlion |
- The pocket-size 2-meter tall Merlion a few meters behind the famous Merlion. It is also referred to equally the Merlion cub.
- The gigantic 37-meter tall Merlion inwards Sentosa Island also known equally Sentosa Merlion.
- The 3-meter tall Merlion at Tourism Court (near Grange Road)
- The 3-meter tall Merlion on Mt. Faber's Faber Point.
Of these, I contend to run across exclusively the kickoff 2 along amongst the famous Singapore Merlion during my 2017 Singapore - Malaysia tour amongst my family. We genuinely made certain to catch together with run across for ourselves the famous Merlion inwards Merlion Park because equally some people would tell "You haven't been to Singapore if yous haven't seen the Merlion." Well nosotros did run across it upwards unopen but that was later nosotros squeezed inwards through the crowd of tourists that wanted to larn "the perfect selfie" amongst the Merlion (The Merlion Park was a tourist trap believe me!). Overall, the Merlion is something that you'd live on excited to catch together with run across on your kickoff trip to Singapore but would certainly skip on the next.  |
| Ella enjoying her SG tour. |
Getting there:
Ride the East West Line or North South Line of the MRT together with board downward at the Raffle's Place MRT Station. From there, the Merlion is but an 8 infinitesimal walk away via the Battery Road.
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