{"id":33173,"date":"2024-04-01T06:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/?page_id=33173"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:43:25","slug":"jalan-kayu-22-03-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/gallery-photos\/singapour\/2024-january-to-july\/jalan-kayu-22-03-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalan Kayu – 22-03-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jalan Kayu is an area at the north east side of Singapore (map here<\/a>). The organised visit was split in three: Buangkok village, the temple complex and the black and white houses around Seletar airfield. But first, a bit of history: Jalan Kayu are two malay words. Jalan means walk \/ street and Kayu means wood. This area was originally like the rest of Singapore, i.e. a swampy wooden area. It was gradually deforested to make place to nutmeg or other trees plantation. Nowadays, it is just like the rest of Singapore, maybe a bit more countryside-y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jalan Kayu est un quartier situ\u00e9 au nord-est de Singapour (carte ici<\/a>). La visite organis\u00e9e \u00e9tait divis\u00e9e en trois : le village de Buangkok, le complexe de temples et les maisons noires et blanches autour de l’a\u00e9rodrome de Seletar. Mais d\u2019abord, un peu d\u2019histoire : Jalan Kayu sont deux mots malais qui signifient marcher\/rue (Jalan) et bois (Kayu). Cette zone \u00e9tait \u00e0 l\u2019origine comme le reste de Singapour, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire une zone bois\u00e9e et mar\u00e9cageuse. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 progressivement d\u00e9bois\u00e9e pour laisser place aux plantation de muscadiers ou d’autres arbres. De nos jours, c’est comme le reste de Singapour, peut-\u00eatre un peu plus campagnard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kampong Lorong Buangkok is the last village of Singapore. In 1956, a Chinese man, Mr Sng, decided to buy a piece of land for cultivating crop. Unfortunately, the land was not very fertile and there were already a few families living there. So he decided not to farm the land, but to rent it for families to live there. By the 1960s, there were 40 families. The rent was super cheap and attracted mostly the people working in the psychiatric hospital nearby (those with menial jobs like cleaners). The specificity of this village is that it is compose half of Chinese and half of Malay. Even during the racial uprising of the late 60s, the village stayed united. Nowadays, the daughter of Mr Sng still owns the land and lives there. In the 2000s, she was offered S$33 million for the land by a private developer and she refused. Since then the Singaporean government has been gnawing at the land to build HDBs nearby. How it works? You rent a piece of land and you build your house helped by your neighbours. Everyone contributes to the common areas, the mosque, etc. There’s electricity, running water, sewage and even the post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kampong Lorong Buangkok est le dernier village de Singapour. En 1956, un Chinois, M. Sng, a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d’acheter un terrain pour faire de la culture. Malheureusement, la terre n\u2019\u00e9tait pas tr\u00e8s fertile et quelques familles y vivaient d\u00e9j\u00e0. Il a donc d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de ne pas cultiver la terre, mais de la louer pour que des familles puissent y vivre. Dans les ann\u00e9es 1960, il y avait 40 familles. Le loyer \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s bon march\u00e9 et attirait principalement les personnes travaillant dans l’h\u00f4pital psychiatrique voisin (ceux qui avaient des emplois subalternes comme les femmes de m\u00e9nage). La sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 de ce village est qu’il est compos\u00e9 pour moiti\u00e9 de Chinois et pour moiti\u00e9 de Malais. M\u00eame pendant le soul\u00e8vement racial de la fin des ann\u00e9es 60, le village est rest\u00e9 uni. Aujourd’hui, la fille de M. Sng est toujours propri\u00e9taire du terrain et y vit. Dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, un promoteur priv\u00e9 lui a propos\u00e9 33 millions de dollars singapouriens pour le terrain, mais elle a refus\u00e9. Depuis, le gouvernement singapourien grignotte le terrain pour construire des HDB \u00e0 proximit\u00e9. Comment \u00e7a fonctionne? Vous louez un terrain et vous construisez votre maison aid\u00e9 par vos voisins. Tout le monde contribue aux espaces communs, \u00e0 la mosqu\u00e9e, etc. Il y a l’\u00e9lectricit\u00e9, l’eau courante, les \u00e9gouts et m\u00eame la poste ! Et tout \u00e7a pour une bouch\u00e9e de pain !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a little break to eat roti prata<\/a>, we visited the Jalan Kayu joint temple. Four temples were relocated there. Details from this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apr\u00e8s une petite pause pour manger des roti prata<\/a>, nous avons visit\u00e9 le complexe de temples de Jalan Kayu. Quatre temples y ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9s. D\u00e9tails de ce site Web<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The first temple that we saw was Ubin Thai Buddhist Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le premier temple que nous avons vu \u00e9tait le temple bouddhiste Ubin Thai.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second one is called Bao Gong Temple. It is a Chinese Taoist temple and has a hell museum in the basement showing the 10 levels of hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le second s\u2019appelle le temple Bao Gong. C’est un temple tao\u00efste chinois et poss\u00e8de un mus\u00e9e de l’enfer au sous-sol montrant les 10 niveaux de l’enfer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third one is Leong Nam Temple. It is dedicated to Jiu Huang Da Er Ye, the second of the Taoist Nine Emperors. It was quite grand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le troisi\u00e8me \u00e9tait le temple de Leong Nam. Il est d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Jiu Huang Da Er Ye, le deuxi\u00e8me des neuf empereurs tao\u00efstes. C’\u00e9tait assez grandiose.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fourth and last and the biggest, wealthiest one is called Chong Yee Temple. It is a Taoist temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le quatri\u00e8me et dernier, le plus grand et le plus riche, s’appelle le temple Chong Yee. C’est un temple tao\u00efste.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To finish off the visit, we went to what is left of the British barracks alongside Seletar airfield. The British selected this area for a military airfield and built barracks for the officers. Gradually, the airfield was transformed to be a commercial airport as well. In the 2000s, the government decided to develop the area for aerospace industries. As a consequence, they expropriated all the people living in the old barracks in readiness for redevelopment. Unfortunately, the SARS crisis of 2003 put a stop to this and it’s only in recent years that the area is being slowly developed for aerospace industries. Alas! All these historic houses that have been left empty during 5 or 10 years are now in very bad condition. I didn’t take any pictures because, they were not nice. It’s a shame, really to let go of this heritage. But that’s life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour terminer la visite, nous nous sommes rendus dans ce qui reste de la caserne britannique \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de l’a\u00e9rodrome de Seletar. Les Britanniques avaient choisi cette zone pour en faire un a\u00e9rodrome militaire et y ont construit des casernes pour les officiers. Peu \u00e0 peu, l’a\u00e9rodrome s’est transform\u00e9 pour devenir \u00e9galement un a\u00e9roport commercial. Dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, le gouvernement a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de d\u00e9velopper la zone pour les industries a\u00e9rospatiales. En cons\u00e9quence, ils ont expropri\u00e9 toutes les personnes vivant dans l\u2019ancienne caserne en vue d\u2019un r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement. Malheureusement, la crise du SRAS de 2003 a mis un stop \u00e0 ce projet et ce n’est que ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es que la r\u00e9gion s’est lentement red\u00e9velopp\u00e9e pour les industries a\u00e9rospatiales. H\u00e9las! Toutes ces maisons historiques laiss\u00e9es vides pendant 5 ou 10 ans sont d\u00e9sormais dans un tr\u00e8s mauvais \u00e9tat. Je n’ai pas pris de photos parce qu’elles n’\u00e9taient pas belles. C’est vraiment dommage de laisser s’abimer cet h\u00e9ritage. Mais c’est ainsi !<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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