The heliconia walk, Botanic Gardens · 2019 · Photo: Balon Greyjoy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Slow photo walks around Singapore.
Ixora Frames collects photographs of the island at walking pace: garden paths, shophouse rows, reservoir trails, hill bridges and hawker centres. Each walk is a short sequence you can follow on foot, with a route and a few notes.
The photos are openly licensed work by many photographers. Every picture is credited underneath with its licence.
Walks
Photo of the month
Every year before Deepavali, arches of lights go up the length of Serangoon Road. This picture is from 2022; the lights are up again now. Walk under them after dark, then eat at Tekka.
Festival lights over Serangoon Road · 2022 · Photo: Iybtk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Recently
- Nov 2026 A new typeface for the site, and pages that load faster on a phone signal.
- Nov 2026 New address: the site now lives at ixoraframes.com. Every walk, note and photo credit came across from the old blog.
- Nov 2026 Kampong Glam & Little India: festival lights over Serangoon Road, up again this month.
- Nov 2026 Plan a walk: notes on the November to January rains, and where to wait out a storm.
- Oct 2026 Old Streets now includes Tiong Bahru's walk-up flats, and the air-raid shelter under one block.
- Oct 2026 River & Telok Ayer: on upstream to Robertson Quay and the Alkaff Bridge, and lighters on the river in 1971.
From the notes
- Sep 2026 Old prints, the same streets
- Apr 2026 Park connectors
- Dec 2025 The monsoons, for walkers