Following two subdued editions in 2021 and 2022 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the celebration of this year’s Thaipusam on 5 Feb 2023, saw a return to long-held traditions — with a procession of kavadis or burdens (including spike or vel kavadis). The procession starts at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple along Serangoon Road and ends at the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple at Tank Road. The celebration of the Hindu festival is one of multi-cultural and multi-religious Singapore’s most spectacular. A good place to catch it or even photograph it is at the procession’s start point, the Sri Srinivasa Perumal temple in which elaborate preparations are made by kavadi bearers before they embark on the over 3 kilometre journey of faith to Tank Road.
Do visit my numerous posts related to Thaipusam to find out more on the festival, which is celebrated annually on the day of the full moon during the Tamil month of Thai:
- Vel, Vel, Vadivel: Thaipusam in Singapore (2010)
- Sights Sans Sounds of Thaipusam in Singapore (2011)
- Thaipusam at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple (2012)
- An Annual Walk of Faith (2013)
- Faces of Thaipusam 2014 (2014)
- What colours the full moon of Thai (2015)
- The full moon of Thai (2016)
- The Thaipusam Chariot Procession (2017)
- Photographs of Thaipusam 2017
- The Silver Chariot through the streets of Chinatown (2018)
- Kavadis on Keong Saik (2018)
- Thaipusam 2018 at The Sri Srinivasa Perumal in photographs (2018)
- Bearing a burden through the streets of Singapore (2019)
- Thaipusam 2020
Photographs of this year’s festival can be found in the gallery below:
The Long and Winding Road 
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