Gardens by the Bay - Part III

After a quick dinner, we headed over to Gardens by the Bay, a nature park spanning 101 hectares and containing more than 1, 500,000 plants. We explored the flower dome, the world’s largest greenhouse containing many different varieties of plants as well as animals carved out of driftwood. The greenhouse also had huge trees within its structure, including 1,000 year old olive tree. Next, we explored the cloud forest, an enclosed structure that contains a waterfall built into a mountain of flowers and plants. We then took an elevator up to the top of the plant wall mountain and took a walkway that surrounds the plant mountain back down to the ground floor.

The last part of visiting Gardens by the Bay included a light show centred around the garden’s man made supertrees. These supertrees collect rain water that is then used to water the plants in Gardens by the Bay and also have solar panels in them. The supertrees light up as orchestral music is played for a fantastic light show lasting 20 minutes. Unfortunately, the rain that started during our hike, had not let up, so we decided to just get soaked again, enjoy the show and head home. What made this day really great is that we got to enjoy the Gardens by the Bay with our friends John and Andrea and their two boys, Alex and Marshall. We haven’t seen John and Andrea in about 13 years as we moved to Yellowknife and they moved to the states, so it was great meeting up in Singapore of all places.

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