Singapore - Gardens / CLOUD FOREST- Day 2 (2 of 3)

The Gardens by the Bay in the Singapore is an incredible 260 acre garden in the “city”. There are 3 sets of large gardens and we spent most of our time on the South side, they call the Flower Dome, the largest greenhouse in the world.

The aim since 2005 is to raise the quality of life by enhancing greenery and flora in the city. Interestingly, public parks began as “Green Lungs” during the 19th-century as a direct response to rapid urbanization, overcrowding, and severe disease outbreaks. In 1847 Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, England, opened in 1847 as the world's first public park. This concept came to the United States in NYC when they designed Central Park establishing the idea that nature is an essential democratic right for all city residents (and more recently the development of the High Line in New York).

The Marina Bay Sands is a resort that opened in 2010 with a 1,850-room hotel, over a million sq feet of meeting space, an 800,000 sq ft shopping mall, an Art & Science museum, a 2,183-capacity theatre, and a casino with 500 tables and 3,000 electronic gaming machines. The 3 towers is topped by a skypark that connects them with an infinity pool and bars/restaurants cantilevered over one tower. Quite a sight... and another tower is now being built!

Cloud Forest (7 videos)
The Cloud Forest is 2 acres of tropical mountain regions conditions found in South-East Asia, Central and South America. After going up an elevator and then you descend a 138 ft "Cloud Mountain" covered in plants and vegetation on a circular path crossing under a 115’ waterfall. There is a Jurassic World Experience built into the environment with life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs, a T-Rex and a Brachiosaurus (3 stories high). Every few hours there is a mist that goes off to water the plants. We planned our visit to be there when they are misting in order to get some creative photos.Read more