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Sophie And Neve Exploring the Unknown
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- Feb 11, 2020, 10:35am
- 🌧 29 °C
- Altitude: 47 m
- Singapore Sengkang Punggol 1.39082, 103.9002311°23’27” N 103°54’1” E
Day 165
Singapore Botanical Gardens - Part I
February 11, 2020 in Singapore ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Today was our second full day in Singapore. We are really loving everything this city has to offer. Each day I continue to be impressed by the the many trees that line the streets, the beautiful parks and the various flowers. In fact, almost 30% of Singapore is covered by greenery, placing it ahead of cities including Sydney, Australia and Vancouver.

To begin our day, we explored the Singapore Botanical Gardens, including an extensive garden dedicated solely to orchids. It was really relaxing strolling along the tree lined walking paths taking in the many different varieties of flowers. Along the way, we were fortunate enough to also encounter a monitor lizard, many turtles, a white throated king fisher (a type of bird that has a striking turquoise blue, as well as brown and white). After strolling through the botanical gardens and exploring the orchid garden, we took the bus to McRichtie Resevoir Park, Singapore’s oldest resevoir. See Part II.

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Sophie And Neve Exploring the Unknown
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- Feb 11, 2020, 10:35am
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- Altitude: 47 m
- Singapore Sengkang Punggol 1.39082, 103.9002311°23’27” N 103°54’1” E
Day 165
McRitchie Resevoir Park - Part II
February 11, 2020 in Singapore ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
The main reason I wanted to explore McRichtie Park was to walk across a 25 metre suspension bridge. What I didn’t realize is that it was a 1 hour hike to get to said bridge and then another hour to complete the loop. If you’ve been reading our blog post on a regular basis, you will know that my girls are not the keenest hikers, unless it involves the world’s tallest mountain. They were not impressed that I was yet again, making them hike. It was also threatening rain.

The hike was fairly easy in my opinion and took us through primary forest along boardwalks. Unfortunately, about 20 minutes into our hike, it started to rain. At first, it wasn’t too bad, but after about another 20 minutes, it started to pore! However, by this time, we were well on our way to seeing the suspension bridge, and macaque monkeys, so we persevered. Neve was most unhappy and again, blamed for this excursion. By the time we got to the suspension bridge, we were pretty soaked despite wearing raincoats, but I think it was still a great hike. We got to see macaque monkeys and the suspension bridge took us over the treetops, which was really beautiful. After we finished our hike, we took two buses to get home to get dried off and out of our wet clothes and got ready to head over to the Gardens by the Bay - see Part III.

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Sophie And Neve Exploring the Unknown
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- Feb 11, 2020, 10:35am
- 🌧 29 °C
- Altitude: 47 m
- Singapore Sengkang Punggol 1.39082, 103.9002311°23’27” N 103°54’1” E
Day 165
Gardens by the Bay - Part III
February 11, 2020 in Singapore ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
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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