During weekend in Nov, I went to Singapore with my beloved mom and my sisters, we spent 3 days 2 nights there, which's not enough time to explore new things in Singapore actually. One of the new tourism place we visited was Garden by The Bay, we went there after exploring Universal Studio Singapore (USS)
We took a cab from USS to Gardens by the Bay. It's still raining when we arrived at around 14:00, but we didn't need to worry as they have 2 huge domes with temperature and weather could be adjusted as the gardens need. Lucky that we went by SQ from Indonesia, so we could have the same admission fee with Singapore citizen $20 which was cheaper than foreigners $28 to visit two conservatories. Unfortunately we could not take the "Garden Cruiser" that cost $5 to explore the outdoor garden because of the rain.
The "Cloud Forest" conservatory was our choice to the first visited place. After the entrance door, the temperature was colder than outside doom, we were facing to a very high waterfall from 7 stairs floor around 35 metres. It's like a drizzling rain as our face was sprayed by the waterfall to go pass through the walk path in front of the pool.
It's a very amazing concrete jungle, spectacular and innovative in design, with areas plant life from tropical highlands up to 2,000-metres above sea level. We were directed to the lift to go to the 6th floor, we had to take the stairs to go to the "Lost World" where we could find a large pool with various plants such as beautiful Nepenthes, popularly known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups(kantong semar). The plants were very huge and in good treatment, so they could grow very well.
The forest was build such as a huge mountain with vertical walls of planted mixture orchids, delicate ferns, some colorful bromeliads, and begonias. Then we could walk through the amazing hanging path in the mist, "Cloud Walk", as if we were walking on the cloud. It's a very sensational experience with beautiful green forests surrounding us, also we could enjoy an aerial view of the canopy and mountainside below. Singapore Flyers and Marina Bay Waterfront could be seen from the dome while we're walking on the trail.
Some statues and some holes as ventilation on the mountains also created a good combination to enhance the beautiful environment of the forest. On the 3rd floor they exhibited the carving marble stones which was formed to temple and others. Various color of the marble from light to dark color, the natural formed of the marble such as stalagmits were available there.
Another room on the 1st floor "Earth Check", providing movies on the some big screens about the nature process during different seasons and different temperature. On the next room there was a huge giant screen vertical and horizontal. The movie from both screens were synchronized, it shows the prediction of climate in the future. Some childrens were sitting on the horizontal screens, they were so excited with the horizontal screen, they tried to catch the picture movement on the horizontal screen.
The next garden was "Flower Dome", we're welcome by some big screens with colorful flowers. In each screen there's a small screen played the growth of the flower from the catkin till blooming as the beautiful flower. It's quite fascinating to see the blossom process.
After passing the colorful flower screen we're facing to quite a large empty area, where you could see the main beautiful garden area at the bottom. There were some gardens allocation based on the country where the plants from, such as Australian Garden, South African Garden, South American Garden, etc.
Head up the stairs to the highest garden, we welcomed by the colourful ‘Chaparral’ from the Californian Mediterranean region. There was some benches at the middle of the garden, because we had walking since morning, we took a rest for a while, sit on the wood benches, it's very relaxing under the green trees.
Continue walking to the main areas, we have to rush before dark. The garden transformed into a winter wonderland. Featuring some 2,000 poinsettias in hues of red, pink and white displayed very beautifully to celebrate the festive season. A spectacular floral with huge Christmas tree surrounding by the penguins and polar bears were put in the middle of the garden. Some art carving benches from trees decorating with Xmas accesories were available for us to take memorable pictures.
Before exit door, a Santa Clause riding his cart full of gifts held by some rain deers looked like flying on the trees. Actually we want to wait for the light in the garden, so we tried to find a restaurant to fill our stomach. Unfortunately there was no main course in the restaurant inside the garden, it's only like cafe with light snack and coffee. Then we decided to go out the dome and put the stamp on our hand in case we would like to go back to the dome.
Verandah was a nice restaurant located a few metres from the dome, where we had dinner and taking a rest while we were waiting for "The Trees of Life" attraction. The service was good, the food taste was quite ok. Our friend told us that it would be started at 20:00, it's a pity, that we missed the show. When we walked there the music was right just ended, it's over already. The show only last for 10 minutes, where the Supertrees come alive with a dazzling myriad of light displays bursting across the sky. I really regreted that we missed it after waiting for a long time to see the show.
Before going home we took some pictures under the giant tree, Supertree Groove. 11 Supertrees are embedded with environmentally sustainable functions like photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy. To see a different view of the garden, you could take a stroll along the OCBC Skyway, a 128-metre long walkway that connects the two 25-metre Supertrees at the Supertree Grove. You even could go to one of the top tree, chill out at the 50-metre Supertree-top bistro and be captivated by the panoramic views of the Gardens as well as the surrounding Marina Bay area.
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