Orchids, Coconut Ice Cream and Naps.
After breakfast I decided to check out the Singapore Botanical Gardens. The cab ride over there was my first opportunity to see the city in broad daylight and by God, it is gorgeous. There are huge, lush trees and foliage everywhere, which creates this sort of rainforest/tropical juxtaposition to the urban-ness of the city. Totally beautiful.
The Botanical Gardens were founded in 1822 and are run by the National Parks Board. As I started into the park, there was this huge group of people doing tai chi, overlooking a giant lake of waterlillies...a really intense introduction to the Gardens. The highlight of the Gardens though (and the only section of the park that costs money), is the Orchid Garden. DID YOU KNOW, that there are over 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids in the Orchid Garden's collection? Of you course you didn't! That's why I picked up a brochure so that I could include that very interesting information in my blog!
A few more quick notes before we get to the good part (the pictures). It was insanely hot at the Botanical Gardens. Which is why I got a scoop of coconut ice cream and headed to the "Cool House" which housed the high elevation orchids and carnivorous plants. Although, I'm sure there are a million other amazing things to do in Singapore, the Gardens about did me in, so I decided to come back to the hotel and take a nap...or two.
My plane leaves for India in 3 hours...
After breakfast I decided to check out the Singapore Botanical Gardens. The cab ride over there was my first opportunity to see the city in broad daylight and by God, it is gorgeous. There are huge, lush trees and foliage everywhere, which creates this sort of rainforest/tropical juxtaposition to the urban-ness of the city. Totally beautiful.
The Botanical Gardens were founded in 1822 and are run by the National Parks Board. As I started into the park, there was this huge group of people doing tai chi, overlooking a giant lake of waterlillies...a really intense introduction to the Gardens. The highlight of the Gardens though (and the only section of the park that costs money), is the Orchid Garden. DID YOU KNOW, that there are over 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids in the Orchid Garden's collection? Of you course you didn't! That's why I picked up a brochure so that I could include that very interesting information in my blog!
A few more quick notes before we get to the good part (the pictures). It was insanely hot at the Botanical Gardens. Which is why I got a scoop of coconut ice cream and headed to the "Cool House" which housed the high elevation orchids and carnivorous plants. Although, I'm sure there are a million other amazing things to do in Singapore, the Gardens about did me in, so I decided to come back to the hotel and take a nap...or two.
My plane leaves for India in 3 hours...
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