Saturday, October 20, 2012

Gardens By the Bay

One of Singapore's newest and most unique features is the Gardens by the Bay. Our taxi driver had not been to the Gardens by the Bay and dropped us off at the complete wrong spot so we had to walk through all the gardens, which ended up being nice, even though we had to make a stop off in a gift shop to cool down a bit.  Oddly enough the main features are not the Gardens, but the Flower and Cloud Domes.  We did grab a few shots of the gardens and super tree grove
View of Marina Bay Sands
Walking up to the Super Trees


Super Tree Grove

Inside the Mushroom Garden..Mushroom Chairs!

Little boat we found in one of the Gardens
Off to the domes!  We opted to check out the flower dome first.  It's a bit hard to put into words just how amazing they are so I will leave the pictures to do the talking..

Inside the Dome
They had an Autumn display.. nice to see some mums and pumpkins!
Spikey tree.. officially the "Monkey Puzzle Tree"
In front of the Baobabs Tree
 
 

Nate really loved these trees
Strange one




Pretty Flowers
I believe we have the white one back home

I liked the statue


Looking out at the Singapore Flyer

Mums and Pumpkins!
Bark was Prickly!



Up Close and Personal with the Bark

 


More Baobab Trees


A look down over the Dome

Strange Plant
Nate admiring the View
For some reason this statue cracked me up
Autumn Display







Off to the Cloud Forest Dome
"A 35-metre tall mountain covered in lush vegetation shrouding the world’s tallest indoor waterfall showcases plant life from tropical highlands up to 2,000-metres above sea level.

Ascend to the mountaintop in comfort by lift before descending via two walkways in the clouds for an aerial view of the canopy and mountainside below. Learn about unique biodiversity and geology of cloud forests and the environmental threats they face within the nine unique zones in this cool-moist Conservatory."


Waterfall
A bit windy

Should have zoomed in a bit

A look up at the walkways

Looking through the waterfall 


 More waterfall pics
They had the best little statues


Marina Bay Sands





The walk ways
 





On the walk way
Man in yellow did not want to move

 


At the bottom of the building 
 

Another look at the walk way



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