Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Singapore Botanic Garden

Went to Botanic Garden last weekend for a walk in this tropical Eden. Nice weather that day. A bit humid because heavily rain few hours ago. Botanic garden has 63 hectare large. And, we walked from Tanglin gate (one end) to Bukit Timah road (the other end) within 3 hours.

First we met up at visitor center to get the map. Journey begins! We stopped at the bandstand for photo-shooting. This bandstand is a landmark of this garden.


And then we saw some stunning sculptures such as 'Girl on the swing' and 'Lady on a hammock'.


Swan Lake. Initially those swans are trapped at the middle of the lake. We couldn't even take a picutre of them. When the tourists (including us =P) start gathered near the lake, those swan being set free. They even come nearer to us.






Main gate of Botanic Garden.

A lot of people from photograpy society also come here for practising their photo shooting techniques. I'm not interested on what they snapped in the garden, but I'm interested on their SLR camera. =)


Next, we found the heritage tree. Why is it so famous? because it appears at the back of 5 dollars note. Hehe... see, that's why we are holding 5 dollars in the photos.


The shortest sign board in the garden.


Water lilies garden.



Bonsai garden.

Unknown tree.



In the cave.

Jacob Ballas Children's garden. See what I did in the children playground? Hehe...

He was curious what this 'ah yee' doing in this children playground. =P

A dog wearing socks and shoes!!!
More photos in Flickr.
Operating Hours: open daily from 5am to midnight
Admission fee: free except for Natinal Orchid Garden
Tel: (65) 64717138 / 64717361

3 hugs:

Anonymous said...

Hehe, so when r u getting an SLR? =P

Connie said...

Errr... Don't know yet. How about you?
Hey, when is our next outing? =)

huichung said...

oh...nice place for relaxing wor!
somemore really like wat u say can learn how to take photo..haha