After celebrating my brother's birthday at Coffee Club, we took a short train ride to visit the Garden By The Bay... Here are all the pics while we were in the park.
Tourist pic. Mommy's favourite.
We walked from "You Are Here" until The Canopy. Passing by Malay Garden, Chinese Garden and Indian Garden on our way.
Here are the famous giant trees. You pay $5 to go up. We didn't go. The light was strong and pics are over exposed. These tress are supposed to imitate real trees. With solar panels at the top.
The full beauty of the garden will only probably shows in 5-10 years time, when the plants are fully grown. Right now, it is still very sunny, in the late afternoon.
The Garden is great for its self sustainability. Supposedly some big thing which I have not quite read up. Like it will not used much energy or water to maintain, that kinda thing...and took a lot of planning. All who read through the process of building it say it is impressive. But I have not.
The Garden is right opposite Marina Bay Sands Hotel.
There's the Singapore Flyer on the left and the cool conservatory on the left. The conservatory shows flowers which grow in temperate countries. So one of the feature is that the whole cooling system in the conservatory is not aircon. But ...something, I dunno.
Chinese Garden. Many rocks. These individual gardens do not impress me at all. The Malay Gardens, quite a few huts lor, the Chinese garden, many of such rocks. These rocks do not satisfy the criteria I heard when I was in China.
When I was touring the Suzhou Gardens last times, the guides explained the rocks have to be 皱，瘦，陋，丑。to be of the best. Basically must be thin thin, wrinkled wrinkled, ugly ugly baru nice. But these aren't exactly thin or wrinkled. So imperfections.
The actual one in Suzhou:-
Maybe I am prejudice?
Plus...the red wall. Suppose to be white mah. Some more they hang a photo of a real Chinese Garden from China itself. Can really see the difference. Cannot get the essence or beauty of Chinese gardens at all. The real Chinese gardens are very beautiful you know.
Something like this..
How to say. Nothing to do with my photography, but the Chinese Garden at the Bay does not capture the true beauty of a Chinese Garden at all.
But I like this one. It is acutally a bodhi tree and they place a laughing buddha infront of it. Beautiful reference to the story where Buddha attained his enlightenment by meditating under a Bodhi Tree. Love it.
But why hor, the Laughing Buddha sculpture looks abit hamsup?
No he doesn't in some ways...What do you think?
One of the exhbits at the India Garden. In the Indian Garden, there are two fountains, and two rows of these sculptures.. Nothing much to see with my amatuer eyes.
Baobao looks away because they just had a tiff and he didn't wanna be in the same pic as Meimei.
These are, I believe, called succulent? The cactus type of plants. So beautiful !
We took a rest hear, near the conservaotory at the Bakerz Inn Cafe.
Tired. Rested and went enjoy aircon in the souvenir shop. Did not go into the conservatory.
Expensive. $20 per adult.
Rested, then go home.
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