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May 19, 2008

A Visit to the Botanical Garden

Last Saturday, went to Singapore Botanical Garden with my family. Singapore Botanical Garden is the only botanical garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m. to 12 midnight every single day of the year, and does not charge an admission fee. The garden is bordered by Holland & Napier Road in the South, Cluny Road on the East, Tyersall Ave & Cluny Park Road on its West and Bukit Timah Road in the North.

Initially, we intended to have our breakfast at Prata Cafe located at Evan’s street. But on a second thought of the price, we decided to have breakfast in the food court at Botanical Garden. We ordered Roti Prata, Tissue Roti John, Chicken Mutabak, The Tissue Roti John is seriously huge.


Tissue Roti John

Ratings: (out of 5 stars)


Plain Roti Prata

Ratings: (out of 5 stars)


Chicken Mutabak
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

After breakfast, we walked around Botanical Garden. It has been a “thousand” years ever since the last time I went there for my photo shoot. Botanical Garden is really a nice place for photographers to catch a nice shot. For a day, I became a freelance photographer and took a lot of photos of the different varieties of flowers, plants and trees.

Enjoy the photos.

The Botanic Gardens has three lakes, namely Symphony Lake, Eco-Lake and Swan Lake. We went to the Swan Lake. At the lake, there was this scuplture. It was named the “Flight of Swans” and was installed in May 2006.

We went to Ginger Garden and National Orchid Garden. We wandered outside the National Orchid Garden cause there’s S$5 entrance fee for adults. So, we went to the Orchid Souvenier shop. Daddy bought me a nice necklace with real flowers in the silicon case and it costs S$15.

Then, we continued our walk.

Do you see the below familiar? It is Tembusu tree (Faraea fragrans), featured in our Singapore five- dollar bill.

 

 

 

 

 

Took this photo when this little boy was feeding the fishes.

 

After our walk, we left Botanical Garden and headed to Seletar Reservior. According to dadd, there are monkeys along the quiet road down from the main road to Seletar Reservior.Bu when we were there, we could only spot 3-4 of them. We sat by the reservoir and enjoyed the nice breeze. This is a good place for a picnic in the morning as the air there is fresh.

Looking forward to another day of “Close to the Nature”

Noteworthy @ 2:50 pm

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