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| world's largest waterfall |
Hot, not too sticky, partly
cloudy, 30 degrees
Today is our last day in
Singapore, so we decide to spend it off of Sentosa Island.
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| I can't get enough |
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| I choose the one on the right |
The main attraction for today is Singapore’s
Gardens by the Bay – a huge complex of indoor and outdoor gardens. One of the 2
indoor gardens is the Cloud Forest. This conservatory displays plant life from
tropical highlands up to 2,000 metres above sea level. As soon as we step foot
in here I am in love. It is cool and moist – the moisture coming from the world’s
largest indoor waterfall. The other indoor garden is a Flower Dome, which I
thought I’d prefer to the Cloud Forest…wrong! The Flower Dome is lovely, but
not as spectacular as the Cloud Forest.
The Gardens by the Bay is right
next to the Marina Bay Sands resort. This is a huge casino, hotel, shopping
complex. We considered staying here and I’m glad we didn’t. It is very busy and
I am very happy with our choice of the beach resort where we are. The Marina Bay
Sands has a roof-top (57th floor) infinity pool and restaurant/lounge
which is pretty mind blowing. We have a drink at the top and manage to time our
visit with Singapore’s daily rain storm.
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| overlooking the pool |
Although we took a taxi to the
gardens this morning, we decide to try Singapore’s metro. I always love trying
public transit…gives me a feeling of accomplishment.
Dinner tonight is at the hotel
buffet where I try Japanese snails – very interesting and cool looking. I can’t
quite cope with getting them out of their shells by myself, so the very helpful
waitress gets the chef to do a bunch for me. They are quite dense and sweet
tasting - eating these is something else that gives me a sense of accomplishment. With this meal we think we spent all of our resort credit.
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| Marina Bay Sands hotel |
Tomorrow is our last travel day for the next 50! We predict it'll be a 10 minute taxi ride - not bad as far as travel days go.
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| infinity pool 57th floor |
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| assorted shellfish including the snails |
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| Japanese snails out of the shell |
1 comment:
Gardens by the Bay looks amazing!
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