Close to Nature (travel diaries-Singapore)

in #travel6 years ago (edited)

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Singapore is known as "Fine/Clean city", a city of modern architecture with landscape.

This is one of the coolest island city state which developed so fast that became one of expensive luxury city through the whole world.

Today i am going to write about a place which is so fasinating for those who is nature lover. This place is called Singapore Botanic Gardens which is first and one & only tropical botanic garden on the UNESCO's World Heritage lists. It is the first garden among in Asia continent .... source

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"Singapore Botanic Gardens" is 158 years old tropical garden including other 3 parks which has ranked Asia's top park attractions in 2013. There are 47 heritage trees in the whole garden.This garden was founded by argi-horticulture society in 1859.

The National Orchid Garden,is known as for orchid studies and a pioneer in the cultivation of hybrids, which is aided by the equatorial climate.it houses the largest orchid collection which is included of 1,200 species and 2,000 hybrids.
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Total area is 32 hectares... huge!!! isn't it!!!!

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This garden open from 5.00am to 12.00am till midnight and there is no entrance fees except "National Orchid Garden". If you want to know more details you can go here..
These gardens are developed by the 3 core gardens concept consist of Tanglin ( the heritage core) including old favourites rustic charms of historic gardens, Central Belt is famous as tourist garden and Bukit Timah reknowned as recreational zone.

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Swan Lake:

Most famous well known among total area is Swan Lake , an artificial lake with full of fishes including white swans and turtles..People love to spend good time there and walk around the lake. Total area of the lake is approx 1.5 hectares, located in Tanglin Core. There are sitting arrangements around the lake so that people can spend times there. There is also a victorian cast iron structure shelter called "The Swan Lake Gazebo" is famous for photoshoot. Source

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Well all i can say that it was a great hectic day for me as it was summer but really enjoyed to see this world heritage site...They preserved all the plants so beautifully and it's a reserved area for plants conservation...

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