Singapore II

Thursday, November 04, 2010

We got up quite early, got some breakfast, and headed out to Singapore’s Botanic Gardens – called a timeless tropical Eden. It covers over 155 acres and what is amazing is that it is only about 5 minutes from Orchard Road and all of the shopping. We spent over 3 hours walking and taking tons of pictures. We only included a small portion of them in the slide show for the blog.

Some of the various areas are: Swan Lake, Ginger Garden, the bandstand, Children’s Garden (which we did not get to), Palm Valley and the National Orchid Garden. Tuck in around the gardens are some great sculptures – such as “Swing Me Mama” – all donated. There were a lot of people doing their morning exercise in the park. We would have spent more time there, but it was getting just too hot. It is a fabulous place though.

After getting refreshed at the hotel, we took off again to take a “Bumboat Ride” on the Singapore River. Bumboats were used to ferry cargo at Singapore’s historic trading port. There use to be 100’s of these caring goods and people around. It was quite an interesting ride.

After the boat ride, we got a late lunch and then walked and walked and finally got back to the hotel dripping from the heat and humidity and exhausted. We spent the rest of the afternoon reading and resting.

Note Charlie's new car -- a Lambrogini knock-off. It'll only do 150.