Singapore Gardens by the Bay (9/9/2012)

Sunday, September 9, 2012
Continuing the day at Gardens by the Bay, a new and extensive gardens built on reclaimed land beyond the Marina Bay Sands Resort:

Dragonfly Lake:

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Dragonfly Bridge leads towards the Supertree Grove:

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View towards the Singapore Flyer:

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Malay Garden; Brownea coccinea:

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Chinese Garden:

Sculpture "Li Xiang:"

Representing the Chinese diaspora, leaving home to venture out to foreign lands.
Quisqualis indica/Rangoon Creeper:

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Indian Garden; Ficus racemosa/Cluster Fig:

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Pithecellobium dulce/Madras Thorn:

Polyalthia longifolia var serpentina/Mast Tree:

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Petrified wood?

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Carved bench:

Inside the Cloud Forest, one of two dome conservatories, the waterfall:

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Tamiko photographing the mountain wall:

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Several Rhododendron subgenus Vireya:

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Rhyncostylis gigantea:

Amphidium californicum/a moss:

Took an elevator to the top of the "mountain" to the Lost World.
Possibly Nepenthes veitchii:

Paphiopedilum sp.:

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Cymbidium sp. buds to flowers:

Tamiko in the Lost World:

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Sarracenia sp.:

This one caught something?

Medinilla sp.:

Now onto the Cloud Walk:

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Waterfalll View:

In the Crystal Mountain; a geode:

Looking up at the ceiling mirror:

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Ending up down in the Secret Garden; water runoff:

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Another Paphiopedilum sp.:

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Cibotium glaucum/Blond Tree Fern fiddlehead:

Bromeliad's water collector:

Back outside, another view of the Marina Bay Sands:

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Mussaenda philippica:

Mussaenda erythrophylla/pink:

Mussaenda erythrophylla/red:

Heading back to the Metro where everyone was taking self-portrait photos in the mirrored walls:

At Great World City shopping centre; would you believe we had dinner at Kenny Rogers Roasters?

Angry Bird treats at a bakery: