By the numbers
11.01 kms
14,087 steps
The weather was looking a little iffy this morning and we were not sure if it would keep raining or not go anywhere. When we went down stairs for breakfast it wasn’t raining and would hope that it stayed that way. The original plan was to visit Changi prison, but the weather might not be so good if the tropical downpours happened while waiting for a bus. I went for the next best thing and that was Gardens by the Bay to see the one flower thing we had not seen and that was Floral Fantasies. I had been doing something different this whole trip and looking at flowers specifically Orchids. We sat and chatted with Dawn for a while before heading our separate ways.
The station from Novena we were heading to was Bayfront. We took the Downtown line from Newton. We knew that we would pop out of somewhere, but the walk took us past shops, though they were spelt as shoppes, so they were upmarket to what we wanted. The exit we had chosen coincided with the entrance to Floral Fantasies as we thought it was all the way down with the other exhibitions in the park. We were near the entrance and never seen this one when we walked through several days before. Basically we were inside the building with all the flowers. The displays were a mix of live plants and cut flowers. There was even several flowers that had crotched parts to them. Part of the experience was the Flight of the Dragonfly a 4D type experience where you sit in a seat with 3D glasses and experience the whole Gardens in the Bay from a Dragonfly’s view. You got squirted with water, felt fish skim by as they jump. There was even a poison frog display and when we first arrived there was only one showing and the others were hiding. We waited around a little bit as we kept going back and forth amongst the flowers and there was something new each time. When we visited the frogs again there were around 8 of them looking out with different colours. The phone couldn’t seem to get the colours right that I could see. Somewhere along the line a kid fell in the water.
After the Floral Fantasy we wandered through the gardens all the while spotting Orchids that were randomly in trees up high. I was told to keep an eye out or else I would miss something. We ended up having a quick bite to eat at the same place near the gift shop for Cloud Forest and Flower Dome. We had a nice wander back to the train or MRT. We got on the right escalator down as we were going to head to Botanic Gardens to see if we could spot Otters or even Monkeys. At the time we spotted neither, but the heat had come back in full force and I was a little worried with the cloud build up that we could get wet. We heard grogs and spotted more Orchids while wandering through the Botanic Gardens. We didn’t go too far as it was pretty warm as in hot and sticky, but we had a nice walk around anyway. If we didn’t go back then it would be just out luck that it would rain, but I did want to start packing as I had not started yet and wanted to have attempted to do so. We will be exploring Changi airport tomorrow as its one of the best to explore.
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