Singapore Botanic Gardens - 1 Cluny Rd

The Singapore Botanic Gardens was successfully inscribed as Singapore's first UNESCO World Heritage Site on 4 July 2015. WOW! What a beautiful site. Luckily, my sister was my local guide and we managed to cover lots of ground in the couple of hours. It’s easily accessible by MRT. Do go there early or late in the afternoon to avoid the hot tropical sun. There are restaurants and cafes around too so you can relax after walking around. My favorites are the National Orchid Garden and the Swings Garden!!! The garden is huge and I’ll definitely check it out for that places I missed next time round. ??

This is a huge place with many areas suitable for different crowd. You'll find families and couples having picnic, joggers and plenty of beautiful scenery for you to explore and take photos. We went to the Swan Lake and we were fortunate enough to see one swan floating gracefully on the water. There were many kinds of fishes in the lake as well, and also large terrapins. On the other side is the large grass patch in front of the amphitheatre where they held various kinds of performances. That is one of the best spots for picnic because of the vast open space for your kids and pets to run around. Admission is free, carpark fees applies.

What can I say about Botanic Gardens? It’s one of our favorite places to visit and we go there quite frequently. It’s a reasonably large park with a lot to see over a range of different landscapes and themes. You can go there again and again and keep finding something new and engaging. It’s also a great place for a leisurely walk or a challenging run, as it’s fairly hilly. It’s only around 4km in circumference but if you learn the paths through the park itself (the signs can be confusing since the paths tend to twist and turn a lot), you can get in even 15 or 20km with little repetition. In addition to the plants and flowers, there is also a wide variety of wildlife: birds, insects, reptiles, and even otters and monkeys. There are also places to eat, drink, and just take a rest. There is also the National Orchid Garden inside, as well as a variety of museums. If you’ve never been or if you’ve been but haven’t fully explored all the park has to offer, please go and see all that it has to offer. You can even watch the robots go over the lawn at night.

During the Public Holiday visited Botanical Gardens which is a UNESCO sites. A wonderful place and must visit in Singapore. If one a passion for nature to see new trees, flowers, leaves, please visit. There is an Orchid Gardens, which has a nominal entry fee from $3-$15 depends on some categories. It is worth the money. There are 100s of Orchids and many varieties of other flowers. Air plants, mist house and many. Orchid Gardens has great collection, when prominent people from across world like Presidents, Prime Minsters visited Singapore, a new variety which is created will be named after them. There is a huge collection from 1953. Then we walked out and saw a Bonsai tress collection.

Amazing place to picnic, jog and have fresh air. There are many parts in the botanic garden like restaurants, kids garden, live music at the stage in the center of the garden, many entrance to the garden. What I like is the ease from the mrt to access the garden and have many chance to encounter different types of animals like monkeys, monitor lizard, various birds etc. Best to check the weather before going to botanic garden cause there is no rain shelter for most places, so best to have an umbrella for rain and really hot blazing sun.

Singapore Botanic Gardens is a large area with lush green trees. There are several sub-gardens inside it. Orchid Garden is definitely the prime focal attraction among them. It has various types of orchids in the garden. In addition, prominent personalities who visit Singapore and go the Botanic garden as well, specific orchids/flowers are named after them. Its amazing to view and explore this area.

Assumed this would be my least favourite thing to do in Singapore actually turned out to maybe be the best. The gardens are stunning, full of amazing trees, plants and wildlife. We saw turtles, several monitor lizards. Fantastic morning.

Gorgeous gardens, beautifully kept and maintained. Plenty of path ways throughout. Gardens have many different spaces with a wide variety of plant and tree types, a lot of wildlife scattered around too. Just a shame we couldn't spend longer there. Loved the orchid gardens the most, absolutely massive variety in orchids