Singapore Botanic Gardens

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Singapore Botanic Gardens is amazingly 163 years old, known as the first UNESCO Heritage Site in Singapore. Also, it is the first and only tropical botanic garden on the list of UNESCO's World Heritage with over 60,000 plants and orchids. 

The gardens is now 82 hectares! Imagine that? 
Dear plantitas and plantitos, this is your one true paradise.😉 But for your eyes only. 👀 

This Botanic Gardens has has four-core concepts: the Tanglin core, where  you pass the historic Tanglin Gate, the Tyersall-Gallop, where some of the tallest trees in Southeast Asia are featured, the Central- the tourist belt of the Gardens, and the Bukit Timah- the educational and discovery zone, where children's garden is found. 

I did enter at Bukit Timah gate. 

You can go through the around 6-hectare tropical rain forest which is older than the gardens itself.  
The National Orchid Garden, that serves as the main attraction within the Botanic Gardens, is a wow, with more than 1,000 species of orchids and 2,000 hybrids on display!!!

Such beautiful orchids 🤩🥰

BURKILL HALL or the VIP Orchid Gardens, where you can see the orchids that are named after the VIPs from around the world who have visited in this garden, such as our beloved Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. 

Dendrobium Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad 

Dendrobium Rania Al Abdullah
Dendrobium Joaquin Alberto

Papilionanda Usha
Aranda Françoise Desquiron
And there's a lot more..... 

GINGER GARDEN

One thing that surprised me was their small man-made waterfalls and cave in the Ginger Garden.😃  
The BOTANY CENTRE and TANGLIN GATE are also interesting, where walkways are covered by leaf imprints, and walls are covered by ferns. 

Note: The Gardens is opened from 5AM- 12 midnight daily without a fee, except for the National Orchid Garden. 

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