{"id":14030,"date":"2016-03-23T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flavorsandsenses.com\/en\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:57:42","slug":"singapore-day1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flavorsandsenses.com\/en\/singapore-day1\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Singapore in 3 Days – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheSouthBeach<\/a>We arrived in Singapore around noon, and just the simple experience of the airport and the journey to the hotel was enough to realize this was a promising trip. The airport is super organized and the employees are extremely nice and polite, and already here was noticeable the cleanliness they’re used to.<\/p>\n

The trip from the airport until we arrived to our hotel was amazing because we got a quite complete notion of the city, giant buildings touching the sky, vegetation and beautiful gardens everywhere.
\nAfter resting for a bit in the awesome\u00a0The South Beach Hotel<\/em>\u00a0(see<\/a>) we took a cab and went discovering the city.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1st Day<\/h3>\n

– The Marina and its gardens\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We started at Gardens By The Bay<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This unique space is a park with over 101 ha of maritime landfill, better put, a place that once was water. The park includes three gardens in front of the shore, the Bay South Garden<\/em>, the Bay East Garden<\/em> and the Bay Central Garden<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The complex Gardens by the Bay<\/em> is part of a government strategy to transform the country from a \u201ccity-garden\u201d into a \u201ccity in a garden\u201d.<\/p>\n

The goal is to increase the population\u2019s quality of life through the introduction of more green spaces in the city (yes, even more).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0The impressive architecture of the Domes of Gardens by The Bay<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Gardens by the Bay<\/em> contains over half a million plant species, basically it has imported plants from all around the world, being a major part kept in a closed garden, in conditions to assure their survival, once their climate of origin isn\u2019t quite the same as in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, they bring a bit of several places in the world to the city.<\/p>\n

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Nowadays, it\u2019s the most visited place in Singapore.<\/p>\n

This huge park is constituted by five different spaces: the Flower Dome<\/em> \u2013 the biggest glass greenhouse in the world, with plants and flowers from semiarid regions and from the Mediterranean; the Cloud Forest<\/em> \u2013 a mysterious place that astonishes us with a mountain full of waterfalls; Supertree Grove<\/em> \u2013 emblematic tree-gardens with over 25 to 50 m of height providing shadow during the day, and full of life, colour and music during the night!<\/p>\n

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A must see is the Lights Show, 15min long, at 9:45 pm; the DragonFly & Kingfisher Lakes<\/em> \u2013 a true wonder of the aquatic life right in the centre of town; and the Heritage Gardens<\/em> \u2013 where we can discover the history and culture of Singapore through plants.<\/p>\n

The first two spaces are open from 9am to 9pm and have a cost of $28 (around 18\u20ac) and the remaining spaces work from 5am to 2am, for free.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cloud Forest<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

After visiting the complex we ended our afternoon watching the Lights Show, an amazing moment, in an evening full of fun, life and colour \u2013 have I told you that one of the best sensations of this trip was leaving the cold Porto and feeling the warmth of the Southeast Asia?!<\/p>\n

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