by The Art Bug: beautiful places

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Globetrotting Diaries - Singapore Series 3 : Garden City

This Thursday let's continue My Globetrotting Diaries with the "Singapore Series" that I started sometime back.

This week explore "The City in a Garden" side of Singapore.

One might think of Singapore as a Modern Concrete Jungle, but believe me it is NOT!

With 300 Parks and 4 Nature Reserves along with rows of Trees and Greenery that line the expressways and streets, Vertical Gardens blending in the facade of high rise buildings along with Roof-Top Gardens, Singapore truly is a "Green Paradise".

Let's take a walk into this City Garden for now, later we will take a walk in the Nature Reserves and parks.There are so many pictures, but here are a few that I could shortlist.

Here are a Few of Many...

Vertical Gardens...

Roof Top Gardens...

Views from Roof tops...

Typical Road/Street Views...

Believe me there is Greenery everywhere, parks and sidewalks...

As if you are driving through a Rain-forest...

There is a a green patch everywhere...

Floral Sidewalk, it is like this most of the year...

Award winning Green Building- Park Royal Hotel...

View of City from Lotus Pond...

And Finally View from my Balcony in the midst of Downtown!...

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Globetrotting Diaries - Singapore Series - 1: Downtown

Wow, It has been 1.5 Years since we moved to Singapore! Time flies by so soon!

We are loving this beautiful country, one of the safest, greenest and cleanest cities in the World!

Moving to modern fast moving downtown from a suburban Dallas City was first a shock for me! But as we got to know this place we totally fell in love with it.

Some facts and a little history:

Singapore is officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is 137 kilometres north of the Equator.
Modern Singapore was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading post of the East India Company with permission from the Johor Sultanate.
Singapore is a rapidly growing city-state of nearly 5.4 million people. It is one of the smallest countries in the world. Also it has about 45 percent Expat population!
There are four official languages in Singapore: English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil which reflects the mixed ethnic make-up of the city.
Many Singaporeans have a habit of adding “la” to the end of their sentences. For example, “okay-la,” an example of “Singlish”.
Singapore is an extremely green city with gardens, trees and jungles everywhere. It is “city in a garden” in a true sense and is also very clean due to its littering laws.

Text Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore)

And now the Pics...

Marina Bay Sands Hotel... World's Most Expensive Building at US$4.7 billion!