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!...

Globetrotting Diaries; Singapore Series 2 - Zoo

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

The vast 28 Hectare, Singapore Zoo is the World's Best Rain-forest Zoo, It is amazing to see the animals which do not seem to be caged! It is almost an adventure finding the monkeys hidden in the trees and animals hiding in greenery! The exhibits are spacious and beautifully landscaped to give the look of a natural habitat. Also there are animal friendly and educational Shows to watch!

The zoo is visited by 1.6 million visitors each year. 

There are 315 Animal species in the zoo. So there is a lot to explore, let's begin...

Sharing just a few of my Fav ones, some of whose names I don't remember...

Squirrel Monkey...

Tapir...

White Tiger...

Pelicans...

Kangaroo... 

Emu...

Pheasant...

Lions...

Cheetah...

Toucan...

Free Ranging Orangutan...

Macau...

White Faced Saki...

Mouse Deer...

Baboons...

Chimps...

Giraffe...

Meerkat...

Warthog...

Crowned Crane...

Horn-bill...

 Here are the Bast Ones,
Kai-Kai & Gia-Gia -The Pandas...

 Inuka- The Polar Bear...

 And the Red Pandas...

Do you enjoy trips to "Zoo"?
Have you visited a Rain-forest Zoo?
What is the most fascinating animal you have seen in a Zoo?