Today is going to be a long and busy day. This morning, we started with a visit to the Fort Canning Battlebox. It is located within the Fort Canning parkland, and a stone's throw from our hotel. The Battlebox is the facility where the allied forces managed the military effort in WWII as the Japanese invaded Singapore.
Inside the Box, there are many displays of the equipment that would have been used during WWII and very detailed, and almost life-like wax models of the soldiers involved.
We spent the afternoon in the hotel pool before returning to the Gardens for the evening light show in the Super Tree Grove.
The sun was just vanishing over the western horizon as we arrived at the Gardens. The lights were turning on illuminating various features including the giant steel drangonflys and fountains.
The Super Trees were also lit up and as it became darker, the picture changed. The lights gradually cycled through colours making for an endlessly changing scene.
The Rhapsody music started and the light show ramped up to match the flow of the music. We lay on our backs looking up at the show which ran for about 15 minutes.
What a great show! The Gardens had certainly delivered today. One last look at the Marina Bay Sands lit up before catching the train back to our hotel.
The Cloud Forest Dome was one of the highlights from today. There is nothing I've ever seen to compare it to. The complex is completely man made but the plants are very real.
The first thing you notice when you step through the door and into the dome is this huge waterfall & the immediate relief from the heat as the temperature drops 20 degrees!
The apex of the dome is directly above the waterfall.
There is a huge variety of plants with grouping in different zones. The Orchard zone was pretty popular and had many different varieties.
In a different area, pitcher plants.
Scattered around the dome are these dried vine sculptures.
We were intrigued to see these glass sculptures by Dale Chilhuly. We had visited his gallery in Seattle last year.
This display inside the Chrystal Mountain has a 360 degree motion projection of various forest themes.
