well finally! it has reached the last part....after SPAMMING you guys with all those photos :> well i am so continuing on that rampage for this post too! its just such a good feeling to be out of camp on this thursday morning all thanks to national day :D guess what! i slept at 3...because i drank 1x large milk tea and 1x coffee in the night. GG-fied much! oh and the time i woke up? 0600hours. usually in camp, i got to wake up at 0500 hours. hmmmm....this military body clock of mine doesnt quite fit into my civilian lifestyle. not at all in fact ;) on to the tropical climate conservatory! gonna finish up this post before i get started on Lego~ mum bought a new set for me!



okayyyy for the start of the conservatory, i was totally shocked! first, it was windy, then it felt chilly and then it was all misty! woot it was just so much fun to be in the area! its really cold inside when they combine strong winds and cold air! along with a.....waterfall!!


somehow the photo doesnt capture the sheer height of this massive structure...imma hope some of the others do! :D i was absolutely impressed with this. i was never expecting such a spectacular structure hiding inside the steel frames! bet the architect is super happy by how the whole project was completed. really really well done!


aha thats mum!

thats me!


this is just at the left corner of the structure, the route that leads to the misty adventure up ahead :) i am a big fan of mists! love it when you walk around in the misty area and the tiny water droplets lightly breeze your skin


took this shot from a vertical angle up! thats one of those walkways that arc around the whole structure. if you ask me, throw in a couple of 4-wheel-drive buggies and you are gonna have an awesome rollercoaster ride down from the top! there are more awesome features to this :P




this is the entrance to the structure, the tour starts from the top! so its just a downhill walk all the way. so much easier and friendlier! at least this wouldnt put much strain on my injured knees. take a lift all the way up and climb a short flight of stairs!





THIS is the top of the structure. still a little misty at the top! at least they didnt overload the entire conservatory with mist -_-"' that would be just...weird. and a little irritating. wonder if the surrounding structures or the glass panels will start to turn mossy green! you know...that's what happens to anything that is kept near to tropical plants especially.



following are a few photos of the top before i head to one level lower! enjoy the slew of photos!













from here on, it is a gradual downward trip aaaaaaaaall the way down till you hit basement! pretty awesome eh! its not really basement but sort of basement? *confused*



by late afternoon, it was starting to get a little crowded..junior college school students start streaming in.. mothers with prams... and this is also when i actually noticed that the walkways that stream all the way down are really friendly to pram or wheelchair users! its wide in the middle and it is laid with a strip of non-slip material. :)


hehehe i love this shot! see how those trees become like flowers! =P



that's pretty complicated O.o


aha! this is on the lower level already. so this is how it works. you walk walk walk down the streaming walkway that winds in and out of the structure and you will find yourself back into the structure with some exhibits. :)


as you can see, the water goes all the way down! so when you are standing on the first floor like where i was at the start, the water just plunges straight through the ground, all the way down to the basement! better than it ending on the first floor and you see the water splashing all over. bahhhhhh


so which side is up which side is down! i think these are called staglamites? hopefully i  get the spelling right! so far i only got to see these overseas in caves..no way you can find it in singapore man. but i think they should cordern off a larger chunk of area to keep public further away from these precious stone formations...what i know is that usually we dont touch such things because the salt on our fingers will permanently damage the staglamites...unless they actually sprayed a layer of coating -.-


even a small kid can easily touch it! its good to get a close up view though.


this shot was taken at around the midpoint of the structure? used the super vivid colours function to more easily capture all the different colours of the tropical plants :)


this is at the basement? well before this was a short clip of what would happen if the planet's temperature increased by 5 degrees celcius within the next century. sounds pretty possible and i hope it whacks something into those people who have little care for nature. funny thing is if they didnt really care for Gaia, they wouldnt even be coming to Garden's by the Bay eh? -_____-


look at that teeeny weeeeny water droplet at the edge of the leaves! glittering in the sun :> too bad i didnt have those lens that allows these droplets to sparkle. wonder how they catch such shots.




THIS IS THE END OF THE TROPICAL CONSERVATORY!
in my opinion, this was a WOW factor but the temperate climate conservatory seems more interesting? in terms of the kind of plants you see. :) as in when you go into the temperate one, you dont feel like you are in singapore? but when you enter the tropical one, the waterfall is a massive shocker but yet it doesnt feel like you are in the tropics~ wish they had those really thick forestations like the amazon forest. that would be really enriching! oh by the way, the walls of the structure is peppered with orchids!


not willing to spend a bomb on this. i forsee dust collecting over such models..



guess where this photo is taken from!

its from the OCBC skywalk :)

the skywalk was....unimpressive. to me, it was just walk walk walk then done. nothing special...
for $5 its okay to get the feeling of how its like being up there? but i wont be willing to pay that amount in future. it was a one off thing for me.





its like a one-way thing. frankly speaking it looks as though the idea was shabbily concocted. The idea itself is good, but the way the structure was built - the width of the walkway and the length of it..just wasnt to me liking. if you wanna make it a little adventurous, make it super thin! like the fella got to hold on the handrails for both sides. rather than a not here not there kinda width. put a pram in the middle and no one can pass. and the length is miserably short. -.- next photo is a shot for my mum and she is standing at the end of the skywalk!

its seriously wayyyy too short. it would be really cool if they had more super trees planted around the whole garden, then weave the skywalk around, creating intersections at some points. that will be WOW. of course feel free to charge higher rates!

overall, the skywalk is just a one off thing. pay the $5 for the experience. its way too inconvenient up there. the conservatories however are totally worth every single cent! that i dont mind continuously going for it. its just so relaxing to take a slow walk around and savour the delicious sight of beautiful plants!

Gardens by the Bay is a MUST go. for tourists and locals alike.


i like the supertrees concept!


now that its national day holiday, its time to get building! taking a short break from those precision work of mine. :) those tend to be more on the serious side. LEGO on the other hand...is totally fun and relaxing! i really miss making awesome creations~



This looks really cute! =D
so fast and lego is once again out with another winter collection~