Singapore Botanic Garden
Last weekend I went with Cia and Seung to the Singapore Botanic Garden, which is also the home to the National Orchid Garden.
It was a nice little excursion, despite the fact that we couldn't find the right bus stop so we decided to take a cab. But the cab driver thought we said we wanted to go to the "Chinese Garden", despite saying several times that our destination was the "Botanic Garden". So we ended up at the very edge of the earth, or at least the very edge of Singapore, which really isn't that far from the rest of Singapore, as the city isn't very big. But we had to take a bus, then MRT (like our Skytrain) then another cab to get to the garden. Phew!
It was interesting to see the gardens as I am using them in a case study for one of my courses, Changing Landscapes of Singapore. The case study looks at the use of nature in Singapore, and how nature is used for the betterment and development of the nation, rather than for conservation or nature preservation. For example, the main "goal" of the garden is to be known worldwide as a tourist destination, and all of the natural "green lungs" of Singapore have been transplanted and are man-made - little of it is truly natural. But more on that in another blog post, here are some pictures:
It was a nice little excursion, despite the fact that we couldn't find the right bus stop so we decided to take a cab. But the cab driver thought we said we wanted to go to the "Chinese Garden", despite saying several times that our destination was the "Botanic Garden". So we ended up at the very edge of the earth, or at least the very edge of Singapore, which really isn't that far from the rest of Singapore, as the city isn't very big. But we had to take a bus, then MRT (like our Skytrain) then another cab to get to the garden. Phew!
It was interesting to see the gardens as I am using them in a case study for one of my courses, Changing Landscapes of Singapore. The case study looks at the use of nature in Singapore, and how nature is used for the betterment and development of the nation, rather than for conservation or nature preservation. For example, the main "goal" of the garden is to be known worldwide as a tourist destination, and all of the natural "green lungs" of Singapore have been transplanted and are man-made - little of it is truly natural. But more on that in another blog post, here are some pictures:
posted by Colin at 5:44 p.m.
1 Comments:
Nice pix Colin and quite the travelogue to boot! The new camera seems to be coming in handy. Did you sign your name to the tree? Is that a capital offence? Were there...um..spiders in the gardens? Rumour has it that there spiders afoot elsewhere!
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