Day started meeting Jamie Dunn who I had not seen in 7 years since leaving work, it was as though it were last week. We arranged to meet in the lobby of Tower 3 on the Marina Bay Sands hotel. The mega hotel featured on UK TV - 3x 55-story towers with shopping malls on the ground (1 photo of the inside) so many hotel rooms and a huge boat like roof terrace across the top with a surface area of 1 hectare!!! Having a bar area and infinity pool (guests only). Jamie took us to the top where we spent a couple of hours chatting and admiring the view - spectacular. (Photos of the ‘Gardens by the Bay’ and the Pit Lane for the Singapore Grand Prix).
We had pre-bought tickets for the gardens, so after lunch in the food hall in the hotel, we walked to find them. I keep using the word spectacular but this area was so - mind blowing in fact. The two domed structures were the ‘Cloud Dome’ (the larger structure) and the ‘Flower Dome’. Photos are of the former (note the real pitcher plants alongside Lego creations :-) ). The flower dome was nowhere as dramatic as it was filled with so many plants we are familiar with.
On to ‘Supertree Grove’ These structures are between 25 and 50 metres tall with several of them linked with an aerial walkway. Due to numbers of visitors, you are only allowed 15 mins up there - but what a view. The central tree is the largest and has a bar and restaurant on top; once again a must do, so we did and watched the lights come on as it went dark - magical!!
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