Gardens By the Bay -- Singapore

Cloud Forest Building

You enter in and are greeted by this amazing waterfall.  The cloud forest simulates....cloud forests, those forests that grow at high altitudes.

Start by walking around the base, which simulates the forest floor, plants that don't need much sunlight.

Then, an elevator to the top of the "mountain"

Venus Flytrap!

From the top, you walk down the ramps through the mist.

The Cloud Forest Building is part of the Gardens By the Bay Complex, which is from reclaimed land.  The Marina Bay is protected by the Marina Barrage, which is the dam and it's complex with the green (grass) roof.

I LOVE industrial and engineering things....probably more than nature.

I wanted to go INTO the pumphouse, but it's not allowed.

Getting onto the roof.

One of the other sites of the Gardens by the Bay are these "Supertrees".  They serve as both decoration and serve all the functions of a normal tree...photosynthesis, rainwater collection, etc.  The plants are slowing grown up the trunk.

There is an aerial walkway between the trees. 

At night, the trees put on a light show.  Every night at 745PM and 845PM.  No need to change the time for the seasons....as Singapore is 1 degree North latitude.  Singapore is the nearest to the equator I have ever been.