We have arrived at Gardens by the Bay.
This is a place that I have personally dreamed of visiting.
Me too.
I’m so excited to finally be here.
It’s a massive complex with different gardens
and conservatories,
domes,
different environments,
so there’s a lot to see here.
This whole complex cost about a billion dollars to build.
It opened about 10 years ago.
One billion dollars!
And that didn’t even include the cost of the land that it occupies.
So there’s a lot to explore here.
We’ve entered the first of two domes that they have here at Gardens at the Bay
and when you walk in, you’re just overpowered by this fantastic waterfall right behind us.
You feel the breeze and the mist and it just instantly cools you down.
I think it feels like walking into Jurassic Park.
Exactly.
You kind of hear that soundtrack in your head actually.
Yeah.
And there are two domes here.
This one is the tallest.
It’s a little bit smaller than a football field.
The other one is slightly bigger than a football field
just to give you an idea of how huge in size these are.
This is the Cloud Forest.
The waterfall is spectacular
and there’s platforms up above that you can actually go and walk around.
So I think we need to make our way up there and take a closer look.
We’ve taken an elevator up to the Lost World area
so you were right about Jurassic Park.
Yeah.
And yeah this is not the Amazon Rainforest we’re in right now.
It feels like it. -It does.
We’re surrounded by luscious plants.
About 99% of which would not survive outside of this conservatory.
They are really protected here.
And this giant dome…I can’t get over it.
We’re much closer to the top now so you can really appreciate the glass panels.
Between this dome and the other one, there are about 3300 panels.
Wow.
So if you’re ever had a skylight, you know how high maintenance a skylight can be sometimes.
That’s a lot of window washing. -Can you even imagine.
Yeah they have the window washers out constantly.
The budget to maintain Gardens by the Bay is about 58 million dollars per year.
28 million of that budget goes to maintaining these two domes.
And it’s easy to understand why when you see how immense they are.
And lush everything is. -And they also control the sunlight.
So they control the UV rays
and they help protect these plants so they can really thrive in here.
Obviously there are a ton of different plants here.
In fact, in the entire Gardens by the Bay complex, there are 19000 species and 1 million plants.
I wanted to show you one of my new favourites.
This is a carnivorous plant called the Pitcher Plant
probably because it’s kind of shaped like a pitcher
and it actually attracts insects to it in order to consume them.
It has sweet nectar right inside here.
So the insects are attracted to the sweet nectar.
They go inside the plant, then the nectar paralyzes them.
And you might think that this little flap on the top is somehow involved.
It’s purely practical.
It’s actually in order to keep the rainwater from going inside.
I think what’s so cool here is that you can walk on the inside and you can also walk on the outside.
Yeah, look at this huge path behind us.
It just winds its way in and out
and all the while with this dome right behind and above you.
With views of Singapore.
Spectacular.
This is the second dome.
It’s the Flower Dome and here they have plants from all around the world.
They’ve got a California garden,
an Australia garden,
a South Africa garden,
and they also have different exhibitions that change throughout the year.
Right now there’s one from Mexico.
I think one of the most interesting plants that’s found here in the Flower Dome is this behind us.
It’s a 1000-year-old olive tree.
A thousand years old!
I can’t comprehend how long that is
but the fact that it’s now been brought here to Singapore
and it continues to thrive thanks to this giant dome above it,
just kind of jaw-dropping.
One of the things I’ve noticed walking around here
is that it’s accessible for wheelchairs and strollers so everybody can enjoy.
We’re at a truly breathtaking part of Gardens by the Bay.
This is the Supertree Grove
and they are not kidding around with the word super.
It is just jaw-dropping.
These trees are incredible.
They’re metal trees.
There are eighteen in the whole garden.
Twelve in this grove here.
And they’re massive.
They’re 25 to 50 meters depending on the tree
covered in real plants winding their way up.
And they just trumpet up to the sky and flair out towards the top.
It is just incredible!
And we’re walking — you can see behind us — on the skywalk.
There it’s curving over there
and the skywalk weaves its way through these giant Supertrees.
It is just magical up here.
Otherworldly.
I’m just…I have no words.
I have dreamed of coming here and experiencing this
and now we finally are.
Every moment of Singapore just keeps getting better.
Yes.
Like look at this!
We’re in a much smaller space now called Floral Fantasy.
And if you look above us, you can understand why it’s a fantasy.
There are flowers everywhere hanging from the ceiling.
One or two that I recognize too.
Geraniums…petunias.
It feels really playful in here.
It does…it’s definitely one of the most colourful spots in this whole complex
and there’s some really fun, kind of enchanting details
like a little elf sitting there
that seems like something out of Chronicles of Narnia or Lord of the Rings
and like a giant bird with its pink eggs.
It’s very playful. -Yeah.
And it’s smaller and there’s just lots of cozy spots to sit and just enjoy the ambiance.
Wow!
That was a definite, definite highlight.
That place is sensory overload. -Exceeded my expectations.
Yeah.
Totally exceeded every sky-high expectation I had. -Me too.
I’m just in love with this city.
It’s like…a breath of fresh air. -It’s spectacular.
Yeah.
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