hi everybody welcome back to Gemma and George in today's video
we're in Singapore! At gardens by the bay!
hi everybody welcome back to gemma and george, if you're new here my name's gemma.what's your name?
I'm george! a we're a family of three who spent my maternity leave traveling around the world
and we've recently moved to singapore in today's video we're here exploring
gardens by the bay and every monday at 7pm we'll be releasing new videos exploring our new home
today we're going to catch public transport and the infamous MRT system here at singapore
we live on the yellow line and that's this big circle on here and this is where we're trying to
get to which is bay front so instead of going all the way around we're going to cut across
so we're going to start here on the yellow we're going to go straight across on the purple
to chinatown then we're going to get on the blue line and we're going to go straight to bay front
and then we'll walk from bare front and get to gardens by the way
just heading now on to the next train so we're going to swap from yellow to purple
and head to chinatown
heading for the last train now which is the blue line and that will take us to bayfront wow
gardens by the bay is free to visit and it's open from 5 a.m
until 2 a.m. 7.5 million tourists have visited and enjoy this very special gardens by the bay
one thing we've learned last living here in singapore is that the country is really committed
to being eco-friendly and sustainable and gardens by the bay is a wonderful example of that
it is home to over 1.5 million plants and as you walk around you can see a variety of colors
size shape and specimen all around you free of charge
took us around maybe 30 to 40 minutes to get here on the mrt i'm going to try to find um some food
first turns out that george is pretty hungry we're both quite hungry as well there's quite a lot of
western um options for you there's a starbucks there's shake shack there's mcdonald's and but
you'll find that the keys for those are really really big we're just gonna feed george his own
lunch boxes on a sandwich right now and then as we're walking around we'll try and get ourselves
a little bit of a snack aside from the different attractions here at gardens by the bay you'll
notice that regularly they'll have different attractions and flower shows depending on the
season it's always worth going to the website and having a look at what's available sometimes they
have flower shows that are specific to different types of flowers or specific to different types of
regions or different types of seasons and as you can see behind me right now they've got tulipmania
last time we were here george was 12 weeks old and this was the beginning
of our maternity leave and the travel that we embarked upon
there was no gemma and george then we'd not even thought about running a blog or a youtube
channel or anything like that we were on our way to vietnam for our friend's wedding
just next to the trees we found an air-conditioned food mark we're
gonna get some food from fall street which is really nice vietnamese food
cheap and cheerful which is what we're all about what would you like to eat george?
ice cream! do you actually need some ice cream? yeah yeah
we've just booked our tickets for the cloud forest online
lots of the ticket desks are closed and that's due to corvid so when you do come here and you
do want to go into some of the activities like the cloud forest or you want to go into
the observatory deck or on the skywalk you will be required to purchase tickets online
you can do that through the app or you can do that on the website and there are people
and members of staff dotted around in certain areas to help guide you through that process
we have been buying our tickets as we go along with the half an hour slots that are available but
because we went to the flower one last time we've decided to try for the cloud forest this time
well don't feel the need to when you're coming and have all your slots booked well in advance because
it's really hot you don't know what happens toilet breaks
walking to actually get to the destination so we've got 40 minutes now a nice leisurely stroll
little bit queasy because it does move and so i'll be walking through this rather quickly
george won't walk so i'm having to carry him but nathan enjoys all of these things and
isn't frightening in the slightest of heights so i'm doing quite well don't know what he's doing
this place is awesome it literally feels like you are in pandora from avatar awesome
george is absolutely wiped out he's been running around i've never seen him run so fast day just
talking then that we can remember things from when we were here last time we can't really remember he
remember it was warm but we don't really remember the heat but now as we're here walking around we
were here with nana Sue, nathan's mum then and we can almost like with really specific detail
pinpoint exact pictures like just back there we saw a tuk-tuk and it was all like illuminated and
we were just thinking why did we not go into that cloud forest last time probably because
of the heat we were probably just too exhausted at that point um to do it so i think if you're gonna
come here you're not gonna be able to do it all in one go you need to separate it so we've done like
half of the park and then we've done the cloud forest we've not seen any of the art sculptures
we've not been to see tulip mania and we're hot sweaty and bothered and exhausted george is gone
it's crashed just about to head home now and catch the MRT what a wonderful day and you've
got to remember as well that here at singapore things are expensive but gardens by the bay you
can walk around you can cycle you can run scooter and it's all for free and then to go into the card
forest or to the floral exhibitions is minimal really eight dollars twelve dollars and we've
done some attractions today it was eight dollars each plus another twelve each and then the food
cost twenty so all in all we've probably spent sixty singapore dollars which is around thirty
uk pounds we've been out all day even though it's warm there's shaded areas and the aircon
that cloud forest is awesome it's literally like walking around in avatar i really really recommend
gardeners by the bay now i understand why it's one of the main things to do here in singapore
thanks for watching hope you enjoyed our video of gardens by the bay
don't forget we release new videos every monday at 7 pm
don't know what we're going to do next week but not out for something touristy!