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Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 14, 2014

The Gardens by the Bay has two conservatories, the Cloud Forest, and the Flower Dome. The Cloud Forest is the big, splashy main event, but the Flower Dome was pretty cool too.

It’s divided up into sections, to showcase the flowers and plants that grow in different regions of the world, so you walk around into each section, and find yourself in Australia, or South America, or California, surrounded by those native plants.

My favourite part was the flower field in the center of the dome, it’s a themed flower display that they switch up every few months.

When we were there, it was made into a Persian garden, with lots of bright colours, and table displays.

There is a succulent garden, a large collection of cool, gnarled trees called Boababs, and an olive grove with a 1,000 year old olive tree.

I was eventually unceremoniously dragged out, apparently watching someone take 600 pictures of roses gets boring after awhile, who knew?

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Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 12, 2014

If you’ve ever seen The Jetsons: The Movie, and you remember the scene where Judy goes on a date with Sky Rocker at this amazing futuristic mall, then you’ve basically already been to the Cloud Forest, so no need to spend the money.

And if you haven’t seen it, go watch it immediately. I’ll wait.

OK, so you should probablyyyy still go see the Cloud Forest, all I’m saying is, whoever designed the place has definitely seen that movie.

As soon as you walk in, you are hit by a wall of mist from the water cascading over off the waterfall, which is the tallest indoor waterfall in the world.

It falls from the top of a big, beautiful mountain that’s completely covered in flowers and plants, and as you walk around it, you climb a spiral ramp to the top of the glass dome, where there is a stunning view of the Gardens, and the rest of Singapore.

There are about a million different kinds of orchid, and it’s nice and cool and misty in there which is worth the cost of admission just to get out of the Singapore heat for awhile.

As you walk through there is lots of information about natural cloud forests, and the different plant and animal populations they support in nature.

It’s really an amazing place, even if you don’t know anything about architecture and design, which I really don’t, you can tell that it’s very unique.

Seeing the Cloud Forest is one of the big reasons I wanted to visit Singapore, and I was not disappointed.