River Safari, Singapore

My boy and I paid a visit to River Safari and Night Safari in April 2013.
Click on the names and check out the price for the zoos. 

We got a slight discount from the price we get because the river trails in river safari wasn't available yet. 

It is possible to visit all 3 zoos, Singapore Zoo, River Safari, and the Night Safari in one day. You can spend your morning in the zoo, afternoon in the river safari and evening in the night safari. You get cheaper deal for purchasing the combo tickets as well. We didn't visit Singapore Zoo cause my boy rejected the idea. He mentioned he went to the zoo a couple of times this year with his the army mates and his friends before I went to Singapore. So I have no choice to give up the zoo :'( . I love going to the zoo, I love animals! :)

Managed to snap a photo of the big sign board of the zoos

 Starting off the day with KOI, I finished it before the bus arrived :/ ; map of River Safari

Fishies on the ground

We went to the River Safari on a weekdays so it was extremely quiet, LOVE IT! Imaging you have the whole zoo reserved only for you ;) 

Few snaps shots from the River Safari, I will not post too much pictures here to spoil the fun of you guys visiting next time. But it was really great and relaxing, the sceneries are very nice and the weather is doing food for us too yay! 

The highlight of River Safari would be the Red Pandas and the Pandas! I think if you wanna visit the Pandas from Singapore Zoo, you have to pay extra (another 5 bucks, according to my boy). I'm a huge fan of red panda! They are extremely cute and fluffy!! The Red panda and Panda exhibition are air conditioned, so it is a good place to chill.

 Lying sexily on a branch x)

Waking up lazily

After exiting the Pandas exhibition, you will cross a bridge entering to another zone where the river trials will be. However, it was still under construction when we went there. There's a free walk monkey zone that you can see the monkey close up, but you are not allow to feed them anything.

Monkey

Another thing I liked about the river safari is the enormous aquarium at the end of the walk. A gigantic tank with dugongs and huge fishes. Air-conditioned, with benches accompanied by soothing music, is a great place to chill before finishing up the rest of the walk ;) !

Big aquarium 

Huge fish

Singapore Flyer, Singapore

Got onto the Singapore Flyer!

Not too sure how much we paid because my boy got it off the net, its a Garden by the Bay and Singapore Flyer Combo ticket (check out my post about Garden by the Bay here). I remembered it  was way cheaper than the regular price, S$33.

Start of the Journey of Dreams

The journey you will experience before getting onto the Flyer is called Journey of Dreams. Fancy technologies, interactive and very informative details about the Flyer. Is pretty cool!

Off to the Flyer! Photos are taken with my 1.5 years old Xperia Arc, sorry about the quality of the photos :/ 

 Another side of Singapore?

 2 Domes of the Garden by the Bay, some parts of it is still under construction when we took the Flyer

 The Floating Platform with colourful seating, the Helix Bridge and the Science Centre 

Pretty cool experience, if this is your first time going to Singapore and have spare time and money (is a bit pricy), I would recommended this. The down side is that you have to share the space with other people, there were 5 other people besides the 2 of us. If you are going with a reasonably large group of people you can try asking whether you can have the space to yourself. The Flyer takes about 30 minutes to go around, and obviously is best to go on a clear sunny day.

Garden by the Bay, Singapore

Garden by the Bay Day!

Garden by the Bay is a must go when you're visiting Singapore. As its name says, is a huge garden by the bay. We only walked through part of the garden, through the Indian and Chinese garden. We will definitely pay another visit to visit the Super Trees as we didn't make it to the Super Tree Grove because we didn't have enough time. 

 Dragonflies and Kingfisher Lake

 Super trees

There are 2 observatory domes, the Flower dome and Cloud Forest. The rest of the garden are free admission, but not these 2 domes. You'll understand why you have to pay for it once you pay a visit to the dome. Both 2 domes are air conditioned which is a relief for us. We were half dead walking through the outdoor garden trying to get to the domes :/ nice weather, but it was too freaking hot. 

Heading to the Flower dome! 

My boy got our tickets to both of the domes online along with an admission to the Singapore Flyer (click here to check out my trip to the Flyer), its cheaper than the regular price. 

Admission to both domes will be S$28 for foreigners and S$20 for locals. 

All pictures were taken with my 1.5 years Xperia Arc phone ;) 

 Flower Dome

Flower Dome mainly breeds plants from the mediterranean and semi-arid subtropical regions.   

2 of my favourite shots

 Eagle Wood Sculpture over watching the flower dome 

The Flower Dome

 Tulip 

It is really important to check the website about the maintenance date and the recent events so that you don't get disappointed and missed out various event happening in the domes. The flowers in the domes were maintained and changed throughout the season. We found out there is a Tulip Mania event happening later in the week and the workers were planting Tulips imported from Holland. We will missed out the event anyway because I will be leaving Singapore when the event is happening. 

Heading towards the Cloud Forest! 

If you are planing to make a visit to both domes, visit the Flower Dome first. The exit of Flower dome leads to the entrance of Cloud Forest. 

Cloud Forest is amazing! I loved it! Though is not as happening as the Flower dome, it does have its uniqueness. Cloud Forest is trying to mimic the environment in high mountains, breeding rare plants that will not be seen on the ground. 

Make your way to the highest point by taking the lift and slowly make your way down using the trails.

There is a Crystal Mountain floor where you can see interesting shapes of real stalactites and stalagmites.

Stalagmites

 Cloud Forest, Waterfall and Orchid, which is super rare and expensive in Australia

I believe Orchids are very hard to breed as well. At least my orchid plant takes ages to grow.

The Lost World

I think Flower dome and Cloud Forest are worth the money and worth the visit! It is air conditioned so you can take a break in the domes from the outdoor garden. 

And while we are making our way out of the garden after our visit to both Flower dome and Cloud Forest, we saw this, 

 Floating Baby out of no where looks kinda creepy .. 

I read the informations displayed but I forgot what it does or what meaning does it have.. 

And this conclude our visit to the Garden by the Bay. I will definitely go back to finish up the rest of the garden!

Strictly Pancakes, Singapore

My boy brought me to Strictly Pancakes when I went to Singapore in April. 

The idea of selling pancakes and pancakes only is not new for me, Adelaide's Pancake Kitchen does the same. 

Do check their opening hours if you wanna go there. I remember the first time we went they were closed for the afternoon. If you can, go there early, they always have queue. We were lucky to get in their with just about 10 minutes of wait ;) 

Got to the second floor and we ordered 1 sweet 1 savoury pancake. 

 Tiramisu (S$12)

I'm not a cream person, and by the first look, I didn't quite like it, there's just too much cream every where ._. 

I wouldn't say the taste is great, but is ok, interesting, although I can't quite taste the kahlua. My boy liked it. 

 Garlic Buttered Prawn (S$14)

I actually liked this, if they could give more sauce, that will be even better. They stacked up the pancakes and pouring the sauce over after, the second and the third pancakes underneath has practically no sauce over it and the sauce on the plate is just not enough for me. But overall, great taste :) ! 

Raisin butter and Syrup

Didn't quite like the syrup. It is kinda watery ): and of course the sweetness isn't there.