R. Doug Wicker — Author | Stories of Mystery and Adventure

Today we continue with a photo tour of Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. As I said on Monday, there are a lot of things to photograph in this enormous park, including statuary. For instance, the image above is “Magnificent Bull” by Maryland artist Walter Matia. And, while this sculpture has nothing to do with Wall Street, the patrons of its creation and installation are Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. But let’s back up for a moment and run the rest of today’s article in the order in which we encountered the images presented below, starting with this convenient map located outside the Gardens by the Bay MRT Plaza (station TE22):

Gardens by the Bay MRT Plaza (station TE22)

About nineteen minutes after exiting TE22 we found ourselves in “The Canyon,” a collection of naturally carved rock sculptures by the late Japanese landscape designer Jun-ichi Inada:

“The Canyon” rock sculpture reminiscent of a dragon

Of course, these are gardens, so there are plenty of flora to photograph as well:

Looking over the trees, you’ll find other interesting views, such as the top of the world’s largest greenhouse — the 3-acre/1.2-hectare Flower Dome:

But the truly defining feature of Gardens by the Bay are the eighteen Supertrees, twelve of which are located in a single “grove” that includes a Supertree Observatory which at 164 feet/50 meters towers far above the everything else in the gardens. For domination of the Gardens by the Bay skyline, the observatory is rivaled only by the nearby Marina Bay Sands. In addition to the observatory, there is also an OCBC Skyway (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation), a 420-foot/128-meter walkway suspended 72 feet/22 meters above the ground.