Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay

Gardens by the Bay, Cloud Forest is one place I love to visit to be immersed in the cooling dome with a artificial 35 metres tall mountain where you get to see rare plants in cloud forest from round the world. In the Cloud forest, Gardens by the Bay, you see plants like ferns, begonias, pitcher plants from tropical highlands to cloud forest of up to 2000 metres above sea levels.  Cloud forest varies between 500m to 4000m above sea levels and represents just 2.5% of the world's tropical forest. The nearest cloud forest to Singapore is Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. 

It can be quite cold in the dome at about 20 degs celsius. If you are afraid of cold, bring a jacket along. This cloud forest dome is designed like a real cloud forest where temperature range from 8 to 20°C and you see fog. 

We took a lift from level 1 to 6 and climbed the stairs to level 7. From level, we 

descended via the Cloud walk, a harrowing walk if you are afraid of height.

Ticket price: Local Resident $12 to Cloud Forest only and $20 for Flower Dome and Cloud Forest ( Need to bring relevant documents for verification) 

                      Tourists: $28 for two conservatories

How to get there?

Address: 18 Marina Gardens Drive
                Singapore 018953

Time: 9.00 am to 9.00pm

Alight at Bayfront MRT Station CE1

For more information, go to Gardens by the Bay Cloud forest website.

First published on 13 July 2014

When you enter the entrance, you'll see the cascading waterfall from 35 m tall artificial mountain

 Floor is wet due to fog

 

Mountain guide

 Transport to the mountain via the train. 

 This model is built to scale and showed how necessities are transported via train to the village in high mountain.

 Take the lift to level 6 or 7 (for elderly and handicapped) and walk down via the Cloud Walk

 At level 7 of the cloud forest

 This is one of my favourite flowers at Cloud forest

Another lovely flower

 Engender species : Only about 600 mountain gorillas left in the cloud forest of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda.

 Unique looking plant

 Orchids in the mountain too

 If you are afraid of height or have high blood pressure, then it is not advisable to use the cloud walk.

 Leaves or flowers? So beautiful!

 Valuable gems like precious metals, crystals and rocks are formed in high mountain. Many cloud forest mountains from around the world are at threats from mining.

Can I bring this Amethyst crystal home?

 An overview of the Gardens by the Bay at Black Box which shows how self-sustainable the garden is by using discarded plants as fuel to provide energey to cool two conservatories namely the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest dome.

End of the Cloud Forest walk