National Orchid Gardens

We then (second), visited the National Orchid Gardens.  It's a big attraction and also on our list.  It is located within the Botanic Gardens, which themselves is impressively expansive.

Walking up to the entrance:

We found lots of fountains:

We also found some great little critter and photo-op places:

Here are SOME of the exotic, beautiful flowers and orchids that we saw.  Some of our friends have said that of all the pictures they take and send to their families back home, often there are more of the flowers than of their kids.  Believeable:

 

 

Here is the national flower of Singapore; the write-up about it; the side of a "Black and White" (the traditional British house found on base and many various other places around Singapore); the flower dedicated to Dr. Jane Goodall (primatologist...appropriate after seeing monkeys this morning) in the "Celebrity Garden"; and the outdoor auditorium just below the Orchid Gardens where a Christmas performance serenaded us during our visit: