Thursday, 26 May 2011

Singapore


A beautiful and gentle Orang utan at Singapore Zoo. Without any doubt Singapore Zoo is the most beautiful I have ever visited. It made such a refreshing change to see the animals given plenty of space and not in tiny cages. The first animals we saw on entering the zoo were the Cotton Top Marmosets. These beautiful little monkeys were living in the trees near the entrance and you could reach out and touch them. Picture below.

Here's me at the World famous Raffles Hotel.

While there Taras and I enjoyed a High Tea in the lavish Tiffin Room.

This was my first visit to Singapore but it certainly won't be my last. The country is spotlessly clean, the transport is easy to navigate (even for someone like me, who was once told he couldn't find his way out of a paper bag) and the shopping malls are fantastic for those wanting to shop, shop, shop.

The Garden - twelve months on


As promised, here is an apdated picture of the garden I designed and built shortly after arriving in Australia last year.