Singapore 2024

Sunday17November

Here we are in the Flower Dome, one of the greenhouses of Gardens by the Bay. Recreating a Mediterranean type climate, cool and dry is the ambition of this vast glass shell without internal pillars.  

The glass and steel vault rises to 38 meters high.

"The Family of Travelers" by French sculptor Bruno Catalano, is made of bronze. These sculptures are distinguished by their incomplete bodies, a signature of the artist.

Marguerite daisies (Argyranthemum frutescens).

It's almost carnival in the middle of the dome...

An exhibition "Impressions of Monet" offers a contemporary reading of the work of the Impressionist master. It combines digital projections of his most famous paintings in an immersive journey, notably in his garden at Giverny.

Spring and Water Lilies, two paintings by Claude Monet.

And one of the most iconic. Impression, Sunrise.

We now pass into the Cloud Forest, where its 35-meter indoor waterfall flows along its green wall.

A whole course will take us to the top, in the humid canopy of the clouds.  

The Cloud Forest greenhouse shelters an artificial mountain 42 meters high, entirely covered with vegetation.

The "Cloud Walk" walkway winds around the plant mountain while climbing to its summit... Impressive.  

We enter a pseudo forest where light plays are from floor to ceiling.

There, the domes kept us locked up for almost two hours! It is high time to go out for some fresh air and climb to the top of the Supertrees!