About Your Tour Join Kim Woods Rabbidge in cosmopolitan Singapore to celebrate the tropics. A place where heritage, plus new, Singapore internationally acclaimed gardens are revered. Few countries in the 21st Century have put so many resources into gardens, generating opportunities and prosperity for residents, and Gardens Tour horticultural extravaganzas for visitors from near and far. This ‘City in a Garden’ showcases the most innovative With Australian Association of contemporary practices in the futuristic Gardens by the Bay. Friends of Botanic Gardens Giant treelike towers generate solar power used for garden Singapore has been serving high tea for more than one maintenance and !"#$the spectacular evening light show. 17– 23 March 2019 Marvel at vast displays of exquisite orchids; and explore lush hundred years. (B) trails connecting Singaporeans’ loved natural parks and urban Day 6 Fri 22 March Gardens by the Bay precincts. Foodies and collectors will love the buzz of markets. This morning, we will have another opportunity to visit Take a reflective moment at historic sites important to Australia. Retreat to your 5✮ Hotel at day’s end. Gardens by the Bay. Before heading back to hotel, we will walk through Marina One, ‘an international role model for living and working' by Ingenhoven Architects, landscape Tour Leader architect Kathryn Gustafson and her team. The highdensity Kim Woods Rabbidge, behind the popular building complex with its mix of uses extends to over 400,000 ‘Our Australian Gardens’ Instagram and blog square meters and, with its group of four highrise buildings, ouraustraliangardens.com, is an award defines the "Green Heart" a public space extending over winning garden writer and photographer, and several stories. Afternoon is at your leisure. Enjoy farewell researcher and scriptwriter for OAG’s DVDs. dinner tonight. (B, D) Her articles and photographs appear in several garden books, and national publications including Gardening Australia, House Day 7 Sat 23 March Depart Singapore & Garden, and RM Williams Outback magazine. From 2005 Tour arrangements finish after breakfast. Make your own way 2009 Kim was Qld Coordinator and National Newsletter editor to airport for your departure. (B) for Open Gardens Australia. Kim is the President of the Horticultural Media Association Queensland. Tour Prices (Per person, land only) Twin share: $3,350 Single room: $4,385 For more detail contact Opulent Journeys Tour price includes 6 nights accommodation in 5star hotel; Phone: 1300 219 885 6 breakfasts, 2 dinners and 1 high tea at Raffles Hotel; air Email: [email protected] conditioned coach throughout the tour; entrance fees to all www.opulentjourneys.com.au gardens and sightseeing as outlined in the itinerary. Not included: International flights; travel insurance; personal expenses and anything not mentioned above. Journeys that Take You to Far Horizons Journeys that Take You to Far Horizons Fitness Level Moderate India’s central strip that boasts a plethora of jewellery shops, traditional Indian tailors, everythingmustgo fashion outlets, fresh fruit and veg stalls, Chinese liquor stores, beauty salons, and of course, row upon row of delicious curry houses. (B)
Day 4 Wed 20 March Gardens by the Bay Today’s destination, Gardens by the Bay, offers breath taking waterfront views. The multiaward winning horticultural destination spans 101 hectares of reclaimed land. This extraordinary project, opened 4 years ago, is a complex of outdoor gardens and glasshouses on a massive scale. Advised by the Eden Project in the UK, it covers both tropical and temperate to cool climate specialist gardens. (B)
Singapore Gardens Tour 17 – 23 March 2019 Day 5 Thu 21 March Singapore Zoo & Chinese Garden Visit Singapore’s awardwinning wildlife park to see animals Day 1 Sun 17 March Arrive in Singapore as an education facility for Singapore gardeners. It is popular roaming freely in natural habitats. White tigers, pygmy hippos, Our tour commences from the hotel. A brief orientation once with gardening enthusiasts, families, and community groups and even naked mole rats get up close with the wildlife in you’ve settled into your hotel. Welcome dinner tonight. (D) who yearn for a tranquil environment. This evening feel free to the appealing Singapore Zoo. Set in 26hectares, it is home
soak in the beautiful experience of music and patterns of to over 300 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, and has Day 2 Mon 18 March Singapore Botanic Gardens & HortPark dancing light in Garden Rhapsody at Gardens by the Bay. been providing exciting wildlife experiences to visitors for over After breakfast we visit the beautiful UNESCO World Watch the iconic, towering Supertrees transform as the visual 40 years. Then we visit the Chinese Garden. Designed by Heritagelisted Singapore Botanic Gardens. With a rich sensory extravaganza brings a touch of magic. (B) Taiwanese architect Prof. Yuenchen Yu and built in 1975, the history, it is home to an array of botanical attractions and a space is modelled after the northern Chinese imperial style of plant collection highly regarded around the world. We also Day 3 Tue 19 March Singapore National Parks & Little India architecture and landscaping, particularly during the Sung look at the extraordinary ‘orchid story’ at the National Orchid We’ll enjoy a short early morning visit to Fort Canning Park, dynasty period. Set in the rustic environment of the Northwest Garden. Since 1928 the garden has been developing orchid an iconic hilltop landmark that has witnessed many of Kranji countryside, our visit to Bollywood Veggies is a step hybrids, which has led to a nationally important industry. We Singapore’s historical milestones. This historic place was back to Singapore's lush history. Rejuvenate your senses will look at the growing process of one of the world’s great once home to Malay royalty and it’s where the British decided over the High Tea at Raffles Hotel. The Raffles Hotel in collections. Then we will visit HortPark, a 9hectare site used to surrender to the invading Japanese during WW II. Then we head to the popular BishanAng Mo Kio Park . Under the PUB’s Active, Beautiful and Clean Waters (ABC) Programme, the old concrete canal has been deconcretised and naturalised into a beautiful 3 km meandering river with lush banks of wildflowers. This is followed by a visit to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore’s second ASEAN Heritage Park. Together with Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, it is part of the regional network of 30 protected areas, forming the complete spectrum of representative ecosystems in ASEAN. Afterwards we’ll explore Serangoon Road, Little !"#$%&'%(&)*!
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