My Busy but Fun-filled Day Part 1... Chinese Garden

Recently, my 2nd BIL had introduced books authored by Neil Humphreys. He is a British who had lived in Singapore for 10 years. He wrote about his trip round Singapore in his 3rd book on SG and Chinese Garden was one of the location he went to. We realised that we had not been to Chinese Garden togther before. So there we went today!!! Started off at 8.15am to a good breakfast. Tada! Roti Prata! haha... It's usually our supper. And coupled with Teh Tarik. What a good start to this morning!

My last trip to Chinese Garden was with my family during Mid-Autumn Festival about 13 years ago. The entrance gave me the "Tang Dynasty" feeling with the cheena gate over there.
I felt that the main attraction there were the pagodas. In total, there were 3. Twin pagodas which stood side by side and the third, the high-rise pagoda(7 storeys high!). We did climb up the twin pagoda which were only 3 storeys high. The High-rise pagoda stood true to its title. It's really and situated on the top of a slope. You need to climb quite some number of steps to get to the ground floor of this pagoda. Hence, we gave it a miss. =P

There were not too many of visitors there. We went to the Bonsai garden, Garden of Abundance. A pity that the Japanese garden was closed for renovation. if not, we would have visit it.

It was fortunate that the weather was cloudy when we were exploring the garden. It started to get terribly hot before we left. An enjoyable trip. Pictures cannot illustrate well enough the beautiful scenary that we saw over there.

p/s: IMM had a face-over and new shops and eateries opened. I was surprised but nevertheless, my 1st stop was Daiso!!! Saw so many stuff. Bought a measuring cup (with the cup measurement, not just the ml) and some small items. Went to a new eatery called Taiwan Wan Jiao (hongkong style cafe). Their signatory fried rice and prawn paste chicken wings were yummy! Recommended!


My Egg Prata and Teh-tarik! It was not too oily. good start to my day.
The Twin Pagoda! Doesn't it look very calm and peaceful? The only thing that I don't like is that you can't help having some HDB flats in the background of my pictures. Argh! It spoils the whole picture man! The 7-storey High-Rise Pagoda! I took this at the bottom of the slope. didn't get up there.
I climbed onto a boulder located near the lower slope of the High-Rise pagoda grass field.
Flower shots time! Felt happy seeing this colourful flowers along a stretch of the path! Couldn't resist taking a shot of it! Seeing the flowers further brightened up my day!
Hubby took a close-up shot of this hibiscus. I like this shot.
Me being the girly me only saw this pink hibiscus and started to take a few snaps of this flower only. Didn't even bother about the white one.

Inside Abundance Garden. a mini-bridge.

This is the 13-Arch bridge! We came in by their West Entrance and had to cross this bridge before actually getting into the garden.
One of the twin pagoda. I love the architecture and must include the blooming flowers in the pic. hehe...
Only one of the twin pagoda's door is open and that we can climb up. Took this while we were on our way going into and up the pagoda.

Me enjoying the scenary before leaving Chinese Garden.
Crossing the 13-Arch bridge as we head to the carpark.
One last pic of the twin pagoda before we left. You guys must be so sick of the pagoda pictures that I posted. haha but I couldn't resist sharing it with you.

For one moment, I thought I was in Hong Kong Disneyland when I saw this bench supported by 2 "mickey mouse" lookalike cousins here in Chinese Garden! It was the ears, I guess. Then I realised there were these for the different horoscopes as well. this was the Rat bench. There were Monkey bench, etc. haha....