Mount Faber Park

Mount Faber Park, located at about 106 metres above sea level, is one of the oldest Park in Singapore, mainly covered by secondary rainforests and several landscaped gardens. Road and footpaths are available for easy access up the hill.

Standing at strategic look-out points in the Park, one can enjoy a panoramic view of the harbour, Sentosa and other southern islands, cable cars, Keppel Bay Towers, central business districts and Telok Blangah (Singapore housing estate).

Tourists can experience a free choice of activities ranging from nature trail walk and enjoying the tranquility, shopping at the souvenir kiosk, cable car ride, fine dining at restaurants like Sapphire, Empress Jade, Black Opal, Moonstone and Emerald Lodge, and photograph taking of its picturesque view.

To and fro cable car trips are available to Keppel Bay Towers and another favourite Singapore tourist spot - Sentosa. To make the cable car ride unique and long lasting, passengers can request for sky-dining and savour a romantic and sumptuous meal.

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Singapore Botanic Gardens

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Singapore Botanic Gardens - one of the world’s largest botanical reserves, a tourist and educational attraction, and an important institution for plant taxonomic, biodiversity research and conservation programme in the region. The park holds the important mission of connecting plants and people. Admission to the Park (with exception of National Orchid Garden) is free and it is open from 5am to midnight daily.

The park is the habitat of very wide varieties of plant specimens located in different settings like gardens, tropical forest, lawns, lakes, waterfall and fountains.

Its main attractions include:
1) National Orchid Garden
2) Rainforest
3) Evolution Garden
4) Ginger Garden
5) Jacob Ballas Children's Garden
6) Palm Valley
7) Lakes – Symphony Lake, Swan Lake and Eco-Lake.



Food court, restaurant, café, visitor centres and gift shop are also located within the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

For further details, please refer to http://www.sbg.org.sg/

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Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve

The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is a 130-hectare Nature Reserve located between Kranji Reservoir and Sarimbun Reservoir of Singapore. Sungei Buloh has the Malay meaning of ‘bamboo river’.

The park consists of the Visitor Centre, the Reserve proper (which consists of mangroves and man-made brackish and freshwater ponds) and Pulau Buloh, an island in the north (which consists mainly of mangroves). This is the habitat to over 500 species of wetland wildlife and flora and also a popular hangout for nature lovers.

Visitors can take the trails and mangrove walkway area while looking out for the different species of flora and fauna and with significance is the migratory birds. This is the first wetland Reserve to be officially gazetted in Singapore on 1 January 2002 and was globally recognized by the Wetlands International as a significant stop-over Reserve for migratory birds. During the Northeast Monsoon, the Reserve attracts hordes of migratory birds as far as Siberia.

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Other attractions include the mangroves, freshwater plants, crabs, mudskippers, spiders, shellfish, water snakes, giant size monitor lizards and visiting otters from Malaysia. There are birds like bee-eaters, bitterns, coucals, doves, herons, sunbirds, kingfishers, bee-eaters, tailorbirds, woodpeckers and munias.

It will be useful to bring along a camera or video to capture the nature of the wetland wildlife here.

More details

Website: http://www.sbwr.org.sg

Address: 301 Neo Tiew Crescent
Singapore 718925

Tel: +65-67941401

Fax: +65-67937271

Email: info@sbwr.org.sg

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