View from the roof of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel
-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 98
Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own images with an up or down perspective.
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I am in Singapore at the moment, on holiday with my daughter, who is on her way to Sri Lanka where she’ll be working on a voluntary mental health placement for 6 weeks. Singapore is all about looking up and looking down, so I just had to use it for this week’s challenge.
Today’s visit to the Gardens by the Bay was very impressive and the Supertrees there just had to be this week’s topic. There are 18 of these “trees” in the gardens, 12 of which are grouped together in a grove and are the ones featured in this post. These concrete and steel structures vary in height, from 25 to 50 metres. They are effectively vertical gardens, covered in a variety of plants, including bromeliads, orchids and ferns.
Supertree
You don’t have to be content with gazing up at the trees from below; there is a 128-metre long walkway that curves between two of the supertrees in the grove.
Running at a height of 22-metres above ground, it provides an up-close view of the trees and also some good views of the surrounding gardens, and beyond.
11 of the 18 supertrees are fitted with photovoltaic cells to harvest solar energy, which makes their night-time light show self sustaining. I’m hoping to get to the gardens in the evening in which case I’ll share some close up nighttime shots with you when I return home.
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The Challenge
Click here to enter the challenge
Welcome to week 98 and a huge thank you to all who participated last week.
All are welcome to join this challenge; do please share your up or down perspective with us. Simply create your own post as normal, create a link to this challenge and click above to enter your link and view other entries. If you have any difficulties with the linky, please just leave your link in a comment below and I will upload your thumbnail.
Finally, please don’t forget to go and visit the other challengers and pass on your views and encouragement.
To find out more about how to enter, click here. The linky list will open each Thursday at 00:01 GMT (or a bit before) and will normally be open for one week.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 22 July 2015
Travel with Intent 
Extraordinary garden, but I can’t focus after reading what your daughter is up to. Good luck to her! (BTW, I thought she was much younger 🙂 )
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Here is my link
http://josephelonlillie.com/2015/07/30/look-up-look-down-blarney/
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Wow! Those are cool “trees”. I will join the challenge! This will be fun!
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Look forward to having you join
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Absolutely fantastic, Debs! There’s a fine line between good innovation and over the top (ha! ha!) but these are wonderful. I was just thinking how amazing they’d be to walk at night. Just got to wait for the shots now 🙂 🙂
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Amazing! Not only these trees, but also the walkway! Thanks for sharing this feat!
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I was a bit nervous about the walkway as I’m not good with heights. But it was fine. A fantastic idea.
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I was last in Singapore 20 years ago and it has certainly changed a lot. Beautiful photos
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And they are still building!
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Fantastic shots! We were t here in February and absolutely thought it was a stunning park.
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Welcome and enjoy your stay! 🙂
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this is just amazing! enjoy your trip.
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This was really amazing photos of an amazing place. Never seen or heard of this before, it is really a place I would like to se with my own eyes.
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From above, they look more like mushrooms…
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That’s the eating gene coming out again!
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Yup… I see them sautéed in butter with a dash of black pepper and fresh parsley…
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How very curious!
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Here is my up and down view from last Sunday:https://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/the-lighthouse-of-hiddensee/
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Wow! What an amazing thing to create!
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That’s pretty awesome.
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That’s quite wonderful!
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Very interesting and creative what Singapore is doing. The first photo looks very other worldly.
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