When visiting a city for a city in the tropics for the first time I always hope to find an botanical gardens to visit. I find there is hardly anything more pleasant than escaping from the heat and bustle of a modern city into a little world of exotic plans, languid wildlife and local people going about their daily lives.
Singapore Botanic Gardens is one such place, and this year
became the country's first and only world heritage site. Established in 1859 by
the Agri-Horticultural Society, and handed to the government in 1874, Singapore
Botanical Garden has evolved into a
leading equatorial garden where major world crops have been launched.
As reported by the Straits Times this week, the government
has announced that it is expanding the botanical gardens to 82 hectares from
its current 74, adding a forest conservation interpretive centre, natural
history art gallery as well as ensuring the preservation of a number of colonial
buildings.
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