Taking a stroll in Ang Mo Kio Heartland

Last weekend, hubby and me went to Ang Mo Kio Heartland for dinner and took a stroll in the estate. Saw the estate well decorated for Chinese New Year too.

Being the year of the horse, saw a pair of horses in the middle of the heartland.

Well loved God of Fortune.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden Part 5

Spotted a lot of these powder puff flowers in the garden. I guess they are called powder puff becuase they looked like the powder puff in the cosmetics or is it the other way round.

Since I started blogging, I try to make an effort to find out the names of flowers and insects.

This is the last post about the garden.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden Part 4 - Dragonflies

I should have taken my new camera out instead of my old camera. It could have zoom the dragonflies bigger.

There are so many dragonflies flying above the pond. I think the dragonfly is known as Acisoma panorpoides and probably a male one. Correct me if I am wrong. You can view the list of the scientific names of dragon from this website.



Sorry for the blur vision, I am using my old camera that could only zoom 3 times...argggg. Next time, I need to have two cameras in my bag...lol. I still like my old camera except it cant zoom as many times as my new camera. Been so attached to my old camera.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden Part 3

Singapore is not only a food and shopping paradise. Singapore is known as a clean and green city or Garden City. Almost every estate comes with a garden or park (big or small). Even in the city, you can find many tall trees and they are well taken care of. Next time, you are in Orchard Road Shopping, just looked at the numerous tall trees there.

Singapore is a very organised country. Even the estate are so well planned and built to ensure residents can shop in their own estate, have their own library, clinics and have good transport system (MRT and Buses) as well as a beautiful garden.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden is the bigger of the two gardens in Ang Mo Kio Town. The other garden is Ang Mo Kio East Garden. Hopefully, I can climb the hill to Ang Mo Kio East Garden if I next visit Ang Mo Kio.

This is the favourite part of Ang Mo Kio West Garden that I like. It is quiet in the garden now cause it is about noon and the hot sun is keeping people away except me..lol.

There are so many lotus plants in the pond.

I was not at the pond at the right time, cause not many lotus bloom at this time. If you enlarge the photo, you can see many lotus buds in the background. If you are lucky, you can see the pond full of lotus flowers blooming at the same time.

This place is a good place if you want to take photo of dragonflies. There are lots of them in here. Geez, I wish I brought my new camera instead of this old camera. I could have zoom better with the new camera.

A short video showing the surrounding garden.

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Note:

You can visit Ang Mo Kio Town by MRT and alight at Ang Mo Kio Station.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden is opposite Ang Mo Kio Library while Ang Mo Kio East Garden is beside the MRT Station.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden Part 2

Ang Mo Kio West Garden is bigger than the other garden in Ang Mo Kio East. I saw these beautiful steps with all the tall trees. I wondering what is on top of the hill. My head was saying go up and see but my knees said No No No...lol. As you age, you knees are not strong anymore.

There seems to be a park at the top of the hill. In the morning and evening, this place will be a favourite with joggers and many residents come here and exercise.

Ang Mo Kio West Garden - Part 1

This is the first time that I visited this garden in Ang Mo Kio Town. I think there is another garden near the Ang Mo Kio MRT Station.

The playground looked so much fun, I am sure the kids love them.

Besides the playground, there's a park beside it. I will post them another day. You can read more about the garden in here.

Almost every town in Singapore besides Ang Mo Kio, comes with playground, shops, market, etc. But normally the bigger town will have malls in them.

It makes life easier for the citizen. Actually, you dont have to own a car in Singapore, you can go anywhere very quickly by public transport or just shop in your own estate.

Ang Mo Kio is accessible by buses and you can visit the town by taking the MRT Train to Ang Mo Kio Station.

Ang Mo Kio

Singapore has many estates all over the island that are self contained. Self contained meaning, they have all the facilities inside the estate. There are malls, library, clinics, shops, market, hawker centres, etc. Residents dont have to travel all the way to the city to get their shopping done. They can just do it right at their own estate.

This is part of Ang Mo Kio. Dont be fooled by my photos. The photo might make the town looked quiet and sleepy but if you would to go to the central of Ang Mo Kio, there's where the action is.

It is more crowded and noisy in the central where most shops and malls are located.

The word "Ang Mo Kio" has many meanings. It sounded like tomatoes in Hokkien but some thought that the estate was named after bridge (Kio) and Ang Mo (Red Hair). It could be a British Engineer (probably with red hair) was responsible to built a bridge in this estate and the locals named the area Ang Mo Kio. You could read the whole story in Infopedia.

The blue building in the above photo is the library in Ang Mo Kio. But nowadays, we have smaller libraries located in the malls in newer towns, so as to encourage more to read books.

I spotted a nursery beside the library.

Sorry no photos of Ang Mo Kio Central cause I did not venture into there and I dont stay in Ang Mo Kio.