Balestier Heritage Trail- Zhongshan Park

It was nice taking a stroll in Balestier, one can discover past history of Singapore. You can read my old posts on my past visits to Balestier.

You can find more information from the plaque infront of the Zhongshan park.

As part of the overall master plan to integrate the adjacent Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall within the project, an area covering 4,624sqm has been dedicated as a public park, called “Zhongshan park”, in honour of Dr Sun Yat Sen (the founding father of the Republic of China). source

There are hotels, restaurants, etc beside the park. Was surprised to find the park so beautiful.

Family enjoy day out at the park.

Next post on Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall.

Youth Olympic Park

This is Singapore first art park known as Youth Olympic Park. The park was built and named in commemoration of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games hosted by Singapore in August 2010.

Little niece was busy taking photos of all the arts by school children. Bought her a new camera yet she is so used to using her handphone camera, I think I gonna take back the camera from her lol.



Also in the park was this landscaped maze. I think the children would like to play in here only in the evening when weather is not so hot.

Lots of sculptures with sports theme in here.

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.

Hort Park 14 (Final Posting) - Passion Fruit

This is so beautiful. This is the flower of the passion fruit. It looked like a plastic flower.

Hort Park 13 - Water Lily

Saw these beautiful water lilies in the lake in Hort Park. They make good photographic subjects.

Too bad the lotus flowers have not bloom yet.

Pink Saturday - Hort Park 12 - Cute Flowers

I saw so many tiny flowers growing on the ground in Hort Park but not sure of their names.

They are so tiny and so cute and pretty.

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Skywatch Friday - Hort Park 11 - Wild Plants

Skywatch today is still at Hort Park. I took this photo of the plant by squatting down and looking up....lol.

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Hort Park 9 - Plants for Sale

These flowers are so beautiful and they dont cost much.

I love the purple flowers and sad to say I did not purchased them cause I know they would die on reaching home cause I was going somewhere else after this Hort Park's trip.

My World Tuesday - Hort Park 8 - Plant Plus

This is a lovely place to get all your gardening stuff and plants.
Oh I love this photo of the pitcher plant. My little niece took some photos of it too and I began my science lessons with her by telling her all about the pitcher plant...lol.

All these pitcher plants are for sale.


More plants for sale.

Bonsai Plants

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