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I’ve sent several people postcards with photos that look like this. They were too good to pass up even though I had no idea what that was.

It turns out they are ‘The Supertrees’, sculptures amongst the landscaping at a new tourist attraction called ‘Gardens by the Bay‘.

The supertrees don’t look like much up close, and we didn’t actually see very much of the garden due to the inescapable allure of domes. And, what domes they were!

The first dome had a cloud forest climate, very cool and misty. There were several elevated walkways and a lot of crazy landscaping, but the thing that most caught my eye were the many bog plants — pitchers, flytraps, orchids, all kinds of alien-looking things.

The second dome (‘the Flower Dome’) did not have many flowers. Better, lots of cactus and (for some reason) a whole lot of baobab trees, painstakingly transplanted from Senegal.

Japanese competitive food courts and Singapore seem like a match made in heaven.

This place had seven or eight different ramen stalls, with posted rankings here and there. I have no idea if there is actual judging happening or if it’s just an elaborate marketing ruse… but in any case I did just eat one of my favorite bowls of ramen ever.

I had no choice but to order the King Of God ramen. It was everything they promised! But unfinishable.

This exhibit has a lot of skeletons of early reptiles and mammals that predate dinosaurs, great-looking things that I’d never seen or thought of before. The lighting here is very strange — often a spotlight is shining directly in my face so that I can’t read a plaque without squinting… but, such plaques! Lots of alliteration, and each specimen has an ‘about to eat a schoolgirl’ illustration provided for scale.