I'm glad I took time to visit the Cloud Forest at the Gardens by the Bay, one of the latest tourist attractions to hit Singapore. This glass dome is an engineering marvel--the cold doesn't feel like air-conditioning, but comes across more like refrigeration, and the even cool temperature makes you feel that you are actually wandering atop a mountain forest!
The Cloud Walk makes you feel like you are suspended in mid-air. Even though I don't have a big fear of heights, I looked down and still started feeling woozy!
It's a man-made forest in the middle of the concrete jungle. If you think about the cost of the whole complex (reportedly to the tune of S$1 Billion), you would wonder if the project made business sense at all! After some thinking, I figured that while the project itself may be heavily subsidized by the government, tourist attractions like these assure a steady stream of visitors to the city-state, and that alone makes it a worthwhile endeavor.
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