I Found This Cloud Forest.

It's officially February and time is marching along much too quickly for my liking. The months here melt together, seamlessly folding in to each other — indiscernible due to the lack of seasons. Unless you can count a thick blanket of humidity and daily deluge as a season. It's forever summer in Singapore, meaning Mondays and Fridays and Wednesdays and Saturdays are broken up by the same daily rituals...it makes time go by lots faster. Maybe I should start designating certain days as "avocado shake days" or "wet market shopping for dragonfruit" days...just kidding, that would limit my avocado shake obsession to be a weekly thing, and I just don't want to live my life like that. Since February has shown no signs of slowing down, these whirlwind weeks have been concentrated on slowly crossing off my Singapore to-do list and stumbling on even more treasures. My "foods to eat in Singapore" list is gaining more additions than I think I can fit in before April. To fully appreciate February here,  I spent hours in this bookstore sipping avocado shakes and reading cookbooks about Icelandic cuisine and the food in China and afternoons were wasted away eating coconut jelly, poolside.

But on thing that I'd been waiting months to do was visit Singapore's Cloud Dome. I'd heard good things about this place but always seemed to get distracted by the allure of something else. "You've got time" I'd think to myself and I penciled into this so-called cloud forest to yet another weekend in my future. But February was soon halfway over and I could excuse it no more. I like the Marina Bay Gardens area — Not so much the glitzy Louis Vuitton front, but the overlapping botany you can get lost in, only looking up to see alien trees above your head and a lit up ribcage-like structure on your left — the Cloud Dome. A ticket got me inside where the the blast of arctic air conditioning wasn't nearly as surprising as the thundering waterfall ten steps in front of me. A towering mountain wrapped thick with vegetation is encapsulated in to a glass dome where suspended platforms jut out from the side of said mountain, with meandering pathways on the ground level....All inside this glass structure.

Orchards and vines, leafy greens and carpets of undulating moss clung to the side of this massive mountain and only unfolded into more complex gardens as you went up by level. One section was constructed out of Legos, while another had a beautiful lily reflecting pool. Be sure to catch the misting times — opaque clouds swirl around the mountain and add an eerie glow to the waved platforms. It definitely earn it's "Singapore's Must Do" title — especially if you end the evening watching the light show at those alien trees and walking down the food street just down from the Double Helix Bridge. I got 2 iced Milos, and drank them both before I even reached the bus stop, so yes. I was happy...although 3 I think would have made me extra happy.