Nature & Parks Tours in Singapore

Roughly half of Singapore is under green cover, and almost none of it is accidental. The island has been planned as a garden city since 1967, which is why a nature tour here looks nothing like a nature tour anywhere else in Southeast Asia: you walk from a metro station into a conserved rainforest fragment, or from a shopping district into a cooled conservatory holding plants from the Mediterranean and the tropical highlands.

Our two nature tours cover the pair of sites that define that story. Gardens by the Bay is the engineered version — 101 hectares of reclaimed land, the Supertree Grove, and the Cloud Forest with its 35-metre indoor waterfall. The Singapore Botanic Gardens is the historical one: 160 years old, the first tropical garden inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and home to the National Orchid Garden and a surviving patch of primary rainforest.

Both are walking tours at an unhurried pace, with plenty of stops in the shade. Guides are STB-licensed and carry the horticultural background to explain what you are actually looking at — why the Supertrees vent heat from the biomass boilers, or how the Vanda Miss Joaquim became a national flower.