Destination Singapore

Botanic Gardens

The Botanic Gardens is the only botanic garden in the world that opens from 5 a.m. to 12 midnight every single day of the year, and does not charge an admission fee, except for the National Orchid Garden. The first “Botanical and Experimental Garden” in Singapore was established in 1822 on Government Hill by Sir Stamford Raffles who was a keen naturalist. The garden’s original main task was to evaluate for cultivation, crops of potential economic importance, including those yielding fruits, vegetables, spices and other raw materials. The present gardens have an abundance of horticultural themes and attractions, prominent of which is the National Orchid Garden; a hilly three-hectare site which has a collection of more than 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids of orchids.