In keeping with its reputation as the "Garden City", Singapore is awash with lush gardens and parklands as tropical greenery carpets the landscape. Innumerable trees and flowering shrubs line the expressways and colourful plants hang from balconies and overhead bridges.

The Singapore Botanic Gardens epitomises the tropical island's luxuriant parks - a combination of primary jungle and elegantly laid out flowerbeds and shrubs. Spread over 52 hectares, the gardens hold over half a million species of plant life, many rare specimens amongst them.

Singapore is one of only two cities in the world to have a significant area of primary rainforest within its boundaries. The 164-hectare Bukit Timah Nature Reserve - just 12 kilometres from the city centre - contains more species of flora than the entire North American continent.

There are dozens of other gardens and reserves in Singapore, among them the Chinese and Japanese Gardens and Sungei Buloh Nature Park, Singapore's first designated wetland nature reserve and a major stopping-off point for migrating birds during the months from September to March.

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve  |  Chinese & Japanese Gardens  |  East Coast Park  |  Fort Canning Park  |  MacRitchie, Peirce & Seletar Reservoirs  |  Mandai Orchid Gardens  |  Marina City Park  |  Mount Faber  |  Pasir Ris Park  |  Singapore Botanic Gardens |  Sungei Buloh