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National Orchid Garden, Singapore

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Singapore Botanical Garden is quite unique place. It is in the middle of city but still cant hear much of noise, buzz inside the compound. & National orchid garden is located inside the Botanical garden. You need to pay 5$ ticket for entry and it is normally open between 830am to 7pm. Once you buy the ticket and enter, you can either go by left or right. Normally, people go on the left hand side. If you take right hand on side, you will end up going against traffic. I am very impressed with year round care and cultivation of the 200 different plants inside the garden. Great work team and you make us to keep coming back again and again !!! While you walk along, there is a kind of circular place and it has lot of Orchid flowers... if my memory is right, it is called "Cool Place". Here, you will see a vast display of Orchids and carnivorous plants. Personally, I love staring at flowers... it gives me immense peace of mind and freshness ... a...

Meatless, fusion food at Millenia Walk

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I landed up at Elemen at Millenia Walk. My friend invited me for dinner.. glanced the portal before and saw some pics.. Liked it., so I said, lets go. But I didnt see the 8 course option till I opened the menu card !!! My friend said, you should go for the full dinner and can help with sharing some of my food - which is a no brainer for me. I ordered it. Appetiser and the bread was very good. My guess the middle portion item had sesame and it was bit sour - but not too bad. Tomato was so tasty and soft. Bread was little herbal too.  I opted for Rojak fruit salad - which was too good - pineapple and dragon fruit was mouth watering and the fried or crispy item was so tempting...  Soup - was not very hot... in fact little less than room temperature.... but had little bit of rice and pepper and very tasty. They also served Apple Cider before serving mains - like a shot drink. Hope the readers know how to drink apple cider carefully as ...

Magnificient Moscow

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The Russian capital of Moscow can be described in one word... Magnificient. Why ? It is the sheer size ... be it Red Square, metro stations, victory park or the Moskva river etc etc. I stayed at Weekend Inn Apartments at Ulitsa Pyatnitskaya ... it had a weird elevator.. but room was good and had a decent common kitchen. What i loved was the proximity to Red Square..... kind of 1 km walk and a starbucks shop on its way ! Out of the all the cathedrals you visit, Saint Basil is very unique... it is some kind of fusion architecture, colorful. It has a character and the best part... it looks same on what you saw on wall posts or videos on new channels... Red Square has lot of attractions like Lenin's Mausoleum, Kazan cathedral and Kremlin and they are all unique in its own way. Moscow's metro stations are so huge. It is like some 5 storey escalators... and superb, lavish mosaics, sculputres and stained glass art work. Do not miss visiting these fabulous metro sta...

FIFA World Cup 2018 and the stadium experience

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I went to Russia during FIFA world cup 2018 and I got two QF tickets for Brazil vs Belgium match and Russia vs Croatia match. It was a great experience of mingling with fans from so many countries and to enjoy some drink at Pubs. Stadium atmosphere was so electrifying and the chanting was at its best. Size of stadiums, the corridors, the security check was so detailed and impressive. Kazan Arena had wonderful lighting sense where as Sochi Fisht was on the oceanside and the sea breeze was so wonderful. Souvenair shops and the food options at Sochi was stunning, when compared to Kazan. Kazan was a simple city where compared to Sochi's magnificnent mountains, excellent tunnel infrastructure etc. I felt Kazan airport found it difficult to handle the volume of travellers. Unfortunate part of every major sports event is the high price of accomodation... Russia was no different. The prices were easily 4 times of normal cost but the properties were reasonably well f...

Martin Mere wetland, Lancashire

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I visited Martin Mere Wetland reserve at Lancashire in 2011. I fondly remembered the large land and walking aroud while I was scanning through old pictures and decided to write about it. Pls plan your visit -->  https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/martin-mere/plan-your-visit/ I vividly remember the nice spaces created for photographers and it was awesome to setup tripod and tracking the birds. I also recollect the cute, active  Grey crowned Crane and it was very nice to see it running here and there and never stopping. More than hundreds of birds are there inside wet lands and season details are nicely detailed out in the portal. Enjoy and support nature.

Eat out at Jim Thompson, Singapore

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We went for a dinner at Jim Thompson. It is a beautiful property at Dempsey hill, Minden road. Do I have to really say, it is a Thai restaurant ? Fabulous menu... so many options... We started conservatively with Satay and the traditional mango salad, Spring roll... & the real surprise was the pineapple rice .... wonderfully presented and tasted perfectly... I was avoiding this for a long time thinking it will be too sweet... but it wasn't !!! Ambience was so perfect and we order Salentein wine from Malbec. It turned out to be a ideal choice and the team members stuck with it for entire dinner session and we repeated the wine order. The meat was good too. either the chicken or prawns...  crew was good and caring. They have some dancers with fancy costume, nails and move around couple of times... Be prepared to spend couple of hours when you go there... great place to hang out as couples or team dinner... Bon Appetit !