Japanese Garden, Singapore
by The whole of Singapore island is urban++. There are sky-scraping apartment buildings everywhere. There are also parks and green patches that help break up the concrete jungle. Jurong Lake is a freshwater reservoir in the western part of the island. Surrounding the lake are the Chinese Gardens and the Japanese Gardens. Both are delights to visit. Ray and I took Drake to the turtle and tortoise farm in the Chinese Garden last month. It was a very interesting exhibit and the rest of the gardens were great, too. That large tortoise with Drake was just walking around, greeting the visitors. …