DAY 1 | THU 2 JUL (D)

Home to Singapore

Your Ross Tour Leader Angie Thomas will meet you at Sydney International Airport for your Qantas flight, or meet in Singapore. Check into our hotel, Parkroyal Collection  Pickering, with its world-class sky gardens, our luxurious home for the next five nights. 

Celebrate our arrival in the tropics with a Welcome Dinner at the hotel.

Accommodation: Parkroyal Collection Pickering, Singapore

DAY 2 | FRI 3 JUL (B/AT)

Gardens by the Bay

After taking our time with the famous multicultural Parkroyal Collection Pickering smorgasbord of breakfasts, our adventure begins at the stunning Gardens by the Bay. You’ll be amazed by this visionary 250 acre, $1 billion project. It brings to life the government’s ambition to make Singapore a ‘City in a Garden’. 

Housed within the gardens are cooled conservatories, individual themed gardens, lakes, bridges and the showpiece: Supertrees, plant covered structures up to 50m tall. From the OCBC Skyway, a walkway that connects two 50m tall Supertrees, we will get a good overview of the extent of the project. Then onto the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest. 

Explore vast horticultural worlds growing in gigantic biomes, engineering feats in themselves, being the biggest column-less glasshouses in the world. It’s eternally spring in the Flower Dome, with plant displays from dry climates found in South Africa, California, southern Spain, Italy, and southwestern Australia. We will enjoy the cool rush of a waterfall within the Cloud Forest and discover plumes of tropical flowers such as vireya, begonia and medinilla spilling out of the verdant mountain crevices. 

An absolute treat this afternoon – High Tea at the famous Raffles Hotel.

Accommodation: Parkroyal Collection Pickering, Singapore

DAY 3 | SAT 4 JUL (B/L)

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Today’s highlight is the UNESCO listed Singapore Botanic Gardens. The tropical rainforest here is one of the few pockets of original jungle left on the island. Singapore is famous for orchids and they have been a part of the Gardens collection since its beginnings in 1859. Early directors commissioned extensive orchid collecting expeditions and since 1995 the collection has its own beautifully landscaped home – the National Orchid Garden.

We’ll have lunch at one of the loveliest restaurants surrounded by the orchid and heliconia gardens. 

Afternoon at leisure until it cools a little, when we’ll jump onto a bumboat for a cruise along the Singapore River. These hardy vessels were once used to shuttle cargo in one of the East’s busiest

trade centres. We’ll be delivered into the middle of the vibrant modern skyline of Singapore. You’ll discover the restaurant strip to sample the cuisine Singapore is famous for.

Accommodation: Parkroyal Collection Pickering, Singapore

DAY 4 | SUN 5 JUL (B/L)

Spice Garden

Explore Singapore’s past, present and future today. To walk into Singapore’s past we visit the Spice Garden, once the site of Singapore’s first Botanical and Experimental Garden set up by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1822. 

Across the road the National Museum of Singapore is next, paying homage to Singapore’s history, culture and geography. The grand neoclassic 19th century building was once Raffles’ museum and library.

Lunch is included today at an award winning restaurant. After lunch we’re off to a futuristic forest surrounded by towering highrise located in the financial district on a 360-hectare expanse of reclaimed land.

Accommodation: Parkroyal Collection Pickering, Singapore

DAY 5 | MON 6 JUL (B/D)

Singapore Garden Festival

Spend the morning exploring world class tropical garden design and floral arrangements at one of the world’s largest garden shows, the Singapore Garden Festival. 

Afternoon guided walking tour of Singapore’s famous Chinatown. It’s a vibrant marketplace, a feast of fascinating vegetables, exotic fruits and seafood, whilst getting an understanding of the importance of the Chinese community and tasting treats along the way. 

Back to the hotel for an afternoon at leisure. Return to Gardens by the Bay for our Farewell Dinner housed within the Flower Dome. Then we’ll be dazzled by the Garden Rhapsody light

and sound show under the Supertrees.

Accommodation: Parkroyal Collection Pickering, Singapore

DAY 6 | TUE 7 JUL (B)

Singapore to Home

We’ve included a late check-out today.

Morning visit to the Chinese and Japanese Gardens. Originally built in the mid-1970s both gardens, along with Lakeside Garden, make up the 90 hectares of Jurong Lake Gardens – Singapore’s first national garden in the heartland. 

Return to the hotel for an afternoon at leisure, shopping or relaxing. Late afternoon transfer to Changi Airport for our evening flight.

DAY 7 | WED 8 JUL

Arrive Home