--1st stop: Bishan Park--
My first visit to this popular park in the heartlands. There are some renovation works in the park and they are bringing Kallang river alive here.
Super clear water~
Found the lotus pond, but did not manage to see any lotus flower.
My first shot of Damselfly! There are so many of them~!
2 Damselflies mating.
Some kind of water bug.
Lotus bud.
Lotus seed cup.
Playground.
Banyan Tree.
Cleansing Biotope area.
Pond.
Finally got to see some dragonflies...
--2nd stop: Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West--
Another town garden which is just minutes away from Bishan.
Perhaps the stairs are the most famous sight in this park.
--3rd stop: The Japanese Cemetery Park--
Thanks to KH's reminder. We finally visited this place!!
It is the largest Japanese cemetery in South East Asia at 29,359 square metres, consisting of 910 tombstones that contain the remains of members of the Japanese community in Singapore, including young Japanese prostitutes, civilians, soldiers and convicted war criminals executed at Changi Prison in Singapore. (credits: Wikipedia)
Hinamoto Guardian Deity.
A Japanese brothel owner, Tagajiro Fukaki, donated 7 acres (28,000 m2) of his rubber plantation to be used as a burial ground for young Japanese women who died in destitution. The British Colonial Government officially granted permission for this use on 26 June 1891. Since then, it was used to bury Japanese residents. During the Second World War, the cemetery was used to bury civilians and soldiers who lost their lives in the battlefield or to illness. (credits: Wikipedia)
Prayer hall.
Japanese War Memorial.
Names of individual and corporate donors.
One of the 2 tombs with English inscription.
This is the 2nd tomb with English inscription.
A Taiwanese tomb.
Back of the tomb shows where the deceased came from. Written in Japanese kanji.
Field Marshal Count Terauchi Hisaichi's tomb.
War memorials...
Memorial of 10,000 soldiers...
