Saturday, April 28, 2012

Visit to Merlion Park in Singapore



Everyone recognizes that Merlion Park is a popular tourist attraction and it took its place among the famous landmarks of great cities of the world. We’re told that no visit to Singapore would be complete without photo sessions at the the park ilncluding the beautiful Marlion statue and the surrounding infrastructures like the Bay Sands Hotel,Sky scrapers on the the opposite side and the Singapore Flyer from afar or else you never have been to SG.We all went there late in the morning and while it was very hot and humid we found it not so much a park but a paved area overlooking the harbor with a statue in the middle that’s perpetually spewing water into Marina Bay. It doesn't offer much, apart from the merlion figure itself. Nonetheless, to catch sight of the awesomeness of the famed statue ( a mythical creature with a lion’s head and the body of a fish) can be worth a visit only if we can appreciate what is behind the figure and make out its history and origin .



The Ruales - Grana Family

The Merlion statue perpetually spewing water into Marina Bay. Adjacent to the Merlion Park is One Fullerton ,a  water front development blessed with stunning vistas of the Singapore Harbor and its surrounding modern structures




Views of  Singapore Harbor Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Lotus -Shaped Singapore Art Science Museum from the Merlion  Park






In the background  are the Singapoe Flyer, Lotus-Shaped  Singapore Museum and the Marina Bay Sands Hotel

In the background is the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay

The 340m-long SkyPark with a capacity of 3,900 people and a 150m Infinity swimming pool set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which overhangs the north tower 






The Esplanade Theatres on the Bay