More Singapore Photos

A few more pictures to add from my last few days in Singapore. The first is the one I promised before ... this shows Depot Road lined on both sides with the rainforest trees that spread out into a canopy over the roads. You can also see the epiphytes growing along the trunks. I was amazed by the similarities between the rainforests in Southeast Asia and in Central America. The next picture shows another example ... Belize friends ... look familiar? There were several species of tree in Singapore, at the MacRitchie Reservoir reserve where we hiked, that had spiny defenses similar to the escoba and baial (spelling?). Fortunately, I survived this encounter well enough (yes ... I've had issues with these before!). The third picture shows the species of monkey we saw there ... the macaque. They're small, and quite used to humans. Several of them came up to us on the path and seemed to be both hoping for food and posing for us (we all had cameras out). Even this one was almost within arm's reach. But here, on the other side, was what seemed to be a family of sorts: a couple adults, several young ones (really cute!), and an alpha male sitting over the path; they seemed unnerved by our presence around the little ones, so we stopped taking pictures and moved on. Next is a shot of the jungle from the top of a 5-level observation tower; you can see some of the city in the far background. And last is a picture I took out of the window at the Hong Kong airport, showing the mountains of Lantai Island (I think), with the tail of a Cathay Pacific plane in the foreground (the airline I flew).