Singapore Night Safari

It was a busy weekend exploring Singapore.  We managed to get quite a few sights in despite my inability to cope with the heat! 

Singapore has the world's first Night Safari - a safari park for nocturnal animals.  You can ride around on the tram and also walk along the trails after dark - the park doesn't open until 7pm daily - and view the animals awake and alert.  I think they use electrical fences as there were no high fences around the habitats and in fact in a couple of cases there were animals right beside the road and the tram had to slow down.  We just about took out a Tapir!  It was hard to take pictures as there is no flash photography - despite the warning in multiple languages some people didn't get it!  This picture is copied from the Night Safari website of the tapirs that we got up close and personal with.

I did manage to take some pictures of the Thumbuakor Performance - a fire show.  Pretty impressive!

The evening started out with a Creatures of the Night Show - the first two animal to come out were a raccoon and an otter.  Needless to say Terry had something to say about coming around the world to see animals that he could see either dumping our garbage over or making a mess on our boat!  Despite that,  the Night Safari is definitely worth going to - it's a bit of a trek from "downtown" Singapore, but absolutely worth the effort.  Terry and decided not to take a taxi getting there and managed to find our way on the East-West (green) MRT line, the North-South (red) MRT line, the Bukit Panjong LRT line and then finally a cab.  By this point we had no idea where we were and locals weren't sure which way the zoo was so we opted for the cab.  Coming home it was a cab ride to the MRT - too late and too dark and we were too tired to continue the adventure.

More to come!
Melva