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Get up close and personal to wild animals at night. Next door to Singapore Zoo and well worth the trip to Singapore’s northern reaches, this wildlife park is only open in the evenings (7:30pm-midnight). It’s a wonderfully eerie experience – wandering the footpaths and bridges of the fragrant nighttime jungle and seeing the 120 species of nocturnal creatures close up: tigers, fishing cats, and alligators, to name a few. Electric trams run the perimeter, stopping in several places; it’s worth taking one for the guided tour that’s an excellent introduction to the park. Along the way you may spot some of the antelopes that roam free outside the other animal enclosures. The 20-minute Creatures of the Night show, held 3-4 times nightly, is a big hit with kids, and one of the highlights of the Night Safari is a stroll through the fruit bat enclosure, where you may find yourself face to face with a giant fruitbat, hanging upside down inches from your face and tucking into a chunk of fruit. No flash photography is allowed in the park.
Nearest transport: Ang Mo Kio MRT, then bus #138.
One of the world’s best zoos. Spread across 28 lush hectares on a peninsula in the Upper Seletar Reservoir, the Singapore Zoo is beautifully designed, with globe-spanning wildlife roaming large, natural habitat-like enclosures. The Great Rift Valley (complete with a cliff-cascading waterfall) is home to Nubian ibexes, baboons and mongooses, while in the Fragile Forest biodome you can climb up to the forest canopy to check out two-toed sloths and to spot lemurs and flying foxes. Denizens of the Frozen Tundra include polar bears, wolverines and raccoons, while Primate Kingdom is where you’ll spot all sorts of monkeys – from the colobus to the crested macaque – and get a good look at the zoo’s orangutans during the daily 11am and 3:30pm feeding sessions. Head for Wild Africa and Cat Country to see lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and zebras and to the Forest Lodge to spot the rare white tiger. The Rainforest Kidzworld is great for younger kids, with pony rides and a wet play zone with waterslides. A tram looping through the park gives your tired feet a break.
Nearest transport: Ang Mo Kio metro, then bus #138.
Futuristic botanical gardens with Supertrees and biodomes. Across a pedestrian walkway from the Marina is one of Singapore’s most remarkable green spaces, created on 101 hectares of reclaimed land. Enormous biodomes rise out of the greenery, housing over 800 species of plants from different climate zones. There’s giant cacti in the Desert Dome, a waterfall cascades from a 35m mountain in the Cloud Forest Dome, while the Flower Dome recreates a Mediterranean climate, complete with an ancient olive grove. Dotted around the Gardens are different whimsical sculptures, including Planet by Mark Quinn – a giant sleeping baby that seems to hover in mid-air. Rising above the gardens are 18 Supertrees that look like something out of Avatar, particularly when they’re lit up as part of the Garden Rhapsody sound-and-light spectacular every night (7:45-8:45pm). You can take the OCBC Skyway walk, 22m above the Gardens, that connects six of the Supertrees.
Nearest transport: Bayfront MRT.
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Take a Night Safari
Nearest transport: Ang Mo Kio MRT, then bus #138.
Day out at Singapore Zoo
One of the world’s best zoos. Spread across 28 lush hectares on a peninsula in the Upper Seletar Reservoir, the Singapore Zoo is beautifully designed, with globe-spanning wildlife roaming large, natural habitat-like enclosures. The Great Rift Valley (complete with a cliff-cascading waterfall) is home to Nubian ibexes, baboons and mongooses, while in the Fragile Forest biodome you can climb up to the forest canopy to check out two-toed sloths and to spot lemurs and flying foxes. Denizens of the Frozen Tundra include polar bears, wolverines and raccoons, while Primate Kingdom is where you’ll spot all sorts of monkeys – from the colobus to the crested macaque – and get a good look at the zoo’s orangutans during the daily 11am and 3:30pm feeding sessions. Head for Wild Africa and Cat Country to see lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and zebras and to the Forest Lodge to spot the rare white tiger. The Rainforest Kidzworld is great for younger kids, with pony rides and a wet play zone with waterslides. A tram looping through the park gives your tired feet a break.
Nearest transport: Ang Mo Kio metro, then bus #138.
Wander around Gardens by the Bay
Futuristic botanical gardens with Supertrees and biodomes. Across a pedestrian walkway from the Marina is one of Singapore’s most remarkable green spaces, created on 101 hectares of reclaimed land. Enormous biodomes rise out of the greenery, housing over 800 species of plants from different climate zones. There’s giant cacti in the Desert Dome, a waterfall cascades from a 35m mountain in the Cloud Forest Dome, while the Flower Dome recreates a Mediterranean climate, complete with an ancient olive grove. Dotted around the Gardens are different whimsical sculptures, including Planet by Mark Quinn – a giant sleeping baby that seems to hover in mid-air. Rising above the gardens are 18 Supertrees that look like something out of Avatar, particularly when they’re lit up as part of the Garden Rhapsody sound-and-light spectacular every night (7:45-8:45pm). You can take the OCBC Skyway walk, 22m above the Gardens, that connects six of the Supertrees.
Nearest transport: Bayfront MRT.
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