Night Safari in Singapore

After an otherwise rather relaxing day today we went onto the night safari in the Singapore Zoo tonight (and thought we'd do a quick update about it straight away while our 24 hrs internet access is still valid).



The night safari here at Singapore Zoo was the first of its kind in the world (...and quite a clever Marketing idea on how to extend the zoo opening hours, to be honest).

And so it was us and (what felt like) pretty much half of Asia tonight battling it out for the best seats / views.

First up was a 30 minute show about "creatures in the night" in an amphitheater.



The highlight was when it was revealed that all through the show there had been a rather big alive snake hidden under some of the audience seats (see photo above) - fortunately not close to where we sat. Apart from this we were reminded (approx. 20 times) not to take any photos with flash photography, which kind of explains the quality of the photos that go with this blog entry.



The main attraction of the night safari is a tram that takes you through the zoo on an approx. 45 minutes drive. You don't see any fences, most of the separation from the animals is achieved through water or other obstacles. So you do really get quite close to the animals. Through a rather whispered live commentary they do manage to add quite a lot of suspense (...ah, and did I mention, no flash photography allowed.) We got to see elephants, lions, tigers, rhinos, hippos, buffalos, tapirs and all sorts of deer.

Here is a little quiz: Can you match the following three photos to these 3 animals: elephant, lion and rhino?! (And trust me, these are the best photos, you wouldn't want to see the others we took or rather thought we took...)







Well done on the quiz!!!

Anyways, 3 hours and 150 Singapore Dollars later we are all safely back in the hotel and the kids are already asleep. No doubt, dreaming about "giant snakes hidden under seats"...