Today is the last day of school holiday. My family decided at the last minute that we would go for a family advantage to the night safari.
The Singapore Night safari is the world's first wildlife park occupying a land area of 40 hectares of dense secondary forest. This park opens at night from 6.00pm to 12.00 midnight. Here, you will find over 900 nocturnal animals of 130 species.
The Singapore Night Safari has been a six times winner of the Singapore's Tourism Awards' Leisure Attraction of the Year and is very popular with tourists.
We arrived here shortly after 7pm, just in time for the Borneo's Thumbuakar Tribal dance. It was an interesting demonstration of the pipeblowing skill as well as their fire eating performances. My older boy Xuan was thrilled as he watched those tribal men blowing fires into the air. After dinner at the Bongo Burgers restaurant. The sky was completely dark.
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We first went to the Amphitheatre to watch the 'Creatures of the Night Show'at 8.00pm. It was a 30 mins performance by the nocturnal creatures like raccoons, owls, wolves, servals, binturongs and otters. We were reminded times and again not to use flashes as that would frighten the animals. The host was very entertaining and interactive and brought lots of laughter to everyone.
After the show, we embarked on our night advanture on foot (tram option was available). We first took the Forest Giant walking trails (one of the three walking trails) which was a spooky mangrow walk along the dense forest where crickets sounds could be heard clearly everywhere. We crossed a suspension bridge into the East loop. There was no moonlight and the paths were very dark .... but it was wonderful and exciting for the kids as the darkness added a sense of mystery to the air with faint afican drum beats heard from the distance (well, it was the pipe-in music :)).
Xuan kept pastering his dad for the small pocket torch light and he yielded finally. The torch light was helpful for certain stretch of the trail which could be very dark with little or no light at all.
We covered the first trail in about 20 mins and spotted animals like Babirusas, Bearded pigs, Bongos, Hyenas, servals along the way.
Second walking trail we took was the Leopard trails which led us to the Giant flying squirrel enclosure, territory of the Tarsiers, pocupines, Leopards, owls and the mangrove bats. Many of the bats were low hanging and my husband almost run into two of them. Although bats are harmless, the sign says that they will bite if provoked. So that was a close shave :)
At times, it was difficult to spot some of the animals when they blend nicely in the dark or hide behind rocks/trees/bushes.
The last trail we took was the Fishing Cat Trail where more species of leopards were showcased. We saw Barking deers, Himalyan Tahr, Binturong, fishing cat, mousedeer and indian Aharial (crocodile) just to name a few.
By 10.15pm, we only managed to cover about 60% of the animals. However, the kids were too tired to continue, so we had to call it a day and left the rest of the animals to perhaps the next visit.
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