Today we spent the day looking around Singapore, not very interesting, and booking our night safari for this evening. Singapore is a lot like the other countries we have been to recently, except there isn’t a lot there. Mostly the area we were in was high rise flat blocks and restaurants. The restaurants were mostly Asian style or Chinese style but there were also a few Indian ones so we treated ourselves to Dosas. After a lot of bus journeying and some train journey we got to the zoo area and were able to buy our combined zoo and safari ticket. I really wanted to see this zoo after the horrible one in Suzhou. Apparently the Singapore zoo is more of a conservation project than a zoo and most of the animals are loose.
We decided we needed a quick shower and change at the hotel so we got a cab back to the correct area and were glad to find it didn’t cost too much, sadly after the shower and rest we decided to get the train most of the way then a cab – and it cost more! Taxi drivers the world over are doing us out of our money it seems, then again the guy was obviously Chinese so maybe it’s just a tactic of Chinese taxi drivers to go round in circles for ages hoping you won’t notice, to rack up the fare.
The night safari was wonderful although it was impossible to take pictures as you couldn’t use a flash, not that the request for flashes to be turned off was adhered to by all, the nice tour guide in the little safari train did threaten to stop the tour a few times because of it. We saw wolves, giraffes – who apparently only sleep for an hour or two at most so are awake at night too – zebras and loads more. It wasn’t very clear as it was very dark but it was obvious that the place was set up for the animals and you had to take your chances as to whether you’d see them or not as they had loads of space and weren’t lit except by some very dim bulbs by the giraffes.
We went home from this feeling like we had been on an adventure and couldn’t wait to go to the zoo tomorrow.