Our second trip to the zoo

After Chinese class, we went to the zoo again today 🐑🦁🦒🦓 Like I mentioned in my earlier post when I first went a few weeks ago, this place is just so nice and well designed. And clean. The animals look like they’re really well taken care of; they live in huge enclosures that are very clean and well maintained; and the zoo does its fair share of contribution to the wildlife conservation efforts around the world. I really enjoy this place. We didn’t get to finish walking around the zoo, but we got through most of it, albeit rushing through some exhibitions to make sure we maximised the number of animals that we saw today. So next time I want to get there earlier and just take my time, enjoying each exhibition for as long as I wish.

My best photo from today 👍

But then the taxi ride home just turned the tables on what had otherwise been a really good day. I got car sick and we ended up just eating in, coz I was too tired to walk down the road for a cheap and quick dinner – I used up all my energy trying not to vomit 🤢 An unfortunate way to end an otherwise fun day.

Animals, animals and more animals

My friends from Sydney and I went to Singapore Zoo today. It’s out in the sticks, but it is so totally worth the effort to go out there. The zoo is really well designed, with large enclosures for the animals, and lots of trees to help keep the place relatively cool for visitors. It’s clean, and the animals and their homes are also in immaculate condition. We didn’t get to visit all the animals today, but what we did see was very impressive.

We also decided to go to the River Safari next door. In contrast to the zoo, this place is very peaceful, with a boardwalk essentially lining the outskirts of the inlet. But the highlight of this place are the pandas! They are just the cutest! They have two giant black and white pandas named Kai Kai and Jia Jia, and these guys are totally worth a visit. There are other animals here, of course, but these giant pandas were definitely the highlight for me.

Jia Jia demolishing this piece of bamboo!

And then we finished the day joining N for dinner at Food Opera at ION Orchard, one of the food courts down on basement level 4 (yes, the malls have multiple basement levels, if you haven’t had the pleasure of walking through the rabbit warrens of the Orchard Road malls 😂).

I became a Friend of Wildlife today 😊 Amongst other things, I get unlimited entry into the four wildlife parks for one year. Since I was going into at least three of them with my friends who are here this week, and then I’ll probably go again when another friend visits next month, I would’ve already saved on entry costs just with these two visits. And then if I want to go again sometime during the year, then I can do that too. It could be my new Gardens by the Bay 😊 But let’s not be too hasty and dethroning Gardens just yet… 😉

I am now a Friend of Wildlife 😊 

So it was a fun but draining day, spending most of it outdoors in the SG heat🌞