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Just visited the Singapore Zoo (opened on 27 June 1973 with total land area of 28 hectares) on a Sunday noon. Yes, I got free tickets as well so did not visit the tickets counter. 😛

For more information on tickets, please visit Singapore Zoo official website. The day’s weather was pretty bad – it was raining and sunny at one point or another. Made it really difficult to roam around as well as taking photos.

Ah Meng Kopi at the entrance where you can grab some snacks – coffee, tea, toast, eggs, etc. Ben & Jerry’s, KFC, Pizzafari can also be found at the entrance area too!

Went in through the entrance and went straight to check out the map of Singapore Zoo as well as the animal shows timing. By the way, you will be also given a hand-held map when you go through the entrance.

Despite the weather conditions, there was still quite a crowd visiting the Singapore Zoo. 🙂

First up – Otters.

Babirusa.

Typical open-concept landscape that you will see in Singapore Zoo. Either you can walk around or go on Wild Discovery Tour, Tram Ride or Boat Ride where various tickets prices applies.

Beautiful landscape at Singapore Zoo. Made me feel that I am not in Singapore. 🙂

Hamadryas Baboons at “The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia”.

An exhibit of a typical landscape that you will see in Ethiopia. If I remembered correctly, the above huts are used for grain storage.

African Spurred Tortoise having a humping good time!

Elephants of Asia – Seats are available for you to view the “Elephants at Work and Play” show.

Two playful elephants having a splash at the water and also to cool down from the hot weather.

“Rainforest Fights Back” show at the Shaw Foundation Amphitheatre.

Elephant rides at S$8 for each adult/children. Other rides such as wild animal carousel, horse carriage, pony are available as well.

Some ice for you at Ben & Jerry’s. Food also available at this area too!

An Meng Restaurant – which was themed after the beloved celebrity orang utan, Ah Meng. You can also attend the award winning programme “Jungle Breakfast with Wildlife”, where you can have breakfast with orang utans, elephants and snake. The programme runs daily from 9.00am to 10.30am.

One of the 3 white tigers we have in Singapore Zoo. The 3 white tigers are named – Omar, Winnie and Jippie.

Giant Tortoise are known for their long life, with average lifespan of 100 years or more.

Female Nyala.

Thanks for looking although I didn’t take much photos due to the rain. Anyway, Singapore Zoo offers more that what I have posted as it contain 315 species (16% of which are threatened species) and the total number of specimens is 2530. Also, Singapore Zoo also gets around 1.5 million visitors per year! So do consider to visit if you are in Singapore!

Photos on this blog post are taken on Panasonic DMC-LX3K 10.1MP Digital Camera and Canon EOS 400D Camera (aka Digital Rebel XTi).

Jurong Birk Park Singapore

Woohoo! Here I am with free tickets to the Jurong Birk Park (裕廊飞禽公园). Pretty excited as I haven’t been here in ages and it’s nice to be able to explore it again. With around 8000 birds from 600 species, Jurong Birk Park had established itself as one of the world’s best in conservation and display of birds in the natural setting. For more reading on information and pricing, you may want to visit Jurong Birk Park website. ^_^

Even though we had free tickets, we were still given the above discount vouchers to be used some of the participating outlets on the same day of visit. Off to explore then!

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex).

Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina). Think it’s staring at me!

Saddle-Billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis).

One of the many exhibits – African Wetlands that was inspired by St. Lucia Wetlands, South Africa. Get transported into a world of African birds amidst a body of water and three native-style pavilions outlined with tall palms and green ferns. The Shoebill, Black Crowned Crane, Saddle-Billed Stork are some of the many unique birds that you can see here.

You can also take the fully air-conditioned Panorail Ride that travels in a loop to 3 stations (Main station, Lory Station and Waterfall station) if you don’t want to cover Jurong Bird Park by foot. A single trip on the Panorail will cost S$5.00 for an adult ticket, and S$2.50 for each child. The above shows Lory Station.

At 3,000 sq.m and with 1,000 free-flying lories, the Lory Loft is the Bird Park’s fourth walk-in flight aviary and the world’s largest Lory Flight Aviary!

Upon stepping into Lory Loft, the pleasantly strong aroma of Dimbulah Coffee will greet you. I had a Ice Mocha here at S$4.90 (after using the S$1 discount voucher).

Walk past Dimbulah Coffee, visitors will have the opportunity to feed the birds by hand at the 9-storey high two-tiered central feeding tower.

Colourful, noisy and exceptionally bold—Lories and Lorikeets are great fun to watch.

Walking on the suspended bridges, with the rich red, yellow, green and blue feathered Lories flying around. Nice experience!

Bird Discovery Centre – where you can learn about interesting avian facts.

The Riverine is a simulated freshwater river habitat featuring various species of waterfowl, fishes and turtles. It gives visitors an intimate underwater view of more than 20 duck species, through an 11 metre wide glass-viewing gallery.

Terrace Kiosk – You can also make use of the discount voucher here. They sell Vegetarian Nasi Briyani and Singapore Hainainese Chicken Rice too! 🙂

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream for the hot day!

Near the entrance/exit, you can have up-close photos of you taken together with parrots too!

Signs detailing the attractions and exhibit are abundant all around Jurong Birk Park.

Penguin Expedition – Occupying 1,630 square metres, Penguin Expedition is home to endearing penguins. The five species on exhibit are the Humboldt, the Rockhopper, the Macaroni, the Fairy and the majestic King Penguin.

Made ourselves comfortable at the Pools Amphitheatre at around 3.45pm to catch the 4pm Kings of the Skies (Birds of Prey Show). Please do take note of the show timings if you are coming to Jurong Bird Park. Oh yes, the feeding times as well.

The emcee handling a Bald Eagle at the Kings of the Skies (Birds of Prey Show) show!

An invited audience holding an Owl. Was concentrating on taking photos so didn’t catch the owl name. 😛

Bongo Burgers – offering burgers and other western delicacies.

Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber).

Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae).

Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria).

Bar-pouched Wreathed Hornbill (Rhyticeros undulatus).

African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer).

White-bellied Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster).

Black Kite (Milvus migrans).

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

Ostrich (Struthio camelus) pair – a female and a male.

Flamingo.

A Pelican at the Pelican Cove.

A Swan at Swan Lake.

American Flamingo.

Blue and gold Macaw.

Penguin Feeding at Jurong Bird Park Singapore

King of the Skies (Birds of Prey Show) at Jurong Bird Park Singapore

Well, I hope you enjoyed this series although there was many more exhibits/attractions and unique birds that was not featured here. If you are interested to visit, you may want to head off to Jurong Birk Park website for more reading and planning. Enjoy!

Photos on this blog post are taken on Panasonic DMC-LX3K 10.1MP Digital Camera and Canon EOS 400D Camera (aka Digital Rebel XTi).