Singapore Zoo Mandai - have breakfast with an orangutan
If you come to Singapore with children, then you should definitely visit the Singapore Zoo. It is a very pleasant, green place where the zoo's pets run among the visitors. Long-tailed lemurs will frolic and feast on fruit, peacocks and other birds will walk next to you. You can eat at a restaurant in the jungle or go with children to the aqua zone.
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Singapore zoo
The Singapore Zoo or Mandai Zoo, as it is also called, is located in the central water reserve on the banks of a reservoir covered with dense forest. It occupies 28 hectares and 40 hectares are given for night safari and river safari.
The zoo has won numerous awards and is considered one of the best in the world. It is built on the principle of an open zoo. Most of the enclosures are open, the animals are separated from the visitors only by the moat. There are also glazed aviaries with landscaping inside to make the animals more comfortable. There are no cages and small pens in the zoo. Animals are kept in the most comfortable and close to natural conditions.
A booklet with a diagram of the zoo is issued at the entrance. It also lists a feeding schedule for the animals - a great time to take good photos. In one of the interesting shows, visitors can not only watch from the side, but also take part. The show is called «Jungle breakfast», runs from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. allows visitors to get to know the orangutans better, share a meal with them and take beautiful photos with a whole family of these huge animals.
An orangutan, with whom you can have breakfast, unless he devours everything himself / commons.wikimedia / Lionel Leo
Mandai Zoo is not very big, but it is very rich, green and beautiful. There are many plants and flowers in it. A huge number of animals are kept in excellent conditions, more than 2500 individuals. Many species of animals and birds collected in this zoo are included in the Red Book as an endangered species. There are also animals that are no longer found in nature. For example, tigers, but not ordinary ones, but white handsome men. You can also feed a white rhino at the zoo, for money, of course..
Elephants are taken to swim in a reservoir, which is also located on the territory of the zoo. You can watch the bathing. These huge animals love water and it is difficult to get them out of there, they do not want to go out into any.
Many animals and birds that are not dangerous fly and move around the zoo freely. For example, mouse deer, peacock, long-tailed lemurs that constantly run underfoot, storks, royal pigeons.
Lemurs that run along paths among visitors / commons.wikimedia / hensiyuan
There is an opportunity to purchase tickets, which include movement around the zoo on small trams. Singaporeans are great in this regard, they always try to foresee everything in order to be comfortable. You can even rent a baby stroller at this zoo..
In my opinion, the animals in the Singapore zoo are doing very well. All plump, with a smooth glossy coat and looking contented.
Fat and cute tapir / commons.wikimedia / hensiyuan
Tamarin or Oedipus marmoset, funny monkeys / commons.wikimedia / hensiyuan
Singapore Zoo Mandai
Zoo layout
Visit information
Working hours: from 8:30 to 18:00.
Ticket price: adult 40 SGD; child 26 SGD.
Discounted tickets for SGD 38.25>
The discount is small, but if you go to the zoo with the whole family, it’s not bad, then you can buy ice cream for children with this money at the exit. We go to the Klook website, register and take tickets for a convenient date. After payment, a voucher will be sent to the mail. You show it at the entrance on the phone screen. It is also convenient to buy online because there is no need to stand in line at the cashier.
There are many signs on the territory so you can always find your way in the direction you need.
There is a luggage room where you can drop off your belongings so as not to carry them with you.
It is better to visit in the morning, because at this time the animals are more active..
There is a children's aqua zone and a food court with reasonable prices by Singaporean standards..
Two more interesting places to visit with children have opened near the zoo - this is a night safari and a river safari. River Safari: Adult 32 SGD; per child 21 SGD. Night Safari: Adult 47 SGD; per child 31 SGD.
Breakfast in the jungle takes place from 9 am to 10:30 am at AH MENG RESTAURANT (TERRACE). Ticket price: adult 35 SGD and children 25 SGD (children from 6 to 12 years old).
You can buy a ticket to visit Jurong Bird Park at the zoo ticket office. Ticket price: adult - 30 SGD; child: 20 - SGD.
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