The first morning we went to the famous Singapore zoo for breakfast with the orangutans. The mama there has two babies, one hers and one adopted. They are amazing creatures. It was funny, though, that they wanted us to stay away from them here when we held them in Bali.
Can you see all four in this picture?
fearless
it was so hot! We love the animal encounters in this part of the world. And the breakfast had real pink guava juice (like in Venezuela, not the green guava that they had in Thailand) and it was excellent
In a large enclosure that we could walk through they set it up like the rain forest. This is a fresh water ray that I didn't know existed.
There were flying foxes all over flying around
the sun shining through the wings was a fun picture to take
bats hang because they are not strong enough to stand up
butterflies in there as well reminiscent of the park on Okinawa
ring-tailed lemurs were walking around in there as well
one of the best aspects of the park were the free roaming orangutans around the park
we were able to walk right under these guys
there is the mama in the show, demonstrating how tough she is before she husked a coconut with her bear hands
feeding the rhinos
rhino breath was something else...
they set up feedings such that you can go from pen to pen viewing all of the feedings
Pumbaa
Timon and family
Simba
making faces
feeding the giraffes
then feeding the pair of white tigers
I said a zoo wouldn't suffice after Thailand for tigers and that is true. I wish I could have pet them, but this was still impressive.
the sun was so bright you can see the glare
an a wild safari from the safety of the zoo
the orangutans really were the highlight
this guy got tired and just covered up in a burlap bag blanket
while they had a komodo dragon exhibit, these monitor lizards are native to Singapore and were just walking down the road in the zoo
it was like walking around in jungle book
the amount of animals are more than we can get in the blog, but the monkeys were really exotic
golden monkeys
You couldn't tell if you were in a zoo or out in the jungle. That night we went to the night safari, but as you couldn't us flash (it would hurt the animals) none of those pictures turned out. The coolest animal there was a three foot long giant red flying squirrel from India and it flew right over my head.
The next day we went to Little India.
It was a big party for Deepavali.
what the pictures don't do is give you the incense and Indian food smells
with the bright colors also was the excellent Indian music; my wife found some really nice little tables, but we didn't know how to get them home with the commercials flights so we didn't get them, but when I went back TDY the next week I was able to pick them up.
a local temple
very intricate
and an Indian Avatar :)
I said I needed that outfit in the middle for Halloween, but it was a bit pricey
then we headed over to Chinatown
our youngest is definitely two
then we headed to Merlion park
that is the Singapore flyer in the background
then it was off to the Gardens by the Bay
where they have built these "super trees" that light up to music
very beautiful
and still very hot
waiting for a taxi in the hotel lobby
then it was off to the River Safari with river creatures, and pandas
a fresh water puffer fish
a rare Chinese alligator
and the super cute red pandas
the branch went over the walkway so we were looking right up at this guy
check out those claws
Master Shifu
then his larger cousins
This was the best panda enclosure and the most active I have ever seen them. The best part was that their building was air conditioned.
munchin' on bamboo
watching them move was almost like a guy in a suite; also, they have six fingers on each hand, "I know someone who is looking for you"
and then he dazzled us with a bamboo flute solo...
my little pandas
an anime interpretation of our friends Kai Kai and Jia Jia
by the river
doesn't that look like it's out of a National Geographic?
at the end of the River Safari they had a big tank full of manatees
they would walk on their flippers and the babies were surprisingly fast
then we went to the bird park
despite a little rain it was a good visit
our daughter with her favorite birds
my wife had us pose for this on the bridge when our youngest was melting down
then we fed the Lorikeets
the bird whisperer
after seeing his boat in Hong Kong we got to see Lord Shen in Singapore
they had a cool bird show
this pea fowl followed us around for 15 minutes
the end of our Singapore adventure
time to fly home with their birds
Jason, you need to call me because I don't even know where you are going and you already have movers there.-addie
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