Day Seven - Friday 15th April

We've woken to another beautiful sunny day in Singapore.  Today we head off by public transport (bus 135 and bus 138) to the Singapore Zoo.  Jonathan wasn't too keen in visiting the zoo but even he admitted that it was a fantastic place to visit!

The zoo (like everywhere in Singapore) is extremely clean and the animals seem to walk around freely throughout the zoo.  If you look hard enough, you can see the fencing. We particularly loved all the different types of monkeys as they are so cute and the Orang Utans are absolutely spell binding! A baby orangutan kept pulling on Nick's t-shirt whilst I was taking photos and Nick said the baby's skin was so soft!

 

The zoo was made up of different areas, we didn't bother going to the Australian area but we loved the African area the most.  We saw lions and lionesses, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, zebras, hippos, elephants, giraffes and many more that I can't name.

We also did the Night Safari next door to the zoo and it commenced at 7.30pm with a fire-eating show.

Some parts of the walkways around the park are extremely eerie and in some places we could hardly see where we were walking.  Most other tourists only took the tram rides around the park but we really enjoyed walking around the different tracks as you could get really close to the animals.



 At one stage, I was giving a Spotted Jaguar a rub/scratch under her chin and she kept nuzzling up to the glass to get more cuddles/scratches.  Luckily there was double glazing between the jaguar and myself!

 

 

Another highlight during our time at the Night Safari was to see the 5 month old (and 300kg) baby elephant - she was gorgeous!

It was another late night for us as we didn't arrive back at the hotel until after 11pm. 
We'll have to sleep in tomorrow morning!