Neals at the Night Safari

Tonight we went to the third must-see place on Brian's Singapore to do list: the Night Safari. It's the world's first (of course it's the first, it's Singapore) evening wildlife exhibit. It's like a zoo but the animals are in recreated habitats and some of them are even free roaming (to a degree, of course). We had a few very tame animals like deer come right up to the tram we rode.

We saw everything from big cats to elephants to giraffes to large rodents to plain dwellers. You could get off the tram in the middle and take some separate trails to see other things up close. I went into a bat habitat where fruit bats where flying freely around. You could feel the flutter as they flew by, but it wasn't too scary because they were harmless. Some of them were hanging upside down and looked like mini Draculas. Brian chose not to enter the bat cage!

Understandably but unfortunately, flash photography of the animals is prohibited because it agitates some of them. How do you take pictures in the dark without a flash? Maybe that's the point... Anyway, to recreate the experience for you, Brian and I posed like some of the lions and tigers and bears, oh my, that we saw.



Hope you enjoyed that. I cheated once on the Malayan porcupine.


I couldn't help it. Besides, if a camera flashes in the jungle and no one is there to see it, did it really flash? Hmmm...

The Night Safari was decked out for Halloween and on Friday and Saturday nights they offer a spooky safari during the month of October. Since we went on a Monday night, I tried my best to scare those around me.