Travel Blog Singapore

I love all these free-ranging monkeys, especially the chubby fellow here, the White-faced Saki. It’s a male species. It’s feeding time for the female white-faced saki monkey. This type of New World monkey feeds on fruits, seeds, nuts and insects. The Fragile Forest is one of my favourites at the Singapore Zoo. It’s pretty exciting [...]

That day, I lost my way in the rainforest. To the shock of my life, I saw a leopard. There was nothing I could do. The first instinct was to hide myself behind some bushes. But alas! The beast spotted me, glaring deep into my eyes. My jelly legs couldn’t move at all as the [...]

For safety reasons, parents know that they have to be watchful of their children while exploring the zoo. Somehow, it seems like some adults need “special attention” too, in case they behave like this woman who jumped into the enclosure and “initially appeared to be elated as she swam towards a bear” during the bears’ [...]

Let’s continue from Singapore Zoo (Part 1/5) and explore deeper into the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Tools on display in an African housing. Watch out for the Hamadryas Baboons of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia. It’s said to have more than 70 baboons kept in this”Great Rift Valley”. And I just learnt that [...]

It has been more than a decade since I last visited the Singapore Zoo, which was then known as the Singapore Zoological Gardens. Also commonly known locally as the Mandai Zoo, it is one of the best zoos in the world by Forbes, presenting an “open concept” zoo where animals are enclosed in natural settings [...]