« Byebye Bintan, Ni Hao Chinatown | Main | Shopping in Singapore »

Animals in the Dark

We've been in Singapore for a couple of nights, we haven't done much sightseeing, although shopping and eating do seem to be a big proportion of the tourist to-do lists.

Around the corner from the hotel is the Buddhist Tooth Relic Temple, a modern (there's a car park in the basement!) temple, full of buddha statues and gold. The sceptic in me wondered why they emphasised inner peace resulting from giving money to the temple, and every brick and tile could be sponsored. I suppose they are at least being open about it, and there was a whole lot of gold to pay for.

That evening we went to the zoo, or more accurately the one and only Singapore Night Safari. Suitably laden with mozzie repellent we caught a tram around the park, making out the dusky shadows of animals as we drove past - the photo is of a rhino, and about as good as they got, so unusually for me, I just watched the animals. Finally we wandered around the walkways, constantly imagining mozzie bites, but seeing the animals when they are naturally active puts a new slant on a visit to the zoo. It would've been good if the bats in the walk-through enclosure weren't so active!

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on June 26, 2008 4:25 AM.

The previous post in this blog was Byebye Bintan, Ni Hao Chinatown.

The next post in this blog is Shopping in Singapore.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Powered by
Movable Type 3.34