Tom It has been a long time since our last Night Safari visit to the Singapore Zoo. In this review, we’ll check out some of these amazing nocturnal creatures and share if there are any changes in the post-COVID night safari!
How to get to Night Safari Singapore
There are actually several ways to get to Night Safari via public transport. Here are the details from the Singapore Zoo website. This time, we took a ride to Khatib MRT station and took the Mandai Khatib Shuttle…
The Mandai Khatib Shuttle takes visitors from Khatib MRT station to Singapore Zoo / Night Safari for the price of only $1! The ride takes about 15 minutes and you won’t wait more than 20 minutes for a ride to arrive. The shuttle starts at 8am in the morning and ends at 11pm at night. You’ll also notice that the condition of the bus is actually rather good. A comfortable ride.
Creatures of the Night Show at Night Safari
Upon arrival, we headed straight to the Creatures of the Night Show as we were told that seats were limited during the post-COVID era. On hindsight however, you may want to choose to do the tram ride first, if you’re there at 630pm when doors open. This is because, you can experience the tram ride while there’s still sunlight and after the show, experience the night time version of the tram ride.
The first Creatures of the Night Show starts at 7:30pm. Thereafter, it takes place at 8:30pm, 9:30pm and 10:30pm. This time, as we were one of the first few to enter the theatre, we were seated right at the first row!
Of course, one of the highlights at Creatures of the Night Show are the owls…
The owls were able to rotate their heads for 270 degrees! Moreover, there was a flight demonstration which showed how silent owls can be when they fly. This helps them as a predator in the night. When they flap their wings, you’d expect a sound right? No sound heard at all! Probably quieter than an electric car!
Our favourite animal during the Creatures of the Night show is probably the White Racoon. It was SOOO CUTE! Unfortunately, we were mesmerised by its cute-ness that we forgot to take a photo of it! 😅
After the show, we took a short walk over to the entrance where the main tram station was. The tram ride takes about 30 minutes to complete one loop but its always a thrill each time we take it. This evening, we took the ride twice! In the post-COVID era, tram rides are inclusive and also, the wait is so much shorter! The number of trams are the same but the visitors have decreased. Hence, we didn’t have to wait the both times we boarded the tram ride! Do note also that during this period, only the main tram station is open. The other tram stations were closed during our visit.
There are a few main stays at the Night Safari such as the Pink Flamingoes and the Asiatic Lion (aka Asian White Lions). We were fortunate to have taken the shot where both the Lion and the Lioness were chilling out close to each other. Of course, we’ll never forget Chawang (Elephant) the symbol of Night Safari. When our tram passed by, our tram captain made a joke that Chawang’s trumpet resembled that of T-Rex in Jurassic Park – “so scary”, he said #129315;
Here is the video of the various animals we encountered this evening…
Night Safari Singapore Trails
After our first tram ride, we headed over to start on the night trails. As mentioned earlier, since all the other tram stations are closed, if you embark on the trail, you’ll have to walk one complete round which took us about an hour. Otherwise, you can backtrack after completing either the Fishing Cat Trail or Wallaby Trail, the 2 closest trails to the main entrance.
If you decide to walk the entire loop like we did, it will take you from the Fishing Cat Trail (Pangolin, Common Palm Civets) to the Leopard Trail (Leopards, Owls, Bats) to the East Lodge Trail (Aardvark, Babirusa) and finally back to the Wallaby Trail (Possum, Wallaby).
This time, we saw the Anteater “vacuuming” the various holes of the ant hill, caught a video of the cute three-banded Armadillo going round in circles and also came across this interesting creature, called the Aardvark – a creature with rabbit’s ears, pig’s nose and kangaroo’s til.
After our walk, we did another round of tram ride before heading to take the shuttle bus at 10:30pm…
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All in all, due to the lower visitorship, we actually enjoyed trip to Night Safari Singapore very much. We hope you have enjoyed our coverage of the Night Safari. If you have visited Night Safari Singapore, Singapore Zoo or the River Safari in the post-COVID era, let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!
