Showing posts with label Singapore Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore Zoo. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2025

Mandai Board Walk, Singapore

Since covid had restricted us from travelling during the pandemic, Singaporean had been walking hahaha. I also started walking and with a lot of new parks and attractiions opening during these few years, make us walk more and admire nature more too.
Took Bus 138 and alight at the Singapore Zoo Stop (the sign shown on the bus screen).
Mandai Boardwalk is the latest boardwalk to open and is near to the Singapore Zoo. After alighting at the Singapore Zoo stop, just looked for the sign that stated Singapore Zoo.

After taking the escalator to street level, just followed the signs that lead to Boardwalk.

The boardwalk is about 3.3 km and stretch from River Wonders and Singapore Zoo.  We walked from Point A to Point C and then back to Point B to exit. The whole walk took more than an hour. Lots of shades makes walking easier. But there's no toilet along the boardwalk but there's toilets near  Point A and Point B.



Vines hanging down to the boardwalk giving lots of shade as we walked along the boardwalk.


Spotted Mandai Treehouse - Mandai Rainforest Resort opposite the boardwalk.

After reading this sign warning of Macaque, we saw a troop of them running along the fences, so afraid  they would snatch my handphone haha.












Bird watch at the end of the Boardwalk
More encounters with animals along the Mandai Boardwalk.
Monitor Lizard
A pair of cute monkeys

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Singapore Mandai Zoo - Flowers


Flower of the ginger. Sometimes the petals are used for cooking for flavour.




Beautiful orchids after the rain.



Fern

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Singapore Mandai Zoo - Flowers

I have a hard time posting these photos, need to do homework to find out the names of the flowers...lol. Mable's blog help me a lot in identifying some of the flowers.

Canna flower

Heliconia

Heliconia (Bird of Paradise)



Not sure what flower is the above. It looked so cute and pretty. Will try to find out the name of the flower.

Powder puff flowers
Anthurium Flower

Thunbergia ( I think this is the name of the flower)

Clerodendrum paniculatum (pagoda flower) - hahaha got the name of the flower from Mable's Blog.

Alpinia purpurata

Hope I did not get the names of the flowers wrong.

Mable, if you are reading this post, thank you for your blog, I now treated your blog as my flower guide book. :)

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Singapore Mandai Zoo - Rafflesia

Going through my files in my computer, I realised I still have some photos from my visit to Singapore Zoo that I have not posted in my blog.

We were visiting the "Fragile Forest" in Singapore Mandai Zoo and we came across this huge flower called the Rafflesia. I am not sure if it is real or fake. But am very sure it is not a sculpture. We dare not touch the flower cause it could be the real flower. Even my son could not tell the difference...lol. I wonder anyone could give me the answer if the Rafflesia in the Zoo is real or fake. Would be nice if it is real. You can view my previous post on the fragile forest.



You can read more about Rafflesia from Wikipedia
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Singapore Zoo - Snakes


Yikes - am so afriad of snake.

But this green snake really attracted me.





No way I am going near this python.

Yikes..look at the snake's tongue....I already feeling so ticklish...lol.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Singapore Zoo - More animals


There are so many animals in the zoo that I am too tired to take photos of them all...lol. The lion's enclosure is a favourite with the visitors.

I guess Rhino must have a fight, it had a wound on its body.







I wondered how the Giraffe sleep.