Family outing to River Safari, 14 Dec 2013

On 14 Dec 2014, my family and I went to River Safari for the first time. We arrived at the zoo at around 10.30 a.m. We met a monkey mascot at the Singapore Zoo entrance. Isaac and Imax quickly took a photo with the mascot. 

 

 

We booked our tickets online. There was a long queue to book the Amazon River boat ride. We managed to get the 4 - 5 pm time slot. First, we visited the Mississippi River.

We saw the Mississippi Paddlefish and Alligator Snapping Turtle. The American Beaver was sleeping.

 

Alligator Snapping Turtle

Mississippi Paddlefish

A normal terrapin swimming with the Mississippi Paddlefish .

Next, we visited the Congo River. We saw the Giant Puffer Fish.

After that, we visited the River Nile. There, we saw the African Arowana, Tigerfish and Giraffe Catfish.

Giraffe catfish

At Ganges River, we saw the Indian Gharial. It's a kind of crocodile, feeding mainly on small fishes.

Indian Gharial

 

Next, we went to the Murray River. There, we saw the Australian Lungfish and Murray Cod. We continued walking to the Mekong River. We saw the Mekong Giant Catfish, Giant Freshwater Stingray and Crab-eating Macaque.

Mekong Giant Catfish

Giant Freshwater Stingray

Crab-eating Macaque

Stork

After that, we proceed to the Yangtze River. There, we saw the Chinese Alligator and Sturgeon.

Chinese alligator

The children are looking at the Sturgeon.

We reach the queue to the Giant Panda Forest. By this time, Ivory is already very tired. Look at the children bored face.

Queueing to enter the Giant Panda Forest

We saw the Red Panda, Golden Pheasant, Giant Panda "Kai Kai" and "Jia Jia" here.

 

Greedy Jia Jia eating bamboo 

Cute Kai Kai

Walking to digest the bamboo

It's already 12+ pm. The children were starving. Ma Ma Panda Kitchen is so crowded. I asked Xieyi yo queue up to buy food while the rest of us waited for a table.

 





 

Panda bao $3 each. Chocolate flavour

Our lunch

 

Ivory slept through our lunch. After our lunch, we walked towards the Squirrel Monkey Forest.

Next, we visited the Amazon Flooded Forest.

This is the elctric eel.

 

Isaac loves Piranha. And he's very happy to see this kind of fish.

We walked to the aquarium where the Manatee are.

 

Ivory had woken up from her sleep. She was amazed by the fishes and Manatee at the aquarium.

The giant Otter taking a sunbath.

 

 

There's an animal show outside the Panda souvenir store. Isaac and Imax taking a photo with a mini size vulture.

Taking the Amazon River Boat ride.

We left River Safari at around 5 pm. It's a tiring day for the parents but the kids enjoyed themselves.