No trip to Singapore is complete without a visit to the Night Safari at the Singapore Zoo. We navigated there on public transportation connecting from the subway to public bus. On the bus, we met a family from Perth, Australia. They made room for us to sit on the crowded bus and we got to chatting. Their young son was quite precocious and loved to talk. I learned quite a bit about Perth and about their adventures in Southeast Asia as well as another trip they had taken to North America.
I got another Déjà Disney feeling when we arrived at the Night Safari. We bought tickets, passed by the "native" song and dance show near the entrance and queued up to board a tram into the park.
Our host snapped a photo before we departed on our journey. The Night Safari was fantastic. We saw a rhino, slow loris, cape buffalo, and flying fox. The most amazing sight, by far, was the lions. One of them began roaring loudly as we slowed to a stop in their area. While we were safe on the outside of the well-camouflaged enclosure, it definitely sent a chill down my spine to hear the animal's raw power. He was making it plainly clear who was master of this domain.
We decided to take a cab back to our hotel since the Zoo was a long distance from the city center (it took us about an hour by bus/train to get there). The cab that picked us up was a Chrysler 300. The driver was chatty and talked a lot about how much it cost to own a car like this in Singapore -- $100,000. The driver joked that our hotel always snapped to attention when guests showed up in his swank vehicle. Indeed, they rushed to open the doors for us when we arrived. The ride was very comfortable and the company very entertaining.
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