This morning, we headed back to the Metro and jumped on the North South line for the long haul to Jurong East Station. Luckily, much of the journey is above ground so were able to enjoy looking around suburban Singapore. At Jurong East, we swapped to the East West line and went a couple of stops to Boon Lay. Here, we switched to local bus and headed to Jurong Bird Park.
Having bought our tickets, we started heading round the park and were initially very disappointed as we were expecting big walk-in aviaries. There were some interesting and colourful birds in individual cages, but nothing to catch our imagination. Then after about an hour we came across a larger aviary containing a lot of Loris! This was a large walk-in aviary and the birds were well used to visitors. It was possible to buy some food and they'd come and perch on your hand. They were very colourful and also noisy.
From this point, the really started to enjoy the visit as we found several other huge walk-in aviaries similar to ones we had visited in Kuala Lumpur in Malasiya. One even had a huge waterfall in it. I won't bore you with a bird list, but if like pictures, try my FB page! The photo opportunities were excellent throughout the park.
The park is well worth a visit, you cannot fail to be amazed at the variety of tropical birds. In the end, we spent the best part of 6 hours there.
We came back by the same route and came back to the hotel to recoup our energy briefly before setting out to find dinner. Due to Chinese New Year, the street food courts are closed this evening but we eventually found the Basil Thai restaurant. The food and the service were good, we had chicken spring rolls, sea food pad Thai and chicken with cashews. It was all very good and the bill inexpensive.
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