Rodney & Sheryl's Travels: 3/17-18 - Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Singapore has great public transportation which allowed us to roam the city easily via MRT (Metropolitan Rail Transit) and bus lines. It is very clean, and organized to a tee.

According to Jack Hanna (ZooLife with Jack Hanna is one of our favorite shows on Sunday morning), the Singapore Zoo is the #1 zoo in the world. So, rather than opting for the $30 Singapore Sling (no glass included) at The Long Bar in Raffles, we donated our tourism dollars to a day at the zoo! And it was money well spent. We're not experts, but we are animal lovers and have been to a lot of zoos in the United States and abroad. All we can say after visiting the Singapore Zoo, Jack Hanna really knows his stuff! Wow, what a zoo! What impressed us the most is the way it feels - it doesn't feel like a zoo at all. The enclosures are laid out in a way that makes them really look and feel like the animal's natural habitat. And some of the animals are actually free to roam, mostly monkeys and Orangutans. Our favorites were the Red Pandas, Giant Pandas, and White Tigers.

False Gharial - An ancient animal, believed to have been in existence for the last 65 million years.
Now endangered because of construction, land clearance, and water pollution.