Thing To Do & See

Singapore Zoo Night Safari

Next door, but completely separate from the zoo, is the acclaimed Night Safari. This 40-hectare forested park is home to 120 different species of animals, including tigers, lions and leopards. In the darkness the moats and other barriers seem to melt away and it actually looks like these creatures could walk over and take a bite out of you. The atmosphere is heightened even further by the herds of strolling antelope, which often pass within inches of the electric trams that take you around.

Singapore Zoo

This zoo is world-class, and is constantly being upgraded. The zoo's showpiece animals include endangered white rhino, Bengal white tigers, polar bears, baboons and orang-utans. Wherever possible, moats replace bars, and the zoo is beautifully spread out over 28 hectares of lush greenery beside the Upper Seletar Reservoir.

Highlights are many - from the moment you step in to be greeted by free-ranging cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis and siamangs cavorting in the trees.

Nei Xue Tang

This museum offers the largest collection of Buddhist artefacts in the city, including relics from China, Tibet, India, Japan, Burma and beyond. Pieces range from statues and jewellery to assorted esoteric devotional items.

Raffles Hotel

Whatever ostentatious modern projects Singapore undertakes now or in the future, Raffles Hotel will likely always be its most famous landmark. There's just something about the sight of that snow-white façade, the brushed-gravel drive, the Sikh doorman, the whispers of history. Astonishing to think it was scheduled for demolition in 1987, before an around S$160 million facelift restored it to glory.