Saturday, March 17, 2012

Day 36 To the Bat Cave 12 March 2012

After getting some rest, we headed out into the city to see some of Singapore’s amazing architecture. After enjoying a luxury ice chocolate and coffee at the Coffee Bean, we went to the famous Raffles Hotel where the infamous Singapore Sling is mixed.



Following the advice of several Singaporean people we then took a shuttle to the Night Safari at the Singapore zoo, which is actually a totally different zoo as the one open during the day time next door.







We went to the animal show, took a tram safari, and walked 4 trails that ultimately lead us to the highlight of the evening: the bat cave. In here literally hundreds of fruit bats were flying around us - you could feel the wind from their wings when they moved right past us. Besides the smaller ones, huge flying foxes were also present (with a wingspan up to 5 feet/1.5 m), thank goodness they were less active. After some initial scares, we stayed for quite some time watching them eat and fly around: we’ve come a long way from being trapped in our hotel room on our honeymoon because there was a little bat in the hallway.

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