The Rough Guide to Singapore (Travel Guide with Free eBook) by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Singapore
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2019-05-10T11:28:52+00:00

The park also puts on various bird shows, the most exciting of which is Kings of the Skies (daily 10am & 4pm), in which eagles, hawks, falcons and owls show off their predatory skills. Another crowd-pleaser is High Flyers (daily 11am & 3pm), a sort of park’s greatest hits featuring parrot stunts, swooping hornbills and a flamingo invasion.

The walk-in aviaries

The Wings of Asia section showcases some birds you may have fleetingly glimpsed around Singapore, as well as species from the surrounding region, including fairy bluebirds, black-naped orioles and the winsome Luzon bleeding-heart dove, with a carmine blotch on its breast. Close by are Jungle Jewels, featuring South American birdlife, and the Lory Loft, populated by dozens of multicoloured lories and lorikeets, which have no qualms about perching on your arm. At the far end of the park from the main entrance is the Waterfall Aviary, long the park’s pride. It boasts a 30m-high waterfall and six hundred winged denizens, including crested guinea fowls and hoopoes.

Science Centre Singapore

15 Science Centre Rd (check online for details of its impending new address) • Tues–Sun 10am–6pm; also open Mon during school breaks and public holidays • $12/$8, special exhibitions may be ticketed separately • 6425 2500, science.edu.sg • Jurong East MRT, then a 10min walk west or bus #66 or #335

Interactivity is the watchword at Science Centre Singapore, on the eastern edge of the artificial Jurong Lake. Galleries hold hundreds of hands-on displays focusing on genetics, space and other subjects, allowing you to calculate your carbon footprint, test your high-frequency hearing and grasp the biology of ageing. With kids in tow, you might want to extend your visit to the winter-themed Snow City or stick with science at the Omni-Theatre.

Omni-Theatre

21 Jurong Town Hall Rd • Tues–Fri 10am–6pm (also Mon during school breaks and public holidays), Sat & Sun 10am–7pm; observatory Fri 7.45–10pm • $14; observatory free • science.edu.sg

Just north of the Science Centre, the Omni-Theatre shows hourly IMAX movies about space and the natural world. It also has an observatory that does stargazing sessions on Fridays. Being almost on the equator, Singapore enjoys views of both the northern and southern skies, though light pollution and clouds put a big dampener on things.

Tiger Brewery

459 Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim • Tours Tues–Sun hourly 1–5pm (children welcome but must be accompanied by adults) • $18/$12; book in advance • 6860 3005, tigerbrewerytour.com.sg • Joo Koon MRT, then bus #182/#182M

Tiger is undoubtedly one of Singapore’s best-known brands internationally, brewed here since 1931 as a joint venture between Heineken and a local drinks manufacturer. The German giants Beck’s soon set up a brewery to produce a rival, Anchor, but Tiger’s parent company acquired the upstart. In 1990 the firm became Asia Pacific Breweries and moved into its present plant in Tuas, where it makes Tiger, Anchor as well as Guinness and other brands. Tours of the brewery take in a mini-museum and let you see the space-age brewing, canning and bottling halls, before you indulge in some free quaffing in the sizeable bar, done out like an old-fashioned pub.

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