Handpicked experience · Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
The first zoo built for night visiting, lit just above full-moon level, with barriers you are not meant to see and an equator that delivers dusk at seven all year.
The multi-sensory wildlife Night Safari adventure comes with an onboard tram commentary.
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Embark on a closer look at the night safari animals while you explore the exhibits and walking trails
See a diverse range of the world's nocturnal life aboard the Night Safari tram
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An open-sided tram through ground you cannot walk
Trails on foot for the species the tram passes too quickly
Animals awake and working, rather than asleep in daylight
A shared ride out from the middle of the city and back
An evening at the Singapore Night Safari with the open-sided tram ride included, plus walking trails and a shared transfer from central hotels. About four hours in total, most of it after dark.
The tram does a narrated loop of roughly forty minutes through habitats you cannot reach on foot, and the walking trails cover the parts it does not. Doing both is the point: the tram gives you the large animals across open ground, and the trails put you close to the small ones. A guided section explains what you are looking at along the way.
The place opened in 1994 as the first zoo in the world designed to be visited at night, and the reasoning was simple. The majority of tropical mammals are nocturnal, which means a conventional daytime zoo shows visitors a collection of sleeping shapes. Open the same enclosures after dark and the animals are doing what they actually do — hunting, foraging, moving.
The lighting throughout is tuned to sit just above the level of a full moon: enough for human eyes to adjust to, low enough that the animals behave as if unobserved. This is also why flash photography is banned rather than merely discouraged. A flash in a dark enclosure disrupts an animal that has spent the evening adapting to low light, and staff will stop you.
There are very few bars. The enclosures are separated by dry moats, water channels, planting and changes in level, positioned so that from the tram the habitat looks continuous and the animal appears to be standing in open forest. It takes a moment to work out where the boundary actually is, which is precisely the intention.
Singapore sits almost exactly on the equator, so the sun goes down at around seven in the evening in January and around seven in the evening in July, varying by only a few minutes across the whole year. There is no summer evening light to wait out and no winter dark that arrives too early. Whatever month you visit, the park opens into the same night.
The transfer is shared, so there are other pickups before and after yours, and hotels outside the service area mean meeting at the entrance instead. Dinner at the restaurant inside is arranged there rather than in this booking. It is humid, insects are active after dark, and a light long-sleeved layer is worth more than a jumper. Cancellation is free up to a day ahead.
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About four hours in total including the transfer. The tram loop itself runs roughly forty minutes, and the walking trails take as long as you give them.
Because most tropical mammals are nocturnal. A daytime zoo shows you sleeping animals; opening the same enclosures after dark shows you the same animals hunting and foraging.
The park is lit only slightly brighter than a full moon so the animals behave naturally. A flash disrupts an animal that has spent hours adapted to low light, so staff enforce the rule rather than just posting it.
Rarely. Dry moats, water channels, planting and level changes do the work instead, arranged so that from the tram the habitat looks unbroken.
Barely. Singapore is almost on the equator, so sunset falls around seven in the evening in every month, moving only a few minutes across the whole year.
It collects from selected central hotels, with other pickups before and after yours. Hotels outside the service area meet at the park entrance instead.
No — the restaurant inside the park is arranged there. This booking covers the transfer, admission, the tram and the guided walking section.