In the far north of Singapore, where the island looks across the strait towards Malaysia, Admiralty Park is one of the largest parks in the country, a sprawling expanse of woodland, mangrove and open space that combines protected nature with one of the most ambitious playgrounds anywhere in the city-state. The park is divided into distinct zones, a tranquil nature area threaded with boardwalks and trails through secondary forest and coastal mangrove, and a lively activity area famous for an eno.....

Home to more than three and a half thousand birds drawn from some four hundred species, Bird Paradise is the largest bird park in Asia, a lush expanse in the Mandai nature precinct where visitors wander through vast walk-through aviaries among free-flying flocks. The park opened in 2023 as the successor to the much-loved Jurong Bird Park, which had delighted generations of Singaporeans since 1971, and the great migration of thousands of birds from the old site to the new was a remarkable undert.....

Opened in 2026 within the Mandai nature precinct, Exploria is one of the largest indoor nature-themed multimedia attractions in Southeast Asia, a vast digital playground where visitors journey through hidden realms of the natural world that no zoo or aquarium could ever recreate. Spanning some ten thousand square metres across two levels, the attraction abandons cages and tanks entirely in favour of screens, projections, simulators and interactive installations, conjuring environments that range.....

On a quiet rise in the north of Singapore, the Kranji War Memorial commemorates the men and women who died defending Malaya and Singapore during the Second World War. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and dedicated in 1957, it gathers more than four thousand graves alongside memorials bearing the names of over twenty thousand more whose remains were never identified or recovered. The design centres on a striking central pylon shaped to suggest the wing of an aircraft, rising .....

Fans of the blocky video game can step inside its world at the Minecraft Experience, a touring immersive exhibition that makes its Asian debut in 2026 at the Green Canvas event space within the Mandai Wildlife Reserve. Branded Villager Rescue, the hour-long adventure follows previous runs in Dallas, London and Toronto and is built around a story in which players set out to save a village from a zombie siege. Visitors pass through eight themed rooms that recreate familiar Minecraft biomes, from .....

Billed as the first adventure-based zoological park in Asia, Rainforest Wild Asia opened in 2025 as the newest member of the Mandai wildlife cluster in the north of Singapore. Rather than viewing animals from fixed paths, visitors choose their own level of exploration, moving through a multi-layered rainforest by gentle elevated walkways or by rugged trails that scramble over rocks and dip into caves. The thirteen-hectare park is arranged into a series of themed zones that run from the forest f.....

Singapore only publicly accessible natural hot spring rises in a quiet corner of the north, at Sembawang Hot Spring Park off Gambas Avenue. The spring was first noted in the early twentieth century, and its mineral water was once bottled commercially, but for decades it was little more than a cluster of taps and drains beside a military camp before being reborn as a proper park. A redevelopment by the parks board, completed in 2020, kept the rustic, village-like feel that locals were fond of wh.....

The world first wildlife park designed for night-time viewing, the Singapore Night Safari opened in 1994 alongside the older zoo in the forested Mandai district. After dark, when most zoos close, it comes alive, using subtle, moonlight-like lighting to let visitors watch nocturnal animals going about their natural business under cover of darkness. Spread across a large tract of secondary rainforest, the park is divided into geographical regions home to creatures from the Himalayan foothills to .....

Organised around the great rivers of the world, River Wonders is a wildlife park in the Mandai cluster that opened in 2014 and was renamed from River Safari a few years later. It leads visitors along recreations of famous waterways, from the Mississippi and the Nile to the Mekong and the Yangtze, each stocked with the freshwater creatures that live in and around them. The park is best known for its giant pandas, long a star draw, kept in a climate-controlled forest along with red pandas and oth.....

One of the earliest zoos to abandon bars and cages in favour of open, moated enclosures, the Singapore Zoo opened in 1973 and helped pioneer a style of display in which animals appear to roam in landscapes that mimic their natural homes. Set on a wooded peninsula jutting into the Upper Seletar Reservoir, it has grown into one of the most admired zoos in the world. The open-concept design uses water, planting and hidden barriers rather than obvious fences, so that visitors see orang-utans moving.....