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.....

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.....

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 .....

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.....

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.....