Night Safari
The world's first nocturnal zoo, lit like moonlight and best done on foot. Walk the trails first, ride the tram later, and book your entry timeslot before anything else.
- Where: Mandai
- Price: S$30–60
Ideas for a day out together.
Check age guidance, facilities and opening times before visiting.

Places only match a date when their opening days are confirmed. Ages are a guide from the venue or organiser where they give one. Typical spend per person, in Singapore dollars.
The world's first nocturnal zoo, lit like moonlight and best done on foot. Walk the trails first, ride the tram later, and book your entry timeslot before anything else.
Go north: gravel paths, the old Bukit Timah station and two 1932 truss bridges. The southern stretch between Henderson Road and Spooner Road is shut for works until around July 2027.
Singapore's tallest footbridge, 36 metres over Henderson Road, with a seat built under each of its seven waves. Come for the last hour of daylight and stay for the lights.
A Victorian fort, WWII gun positions, the rock the British blew up (in replica) and the mainland's only public sea cliff, on one hilly walk. NParks lists the boardwalk shut until 2027.
Six hectares of mangroves at the barbecue end of the east, where the mud moves if you stand still. Do the boardwalk, skip the full 10km.
No rollercoaster, no café, no swimming. A 3.6km walk through casuarina woodland and mangroves off Punggol, where the loudest thing is usually a bird.
A new town's river walk that kept an old bus stop, a stretch of Old Punggol Road and a bridge named after the kelongs. Flat, pram-friendly and best at sunset.
Mudflats, migratory waders from as far as the Arctic, and crocodile signs that are not a joke. Singapore's wildest boardwalks, for anyone who can keep quiet.
A 280-metre learner loop at East Coast Park, built for wobbles, with a 500-metre circuit for when the brakes make sense. Do this before the long coastal ride.
A forbidden royal hill, a botanic garden that flopped, a fort nobody rated and a surrender bunker, all on a 48-metre bump in town. Pick one story and follow it.
A concrete drain turned back into a river, with lawns built to flood and otters that arrived on their own. Walk one stretch, not all 3km, and route around the bridge works.
Thirteen swamp-animal play stations on an old car park in Jurong. Still worth the trip, but the zipline and slide tower are closed for maintenance, so manage expectations in the car.
Pick the Mandai park you actually want and do it properly. Trying to cover them all in one day leaves nobody with energy for the last one.
Pick one Sentosa: beach, heritage, sea life, waterpark or rides. Trying to do three in a day is how a family ends up silent on the way home.
Pick one anchor: Jurong Lake Gardens and Forest Ramble for an outdoor day, or Science Centre and KidsSTOP for a wet one. Not all four in an afternoon.
Ask them first: climbing, experimenting, animals or stories. Then book one anchor activity and leave the rest of the afternoon for snacks.
‘Good for kids’ covers everyone from toddlers to teenagers, which is the problem. Choose the session, route or activity for the children actually coming with you.