January 21, 2014 - lunch (a little taste of home !! ) and then the River & Night Safaris

January 21, 2014

Breakfast & cappuccinos and a little face timing with David and Bob &
Betty, then we headed on the MRT to yet another very cool building .....

where we enjoyed lunch at ..... (wait for it) ..... THE WHITE SPOT !! 

 

. ..complete with photos of the original building on Granville Street, and the story of the “car hop”.  The server was suitably impressed that we lived in Vancouver and had actually BEEN to the original restaurant.  Well, OK .... he was maybe 15 years old and didn’t understand a word of what I was saying, but he DID understand that we wanted our photo taken !!  A White Spot in Singapore .... who knew ????

 

 

After lunch we met up with Ken and headed out to the River Safari and Night Safari Wildlife Parks .... two amazing conservation parks.  River Safari Park educates about the amazing wildlife around the world’s freshwater (river) systems complete with fish and animals from all over the world (in their “natural” enclaves), including Kai Kai and Jia Jia, Singapore’s two giant pandas, and a red panda (which looks more like a fox).

 

 

 

 

Kai Kai (the male) is having a little nap ....

Jai Jai (the female) is very shy and was NOT coming out of her den.

 

I LOVE these little macaques

 

 

The Night Safari is an evening-time drive around the grounds of an adjacent park, to see wild, nocturnal animals.  Many of the animals in these parks are endangered and the parks run a conservation and re-population program .....