Pak Tor Night (Safari)


Guess where Lazy took me the weekend he booked out?



It was just a simple dinner on Friday night, and then on Saturday...



We went to the Night Safari!

Lazy hasn't been there before, and I was there when I was very, very young and all I remember was that there were a lot of trees. So it was pretty much an eye-opening experience for the both of us.

Before we entered the entrance, there were a bunch of crazy people dancing with fire near the Ulu Ulu restaurant.



Like, what the heck?

First stop was at the Forest Giants' Trail, where I think they were showcasing.... trees. That's probably the trail I remembered from young.

It was so dark and it seemed such a crime to use flash on our cameras (it hurts the animals' eyes, mind you) that I couldn't get any decent pictures.


This is supposed to be a tiger. See if you can spot the stripes.

There were also stringent walking trails and tram ride trails, and they both go different ways, so we missed out on a couple of exhibits.

But I caught these amazingly cooperative animals who weren't shy at all, standing around in full view. Because my camera sucked, I could only aim it in the general direction, pray that they're somehow in view and snap, and then come back to digitally enhance the pictures.

The hippos.



The giant flying squirrel.



Raccoons, maybe?



Otters, and very noisy ones at that. Lazy actually didn't know that otters take to the water.



My personal favourite, owls.



If I have not forgotten, this should be a flying fox. They're damn cute (and damn big, and damn NOT shy).



The rest of the pictures were simply too dark to even make out anything.

After touring around most of the walkable parts of the park, we went for the Creatures of the Night show.




Waiting in line..

While the show was going on, the presenter suddenly announced that they lost one of their animals. It sparked off a frantic search amongst the audience (that's us) and suddenly, someone behind me started screaming and pushing everyone in sight.

It was actually one of the presenters, trying to get us to panic. They opened one trapdoor on the other side of the audience, found nothing, then came to open a trapdoor right underneath me. And you know what they found?

A reticulated python. Of course, it was all part of the show, to make the audience (that's us) feel more involved. Which basically means, all throughout the enjoying the show there was a reticulated python beneath me.

Nice.

After the show, we went outside where there was a corner were we were able to take pictures with some of the awesome animals. For a nominal fee towards the conservaton of the animals, of course.

Can you spot the little darling?



There she is!



This cute little fella just laid there and let me molest it in any way I liked.



And this playful little thing just wanted a snuggle, which the handler did right after we had our photo taken.



Isn't he sweet?