Singapore’s Bird Paradise, which relocated to Mandai Wildlife Reserve from its old home in Jurong in May 2023, has been a certified hit with both locals and tourists agog at the sheer spectacle of one of Asia’s largest bird parks. Eight aviaries housing 3,500 birds from 400 species (a quarter of which are endangered in the wild) are set within a 17-hectare Eden of landscaped greenery, rice terraces, a 20-meter-tall waterfall, suspension bridges strung high over the jungle canopy, and children’s play zones. If it’s all too much for one day stay overnight at the country’s first eco rainforest resort. This being food-mad Singapore, you’ll find a handful of F&B outlets on the grounds; with 10 dining spots just outside the gates. The scale of the park, and the tropical heat, make it almost impossible to see everything in one day. Besides the 3,000-square-meter Penguin Cove, complete with faux ice floes and temperature-controlled sea water, the flamboyance of pink flamingoes and grand hornbills are crowd-pleasers, alongside Eurasian hoopoes hamming it up with Madagascar partridges, while in the Australian Outback enclosure, stern emus are heckled by laughing kookaburras. In other words, a first-rate variety show. —Daven Wu

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