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The Sungei Buloh Nature Park (1 Neo Tiew Crescent, 7937377)
is a great place for bird-watching, being a regional stopover
for birds on their North-South migrations.
An 87-hectare wetland reserve, the park is a little less than an
hour's ride by car from the centre of town. Admission is SGD1.00,
and it opens from 7.30 am to 7 pm on weekdays and 7 am to 7 PM on
weekends and public holidays. The park gives you an idea of the
mangrove swamps that once surrounded Singapore.
There's a visitor centre, boardwalks and bird-watching hides, from
which you can spot night herons, or the white-breasted
water hen. Also keep a lookout for various species of butterflies,
mud-skippers and monitor lizards. If you're interested
in aquaculture, prawn and fish farming is carried out in the park.
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