Sungei Buloh Nature Park

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.