The Singapore Jurong Bird Park is the largest in Asia. It opened in 1971, and today the number of its inhabitants has reached five thousand. Among them are all kinds of birds with about 400 species. The park covers an area of ​​more than 20 hectares, and it imitates the habitats of birds from different continents and natural and climatic zones. Every year the park hosts about a million visitors

Gerald Darrell would surely have ardently approved how everything is arranged here . For the main task of the park creation the conservation of rare species . was created. To do this, conditions were created that were as close as possible to those , in which birds live in the wild . This idea fits perfectly into the modern trend of zoosadic organization by nature nature reserves . Visitors can admire the inhabitants of the park "live", very close, almost as if they met them somewhere in the from the avant of Central Africa or the rain forest of South America . But, no one can guarantee that you will see a particular bird in its place, in a cage next to the plate .

The breadth and diversity in Jurong amaze everyone's imagination . In the Waterfall Aviary zone near a waterfall 30 meters high with plants planted nearby hundreds of different species live about 600 small birds . Daily feeding sessions are held here, during which you can see if not all, then most of them . In Lory Loft there are nine Australian parrots-lory, the most outgoing of all the inhabitants of Jurong . Here you can make a lot of photos with parrots on your hands, shoulders and head, even if you do not treat them with specially given delicacy .

Next goes Jungle Jewels - juicy tropical forest with toucans and cardinal birds . At the Penguin Coast in the pond, Antarctic penguins scurry around with their relatives from Africa, and they can also be fed at certain times . Well, the two pearls of the park Is Flamingo Lake, an open space with a flock of breathtakingly bright flamingos, and Pelican Cove, where the world's largest collection of pelicans is assembled and a special underwater viewing gallery has been built, from where one can observe their fast-moving workshops for fish . And this is not all Jurong's thematic zones .

In addition to feeding sessions according to the schedule for different zones in the park, there are regularly organized entertainment programs for adults and children . There are even water play areas with swimming pools and slides . It is obvious that with such abundance and selection of opportunities to visit Jurong, it is better to lay in advance at least half a day, or even a whole . Places to have a snack and rest, it's enough . There is a great popularity with special dining entertainment - a buffet at the parrot company . At dinner as a souvenir you can buy a masterpiece by Picasso, a creatively gifted cockatoo who will draw something right in front of you .

You can move around the park either on your own or on a tramcar with a guide. A single Wildlife Reserves organization manages both Jurong and the Singapore Zoo, the River and Night Safari parks. Although they are quite far away territorially, a single Park-hopper ticket can visit all four once a month for a whole