Calling all adventurers and wildlife enthusiasts! Mandai Wildlife Reserve, Singapore’s premiere nature and wildlife destination consisting of several wildlife parks such as the Singapore Zoo and Night Safari, is set to launch the first phase of its fifth zoological park in March 2025.
Accessible from Mandai Wildlife WEST, Rainforest Wild Asia offers a unique set of experiences for visitors looking to embark on exciting outdoor adventures. Inspired by treks through rainforests, the new park offers various paths to explore, allowing guests to experience a one-of-a-kind immersive rainforest setting filled with a variety of wildlife and forest wonders both below and above ground.
“Our newest park celebrates the rainforests of our region, which are home to a vast array of natural wonders,” said Mike Barclay, Group CEO of Mandai Wildlife Group. “Rainforest Wild Asia allows guests to choose their level of adventure as they explore an immersive rainforest setting, whether through sedate universally designed walkways or high adrenaline scrambling paths and guided climbing adventures.”
The 13-hectare Rainforest Wild Asia features diverse layers from the verdant tree canopies to an exciting subterranean labyrinth of walk-through cave chambers that are designed to allow iconic animal species from the region such as tigers, sun bears, tapirs, and gregarious langurs, to roam freely through extensive habitats.
While the new attraction targets adventurers, Rainforest Wild Asia welcomes everyone to embark on rainforest explorations. Guests can venture through rugged forest trails scattered with fallen logs, boulders, streams, and bridges. For the adrenaline-seekers, there are harnessed experiences and guided tours offering high-element traverses across rock faces, freefall jumps, and challenging caving adventures.
Visiting families can be assured that the park also offers amenities and facilities that can make your stay comfortable including wide elevated walkways with sheltered rest stops that also ensure accessibility to all including guests with strollers and wheelchair users, providing opportunities for easy strolls to view diverse rainforest landscapes and animals. To recreate a realistic rainforest setting, around 7,000 Southeast Asian trees and shrubs have been planted to add to the existing protected patches of rainforest.
“This immersive design gives our guests the chance to witness how different animals thrive in distinct rainforest settings. Most importantly, we hope to create strong feelings of connection to nature and a renewed determination to cherish and protect our planet,” Mike added.
Flexible habitats will also be introduced at the park for the first time. You can catch animals like the red dholes and babirusas, which will be featured at various times of the day. The habits are designed to be dynamic and stimulating for the animals to encourage their natural behaviors, allowing visitors to observe and learn more about these wonderful creatures.
Rainforest Wild Asia will be home to 29 animal species, including the threatened François' langur and the Philippine spotted deer, which are both new to Singapore.
Park Highlights: Journey Through Southeast Asia’s Rainforest
Guests can enjoy the park’s multi-layered adventures across ten different zones, each featuring delightful treks and animal encounters among the trees and foliage.
One highlight is TheKarsts, which is the park’s most scenic backdrop featuring jagged limestone formations peeking through the canopy. From here, guests can enjoy views of primates swinging, leaping, and traversing the environment. Become a certified explorer as you maneuver across sheer cliffs through a Via Ferrata path under a guided tour.
Weave your way through the Forest Floor, climbing large logs or ducking below fallen trees before making your way to the Rock Cascade, Rainforest Wild Asia’s largest habitat and home to the majestic Malayan tigers. Witness these creatures as they show off their impressive power and agility while navigating through waterfalls, streams, rocky outcrops, and clusters of trees.
Meanwhile, The Canopy will give visitors a glimpse into life at the treetops and chance encounters with species like the Javan langur and red-shanked douc langur.
You can also dare to leap from 20m – the highest point of Rainforest Wild Asia – at Canopy Jump and feel the adrenaline of a free fall while taking in the stunning rainforest vistas from above. It’s definitely one experience you shouldn’t miss!
Want to go cave exploring? You can definitely do that here! The Cavern takes visitors on an awe-inspiring journey along subterranean walkways or if you’re looking for a more adventurous path, you can also seek out cave species such as racer snakes and giant black scorpions! The caves were inspired by the world-famous Mulu Caves in Sarawak, one of the largest and most intricate cave systems in Southeast Asia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To recreate this stunning zone, the design team scanned the rock features of Mulu Caves and faithfully mimicked the ancient rock formations through a collaboration with the Sarawak Forestry Department.
With this new wildlife park soon to open and another one underway — Rainforest Wild Africa, which is inspired by the diverse landscapes of the Afro-Tropical region and Madagascar, the Mandai Wildlife Reserve aims to become a world-leading wildlife and nature destination offering both recreational and educational opportunities that become irreplaceable memories and experiences for its visitors.
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