World"s biggest aquarium opens in Singapore

The River Safari theme park opens today in Singapore

The world’s largest freshwater aquarium has opened to the public at the nature themed River Safari park in Singapore. The aquarium seeks to highlight the wealth of species that live in the Amazon River of South America. Exhibits include manatees that have been moved to the aquarium from their previous home at Singapore Zoo. The new aquarium is 4 times larger than their previous home.

The new aquarium is found the River Safari’s Amazon Flooded Forest. The River Safari park is a nature attraction that seeks to educate people about the great rivers of the world. At a cost of over USD 160 million the attraction opened to the public today. The park covers 12-hectare and features animals from eight major river systems of the world, including the Mekong River, Amazon River, the Congo, the Ganges and the Mississippi.

The River Safari is the newest addition to the Wildlife Reserves Singapore’s portfolio of parks, which includes the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and Jurong Bird Park. It will be open daily from 9.00am to 6.00pm and is certain to become one the world’s big tourist attractions once all parts of the park has been opened.

The new freshwater aquarium which measures 2,000 cubic meters and has a viewing area measuring 22 meters by 4 meters  is found in the city which also has the largest salt-water aquarium which opened last year.

Today’s opening of the park will see parts of the park open to the public but the full park will not open until later this year. The river boat ride which will become one of the main attractions is still being finalised and will not open until later this year.

The entry tickets are very reasonable priced at about £20 for adults (about £15.00 during the soft opening with restricted exhibits) and about £15.00 for children under 12.

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World"s biggest aquarium opens in Singapore