Birds | 2011

After quite a long time, we finally had time to revisit Jurong Bird Park. Reason being, Jakjak's grandparents are here again. Living on the other end of the island, it was not really practical to be going to the park often. That, and the tourist biased prices had been keeping us away from going. 

The first time we were here was with Jakjak's cousin Andrae and his parents. While we did enjoy our time at the park, it was more because we were like aliens that were seeing things for the first time. We were in awe when we visited back then. 

This time it was different. We already knew what to expect, plus, Jakjak's lolo is not really at his best walking (he had a stroke several years back). So we had to take things slow, which was actually how the park should be taken. If you do your best to reach the next live show, you miss out on actually observing how these birds live. You miss out on their songs, you miss out on their colors, you miss out on their poop. And honestly, it was less stressful this way. Of course, we only say this because we don't really mind not seeing everything the park has to offer in one go. It may be different if you are an actual tourist (case in point, our first visit).

Jakjak also really enjoyed himself this time around. Because we were not running around from one stage show to the next, we were able to look at things in a different light. We looked at eggs, and fossils, we listened to bird calls, we looked at pigeons up close and we smelled bird poop. And that was just half a day's worth of tripping. While I'm sure we could have done more if we had the whole day to spend, I reckon we would have been too tired to enjoy the other half of the trip. All in all, it was good. It was a good trip for everybody.