The Worlds Biggest Aquarium in Singapore Part 2

Welcome to Part 2! So we are still on our first day in Singapore and we are checking out the S.E.A. Aquarium, which is said to be the largest Aquarium in the world. Well I just LOVE Aquariums! (Warning: I took a lot of photos ... A LOT so this post is split in 3 parts and is a bit photo heavy).

Getting There

The Aquarium is located on Sentosa Island which is like a resort Island with all kinds of attractions on it.

There are three ways to get there:

Taxi
Monorail
Cable Car

We opted for the Monorail. It was the cheapest and for our purposes the Monorail station was closest to the Aquarium. A taxi is pricey as you have to pay a fee to go onto Sentosa Island (on top of the fare). The cable car station was a further walk away.

To get to the Monorail we took the Metro to HarbourFront station which sits under a shopping mall called VivoCity. In VivoCity you climb the escalators to the top floor where you can buy your tickets and board the Monorail. It takes about 5 minutes to get to the first station on Sentosa which is also closes to the Aquarium. If I remember correctly it was about $6 per ticket.

Back to the Aquarium!

So we have jut left the shark tank which you saw in Part 1. The next section of the aquarium is dedicated to species from the South China Sea, East Africa and the Red Sea. You walk through a long hallway that has lots of little tanks along the walls displaying the various species of fish from these different parts of the world.

I love how colourful they are and the patterns on some of these fish are really cool. I find it very relaxing to watch fish swimming around. Getting pictures in this place was proving a bit tricky. You know my tip about coming here early? Well we didn't, we got to the aquarium about an hour after it had opened and it was already pretty busy and people weren't being shy about shoving in to be right at the glass.

We had this one couple, and older couple, who were going through the exhibit at the same pace as us so at every tank we got to, they would be there too, pushing people aside so they could take selfies and the man would keep coughing a nasty loud spluttery cough onto people around him. It was so gross. So we hung back for a while to let them get further ahead of us when we got to this next room:

This place was awesome! The tank was huge! So big there's a person swimming around inside cleaning the place up.

She's holding a hose that sucks up all the dirt that collects on the bottom, but look how tiny she is compared to the tank.. it gives you a bit of a sense of scale.

So after pottering around here for a good 10 minutes we figured the annoying couple must be well ahead so we continued forward through the rest of the place. By this point we are at the Red Sea life.

Check it out, another diver cleaning a tank. This time there was a member of staff on the other side showing the diver which spots on the glass to clean.