Friday 23 July 2010

Away from Amman: A day at London Zoo

At least we had one day with really nice weather while we were in the UK! It happened to be the day we had decided to take Bibs to the zoo. We had a lovely day out and Bibs adored all the animals. London zoo is located in Regent's park, easily accessible by car or by public transport (with a little walk). We parked our car at the zoo car park which was £12.50 and bought the entrance tickets there: £18 +donation per adult - so not exactly a cheap day out... You can also buy your tickets online, not a bad idea if it's busy there can be quite a queue.

It was so nice to see a canal, big very green trees. The canal cuts the zoo in two.


In the center of the park you have this large plaza with restaurants, shops.


The zoo runs a program "keeper for a day" - it costs a small fortune, £270, but for those who love animals it a fab gift. You get to feed some animals (incl. the big cats!). Am sure it is an unbelievable experience.

There is a butterfly garden, where they fly around freely. Very beautiful.

That one is a double butterfly

And this one is enormous. So big it looked unreal!

There is also a monkey garden, where you can walk and the monkeys are in the trees and on the ropes around you! I would just add that they are a bit more afraid that some monkeys I met in Langkawi, Malaysia during our honeymoon.

@ London Zoo
In the mangrove, Langkawi, Malaysia

There is no elephant at the zoo in London, so these are Bibs' top 2 favorites: the Gorilla and the Giraffe!

2 comments:

Elisa said...

I bet it was a treat to see all those trees, it so green. Look at those butterflies they are so pretty. they remind me of a park in colorado where they had a butterfly park as well. such beautiful creatures aren't they? I like the monkey pictures.

Unknown said...

Oh it definetely was, i have to admit that I miss the grass, the trees :) I have always loved butterflies - when I was kid my grandad's neighbour had a "butterfly-tree" in his garden and always tons of butterflies, i loved to go there and try to catch them (and release them as well of course!)

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