Written by husband⦠Ben. A foodie, coffee obsessed, ex-smoking, ex-drinking and Ridgeback loving Dad. Who is also seriously into his fitness. You can find him on the blog most Sundays.
The zoo focuses on endangered species and, for a relatively small surface area, packs in rather a lot. Pricing for the zoo is around 15 euros for adult entry which is reasonable. Due to the overhead of feeding animals and the staffing requirements, zoos are never cheap entertainment. For that, though we got a morning of entertainment ambling round, followed by lunch in the small but functional cafe. In previous years it was more freeform which made it more difficult to plan the route around.
The selection of animals is really excellent. My personal favourite was the leopard but I also enjoyed the various apes. The star of the show is always the red panda and during our last visit that was no exception. It had been sleeping when we first visited leading to a very disappointed daughter, however as we returned it was fully visible prowling around its enclosure.
As my son is a 5-year-old boy his appreciation of animals has a direct correlation to how dangerous they are. To that end, he was very impressed with the crocodile but even more so with the pythons.
If there was one area of the zoo that left me wanting a bit more it was probably the dangerous, slimy, creepy crawly section. Though there is a small enclosure with the aforementioned crocodiles and snakes, this was not very large.
