Well, we meet again for the Part 2 of our journey in the National Zoo during the Labour Day. There was some interesting event that took place just as we neared one of the animals there. I believe its a species of cow with the long horns. Can't really recall the name. A calf was just born and the zoo keeper transferred the calf to a separate cage just beside the mother. Not so sure why they did that but the mother was damn pissed of with the zoo keeper and was it started "shouting" (not sure what they call it) and created a tensed moment there. We didn't stay there for long to know how the story ended, though.

There is one bird which was not in the cage and was eating papaya near some bushes. This bird was not afraid at all as we closed up to it and even when I moved my camera close to it to get a macro shot, it still did not fly away from us. Perhaps, it was so used to humans there that it didn't even care. :P

Towards the end of the journey, my son got a bit tired but was still energetic as we saw the elephants. Elephants was the last animal there as we got nearer to the Exit. Huge and Beautiful. That's what I can describe about the elephants.

As we were about to leave the Zoo, I bought my son a giraffe balloon and he was very happy playing with it. :P

Had to wait at the long queue again as it was quite packed at the car park exit. Need to pay the parking fees before we exit. Overall the whole journey was exciting and enjoyable.

One thing to comment is, get your own water bottles before you go as the drinks there are damn expensive. Canned drinks are priced at RM2.50 at the vending machines and RM3.50 at one of the stalls there...And normally you can buy a 1.5l bottle for RM3.00 at normal shops outside... The Zoo management should have some brains to price the foods and drinks there at an affordable price..

Enjoys the remaining of the photos here :

A Journey in National Zoo (Part 2)

Checkout the video of a Hippopotamus entering the pond to cool down itself.



Have you guys visited the National Zoo recently? What do you think about about the animals here or about the price of the food sold here? Is it reasonable?
Please comment below.

It was a fine Monday early afternoon when we arrived at the entrance of the National Zoo and we had to make one big turn to find a parking lot there. The reason?? It was a public holiday due to Labour Day which was carry forwarded to 2nd May (1st May falls on a Sunday). And to make it worse, we had to wait at entrance for at least 10 minutes as the whole parking was almost full. What a way to begin the journey :P Anyway, once we were in the parking lot managed to find a parking lot quite ealisy.Thank God!

Entrance fees was RM20 for adults with MyKad and free from my son who is just 2 years old. It was not crowded at the ticket counter and managed to get the tickets instantly However, we struggled for a while at the entrance to find a nice cap for my son as it was very hot that day! A lot of choices there and we settled for an orange Zoo Negara cap instead of all those animal caps which we doubt would make him wear if we go to other places. Suprisingly, he wore the cap throughout the whole journey as normally he does not like to wear cap.

We chose to walk instead of using the train or whatever you call it. You know, exercise laa at least once or twice a year.. :P FYI, as a history lesson for all, this is only the second time I am visiting the zoo and I am now 31 years old!! The first time was in 1992! WOW!! A gap of 19 years!! hehehe...

And the zoo was huge and we managed to visit most of the places there except for the Butterfly farm inside(separate charge of RM5). My son was pretty much excited and he was running everywhere and and had to force him to hold our hand for his safety reasons. His first visit to a zoo was when he was 1 year old in Taiping Zoo and at that time he was not very keen to look at the animals except for few of them. But this time was different.

The first animal we saw was a few different species of monkeys. The funny part was there was one smart family that was feeding some peanuts to the monkeys and the father told them that they should not feed the animals there and then he himself started to feed them. He kept on repeating the same thing while saying that they should not feed them. Too bad that I did not see any zoo keepers there if not would have complained to them.

It turned out to be quite an interesting journey as we pass through each of the animal though some of the animals were just lazing around perhaps due to the hot weather. Or maybe they were plain bored staying in the zoo and want to go back to the nature. Who knows? One lesson I learnt from this journey is to get a new lens ASAP. The kit lens is not enough to zoom far to capture the animals quite far from us especially the tigers and lions. Well, forget about the lion as it was just sleeping when we were there.

Unifi!! When my area will be covered??? Still waiting for you......
(Update : I already upgraded to Unifi in December 2011 and so far no complaints about it)

Ok, see you guys soon in my next post..till then, enjoy the photos below :