Thames 3rd Birthday

London Zoo

The London Zoo in Regents Park is an astonishing £17.50 entry fee, per adult. A child aged 3 -5 £13.50. A discretionary £1.60 donation per person is added and car parking is £11.00. For the average family of four thats £79.40 to get into the zoo. This is the off-peak rate, it goes up in summer. Lions and tigers and prices Oh my!

Western Lowland Gorillas

London Zoo is “bringing down the bars” Theres no cages. Its all glass. You can get incredible close and it feels like theres nothing between you and Bobby, the biggest Gorilla of them all, 600 pounds of him. Born in the wild he still loves to beat his chest and mate.

Gorilla Kingdom is the flagship exhibit

You actually go into the monkey enclosure and walk through it. No glass at all! Rather perplexing after the carnage at Longleat Safari Park.

black capped squirrel monkey

But these little guys are no trouble at all, you are advised to keep fingers close to your body.
Theres about 20 of them scampering around. I feed em a couple of Farley's rusks.

kiddies zoo

Infact you can walk into most of the "exhibits". Not the lions and tigers of course. The poor lions haven't got used to the glass yet and charge at it roaring.

bugs life

Its exhausting chasing after Thames, looking at the animals. 4PM we call it a day. Didn't see half the zoo. Will have to come back another day. Gulp.