Battersea Park Zoo
Making the most of the nice weather and Adrian's last day of paternity leave, we went to Battersea Park Zoo, which has been recommended to us by a few people now.We managed to get everyone ready and out the house in only an hour and a half - a record so far. I'd expected some kind of little petting farm yard and was slightly alarmed to realise that it was going to cost £17.50 for us all to get in. But don't let this put you off - the zoo is brilliant! It has monkeys, meerkats, lemurs, emus, butterflies and peacocks as well as the usual farm animals. We spent a happy two hours wondering round - Freyja remarking on how everything was 'lovely' and 'beautiful'.
The meerkats enclosure has a tunnel you can go down leading to a bubble which pops up into their enclosure so you can get a close up view - or just amuse everyone else who is watching:
There are loads of fun things to keep everyone amused - big footprints and games printed on the ground, a great playground, tractors to sit on and diggers to try out:
It was a far more successful trip than the one we made to London Zoo at the end of last year. I think the scale of it and the mixture of animals and 'fun stuff' was more appropriate for a 2 year old. Let's face it, as exciting as all these animals are, you just can't beat a super-speedy tunnel slide.
It's a big thumbs up for Battersea Park Zoo - we will definitely be returning.
posted by solveig @ 8:33 PM
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It is such a great place (I think I was one of the people who said about it around the London Zoo time).
Katherine's parents couldn't belive they were taking her to a "petting" zoo "at her age"!!!
We all really loved it.
I wish I could go on super speedy slides :(
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