Welcome to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

Time to play catch up...

On April 19th we took a day trip to the Guangzhou Safari Park!

There are two important things you need to know about this zoo/safari park:

1. You can ride elephants and
2. You can feed animals

So we were all pretty stoked to go.

This place is HUGE, so we left around 7:30am in order to have sufficient time. At least that's what we thought...

Our typical bus luck meant they were slow that day and then our train ended up not leaving until around 10. And then the metro was a mess. So overall it took us about 4 hours to get to the park.

Once we got there the first thing on our list was to find the baby tiger available for feeding. We found him pretty quick, but sadly he was on rest and not available to feed or take pictures with.

There were so many baby tigers and they
were all adorable!

The next stop was naturally finding the elephants to ride! (Sorry it took so long mom)

Then we looked around at the more normal animals- monkeys, rhinos, birds, giraffes, and tigers.

And finally, since it's China there were pandas! And quite a few of them.

Once we'd looked at all the cute animals we went and watched the tiger show. It was pretty cool and at one point Kayryn got to play tug-of-war with a tiger :)

Even after spending most of the day there we still didn't see everything there is to see. But we had to get home, so we braved the metro again. There was legit traffic control to manage the sheer number of people all trying to go the same way. It took forever and we were glad to get home.