The zoo!
One of my goals for the summer is to go to all the places I wanted to go and didn’t last semester. The zoo is one of those places.
The zoo is impressive, mainly for it’s architecture and quantity of animals (though I think this is also a negative since many of the animals don’t have enough space). A lot of the buildings are very old and beautiful, from around the beginning of the century. My favorite is the elephant’s area which has a shed decorated with carved Indian figures. The condor’s area was also impressive- a gigantic wrought iron cage two stories high.
And the animals. There were merecats, a white tiger, lions, sea lions, monkeys of all types, fish of Argentina, polar bears, parakeets, bison, parrots, lemurs, owls, water buffalo, etc.
One of my favorite scenes was with the white tiger. It tentatively went into the pool in its cage and began swimming. It fiddled around in the water until it found a plastic barrel that it started to chew.
There are wild rabbit/gazelle/horse creatures and large swimming rats that walk around freely throughout the zoo. You can even feed them!
It was overwhelming. I bought a passport to see special exhibits, but it isn’t necessary.
