Wysteria Blend
Monday, May 09, 2005
Sunny and Super at Avilon ZooAfter putting the Sunday Club outings to a halt for a week, we resumed with a bang last Saturday. A bigger group this time (Kuya Dondi, Kuya Ronnie, Ate Boom, Regina, Bam and I), we went to Avilon Zoo at Montalban, Rizal.
The ride going there was not very long. Just an hour without the traffic. Upon arrival, you pay an entrance and tour fee of P200, which motherly Ate Boom treated us all to. Since we arrived there at 12:00 we had lunch at their snack pavilion. You can buy food there (pretty reasonable prices for food that tastes ok) or opt to bring your own. The place is clean, so are the bathrooms.
At 1:00 we joined a two-hour walking tour of the whole zoo. We saw different kinds of birds, turtles, snakes, crocodiles. We saw a kind of bear called the sun bear that's from the family of Winnie the Pooh. We saw 3 shetland ponies, one you can pet. We got to carry an eagle, an owl, this other bird that looks snowy - don't know what it was. We saw a leopard trying to hunt for prey, an urangutan that appeared with Kuya Ronnie's hands through the glass and another kind of monkey that copied his head movements. We saw some really cute and chubby gerbils, a peacock with its huge white tail spread open trying to attract its mate, some kind of carnivorous fish that went wild when Kuya Dondi threw the raw chicken pieces inside, and we actually witnessed two tigers mating.
Check out some of the pics I took.
It's a bobcat. Cute!
See the leopard hunt for its prey.
Swimming ducks... maybe eating.
Current LSS: Grazing the Grass - Raven
