Fun Day Out At Taronga Zoo

The city of Sydney is famous for its Opera House, the beautiful Harbour Bridge and its booming beaches; it makes it hard to look outside the ‘city box’. Sometimes you have to look deeper outside a city to see real hidden gems always worth a fun day out. Step onto the ferry down at the Harbour and within 15 minutes you can step off into a world of the unknown, surrounding yourself with over 2,600 amazing animals divided into eight zoo geographic regions.

From the meerkats to the platypus, these animals are full of character and life, and are always happy to see new visitors in the zoo. This year, Taronga Zoo will be looking at the past 35 years of memories and how the zoo has created such a great place for its animals and for its visitors. Since the zoo opened in 1977, Cuddles the African Elephant has been a resident, what a trooper. Cuddles has seen the zoo evolve into the institution it is today, creating pleasurable and fun days out for people of all ages.

“The Zoo has achieved unbelievable things for the animal world over its 35 year history including releasing Przewalski’s Horse back into the wild in Mongolia, achieving the world’s first Black Rhino embryo via IVF, breeding the first Galapagos Tortoise hatchling in Australasia as well as many important breeding successes for critically endangered animals. The Zoo has also recently created a new free access area, which is the first of its kind in NSW and allows visitors to see Primates for free.”

Taronga Zoo is one of the best zoos in Sydney and has so many exciting opportunities for its visitors. The Taronga ‘Roar and Snore’ is a once in a lifetime experience. Sleeping under the stars in a zoo with Sydney’s best view on one side and a view of the animals on the other. In these tents you can never get out of bed on the ‘wrong side’, with the beds fully furnished with cuddly linen, this place is where dreams are made. Sleep and wake up next to the animals, feed the animals their breakfast and experience the zoo before everyone else. This exciting and fun zoo will unleash the animal in you.

There’s such a vast and busy schedule for the day, if only school had been this fun. From 9am you can attend the talks, feeds and shows with animals varying from the black rhino, meerkats, giraffes, elephants, tigers and much more. It’s a nonstop animal party. You don’t have to be an animal fan to have an absolute banger of a day out at Taronga Zoo.

Learn a lot, love a lot, smile a lot but just beware of the 3pm Spider talk, hakuna matata!

Check out www.taronga.org.au for all the information you need, and your chance to sponsor a little or a big friend. Please remember just how much Taronga zoo does for the environment and the conservation of these animals while also providing you with a fun and exciting experience at Sydney’s best zoo.

Visit www.taronga.org.uk to build your own personal visitors guide for the day and beat the queues by buying your tickets online.

By Frankie Salt