A Trip to the Zoo

Cik Liza..eh, silap Pn. Liza has requested an entry of our trip to Frankfurt Zoo on last Saturday. Seriously, I want to blog about it much earlier because there were so much to tell, but I have no time...ntah apa2 la makcik sorang ni sibuk! But indeed I am busy.....with my daily chores, with cik HB, with kids, with friends, even my time with FB has been reduced (but never forget to check out my Barn Buddy and Farm Town business every day...hehehe). The thing is, just when I want to start blogging, there will always be interruption...someone wants to pee, the other wants water...bla, bla, bla...and that, spoils my mood to write.

Back to the zoo trip, we went there along with several friends; Liza, Mat, Pak An and Zul. Frankfurt Zoo is easily accessible by public transport; from Frankfurt Am Main Hauptbahnhof just take U-Bahn (U7) or tram (no.11). We arrived there at 11am, I was surprised to see there were not many people at the entrance because back in Malaysia, at this hour at Zoo Negara or Zoo Melaka, there would be a huge flock of visitors queuing at the entrance.

We started our zoo tour at the tigers house but were disappointed to see that all cages were empty. Then we moved to the animals-of-nightlife house which has quite a large collection of animals.

Coming out from there, we entered the aqua species & reptiles collection house. Nice collection of animal species, I would say. By then it was already mid-afternoon and everybody was hungry for lunch. So we looked for a place to have a picnic as everybody bought their share of lunch foods. I brought ayam masak madu and cucur udang, Liza with white rice, mixed vege and sandwich, and Zul had cooked daging masak kurma. Luckily we found this picnic table at a secluded area. The thing was, since we had this seemed-to-be a big feast and eating with fingers, we drew some attention from the zoo visitors. Other visitors seemed to be eating only snacks like pizza or wurst (German´s famous sausage), and here we were eating a complete meal of heavy lunch...hehehe. This is one thing about being Malays, no?

Our lunch

After lunch, we toured around to see giraffes, hippo...well, long list to name each but elephant was no where in sight. We later found out, there was no elephant at this zoo....I thought elephant is one of the must-have zoo animals.

A family of Bonobos. Cari kutu activity eh?

Hippos basking under the sun

Okapi...what a unique species

There was this dramatic incident happened while we were in the zoo but I´m not allowed to talk about it. Just to say that, it was one bad experience and taught us a great lesson.

Anyway, I would say this Frankfurt Zoo is worth a visit. It´s not as big as Zoo Negara but the collection of animals there is quite impressive.

And we are looking forward to the next zoo trip.....Opel Zoo.