A VISIT TO PAIRI DAIZA A FAMOUS ANIMAL PARK IN BELGIUM

On Saturday I went with two friends to the best animal park in Europe called Pairi Daiza. The history and above all you can see  probably all animals which this time I missed because the park had changed.  You can find  the link to my post here.

We started with the little train to see a maximum of animals and rest our feet for more walking through the park. Unfortunately we were not lucky at all. Not only the ride took only 15 min, but we didn't see a lot of animals, I suppose that after breakfast they just went back to sleep !

Not only the animals had a lot of space, but apparently now also the cars ! Honestly I have never seen such a huge parking, for all kind of cars and lots of coaches !

This was the entrance, it was 10 am. We all had to wear a mask, so that the elephants and other critters couldn't get the Corona virus.
 

  

This should help us to find our way to the Pandas which are the most important animal in the park.

One of the restaurants which was still closed, after all it was far too early

 

Unfortunately I have no idea which animal has the honor that its space has a watch tower, which looked like a Dutch wind mill without the wings !

The trash bin looked a bit dangerous, hopefully people threw their dirt in them anyway !

 

 

A plaque confirmed where you were

Here my two friends waited for the train and studied where we should go after the tour. Unfortunately we were all more used to GPS and not to maps, That's probably why we missed all the animals.

We had been the first, 10 min later the queue became long and longer

The little steam locomotive looked very cute. It was an original one from 18 hundred something and had been imported from Germany.

 The flamengos could watch the train loaded with tourists the whole day !

At the first glance I saw a fainted kangaroo laying in a corner

But then zooming with my camera I discovered a little group who held a meeting

Besides the animals laying on the grass I didn't see anything.

Meanwhile the restaurants had opened

withouth any doubt this must be a very old tree. Sitting in the train it was impossible to read what it was

 

 

I wanted to take a picture through the window, but  realized that whatever animal lived here, they must all be sleeping somewhere inside.

 A miracle we saw elephants ! Fortunately they are big animals otherwise we wouldn't have seen them !

and that's all we saw from our little train !

 

From far we could see the young lady feeding the little penguins ! Each one got a fish and then waggled away

Another invisible animal or animals !  

 

We were hungry and finally could eat a Pizza here !

We even saw guinea pigs, nearly the same my grandson has at home !

The cute pandas I didn't see, My feet were on strike. But Myriam the youngest one climbed up again from where we just had come, but missed the indication to the pandas. It was the mum  with her two year old toddlers, first panda which had two babies in captivity ! Still having Chinese personal and doctors ! Here they did their best to amuse the spectators !

 

I was less lucky, each time when I finally had my camera ready to shoot, I got the hindquarters !

 

This was the last view I had from Pairi Daiza, although I hadn't seen that much, we all were very happy with our day. We had a lot of fun !

 

see also the post below ....

 

 

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