A trip to the SHENZHEN ZOO

Last week we took the family to the Shenzhen Safari Park. The kids enjoyed the various animal shows. Destiny even made a new friend.  


 We had hopes of feeding and holding the baby tigers but missed it. This is apparently the only zoo in the world with Tygons and Ligers (that would be a male tiger with a female lion and a male lion with a female tiger). It made for an interesting species. Sorry, no photos came out. 

 We watched a few other shows. One included bears walking on their hind legs in dresses, monkey and bears riding bikes, elephants dancing, dancers with snakes, trick horseback riders, pigs jumping from third story buildings into a pond, ostrich races and so much more! There was even a bear riding a motorbike on a tight rope the length of a football field with a lady dangling on a swing from underneath (no net!).  Apparently they don't have the same animal protection laws in China!

We did some extra curricular activities too.  Destiny missed being on a horse and got to ride a horse around the race track.  We also got to expreience what a gerbil's life is like.  We climbed inside these clear cyclinders out on a lake and had to run (like on a tread-wheel) to make it move. It was a lot of fun and very exhausting!