The Bio Park in Nagasaki Japan has got to be one of the coolest places I've ever been to.
It is basically a zoo where you get to go into all the animal enclosures and feed the animals. It sounds like a petting zoo, but it is so much more than just goats, in fact I don't remember there being goats at all.
First we saw Scarlett's favorite animal, the llama.
Next we saw Patagonian mara none of us really knew what these were or what to think about them.
Somewhere in the botanical garden was a sloth, but we never found it.
The lemurs roamed the place as they pleased and they were not afraid of people at all. I think it was the first time anyone in our family held a lemur.
We all got to feed and pet the flamingos. Check out the video at the end of Calista pretending to have food so they would come to her.
In Washington we had raccoons in the woods so it was different to see them and feed them at a zoo.
We even got to see a human. In fact this one was aggressive in getting the food, he ate almost all that I brought for lunch.
I thought the google translate of what the sign said was entertaining.
The monkeys were the main attraction. We had a blast feeding and holding them. They pretty much just jumped around on all of us trying to get food. It was so cool!
We saw a couple joeys with their mammas.
I love how the kids are all wearing hats. It was a huge struggle though, several of them were angry for me making them wear one. We had our family pictures that night and I did not want anyone sunburned from being outside all day.
If anyone comes to visit me, we will have to go here!
One great thing about living in a foreign country is that places aren't crowded on American holidays. Bob still gets them all off so we try to make sure and go somewhere that might be crowded on a weekend. On Memorial day we went to Zoorasia. This was our first real type of zoo I've seen here in Japan. There are a few other places we have been that seemed to happen to have a few animals in cages and they called themselves a zoo, but this was the first place that actually felt like a zoo to me.
I love all the man hole covers here.
Before we went in we bought our tickets Japanese style, or through a vending machine.
It was a decent size zoo. We spent most of the day there, we saw everything but we the kids were done by the end of it. It was a good size for a one day trip to the zoo.
We tried to hit a keeper talk like we always used to back in the states. It wasn't quite the same because of course everything was said in Japanese.
They had a couple play grounds throughout.
I love it when I see a mini toilet. They seem to be a ling at zoo's. I remember the San Diego Zoo had them as well. This one went up to about my ankles.
Some of the animals know where the real fun is.
We were lucky to catch a show with birds. Once again we had no idea what they were saying, but at the end we got to come up close and see them better. Scarlett was really happy because this is her favorite animal, the scarlet macaw. I thought it was crazy because I got to hear a bird speak Japanese. The keeper would say things and the bird spoke back. I was able to pick out konichiwa but that was about it.
