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台北市動物園 (Taipei Zoo)

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台北市動物園 (Taipei Zoo)
No. 30, Sec. 2, Xinguang Rd., Wenshan District, Taipei 11656, Taiwan
886 (02) 29382300 ext. 630

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Whenever I travel, I always look for a famous zoo of the place.  This is why we made sure that Taipei Zoo is part of our itinerary.

I find it so cool that we can even use our Taipei Metro ticket to enter the place.  Entrance fee is at 60NT while children between 6-12 years of age, students, military & police officers & low-income families can get in at 30NT.

We just rode the Taipei Metro and while we walked towards the entrance, I noticed that the floor has marks of footprints from animals (similar to what hollywood has on their streets wherein hollywood stars have their names printed on the streets).

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Since we have limited time due to a plan to go to some other places that day (& my aunt only wanted to see the panda), we were only able to visit some parts of the zoo.  Still, I enjoyed my stay at Taipei Zoo!  I wish we had more time though..

Here are the display areas we visited:

  • Panda House
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me wearing the panda hat at the souvenir store.

This is the best area that the zoo has since ofcourse Panda is the most popular animal in China.  We lined up just to be able to see 2 cute pandas and have limited time to look and take pictures of them coz obviously there are lots of people waiting for their turn.

The 1st panda is sleeping!!! And he really didn’t care that hundreds of people lined up to see him! hahaha I took a video of him sleeping until the end of my turn, he was still sleeping.  Cuteness!

The 2nd panda is eating!!! Total cuteness, he was munching on the grass like he was enjoying it soooo much!  You better see this 🙂

  • Koala House
Another popular area in the zoo.  Located near the Panda House, the Koalas are brought in from Australia.  We were able to see “Patrick” the Koala.  He was just curled up on the tree though so wasn’t able to see his face clearly but nevertheless, still a nice sight to see 🙂

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  • Amphibian & Reptile House
One of the bigger indoor display areas in the zoo.  It houses over 90 species of amphibians & reptiles.  So many different species of each animal (snakes, turtles, iguanas, frogs, etc).

I saw several species & took pictures of them:
Green Tree Python

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Double-crested Basilisk

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Iguana – seems like the animals really enjoy eating hehehe!  I find this uber-cute!

Turtles – several kinds of turtles in the area. It’s just funny to see them doing different things. I took a video of turtles walking around, turtles eating even (EVEN!) turtles making love! ahahahaha

  • African Animal Area
6-hectared area, we were able just to glance as my family wanted to leave the zoo already.  They stayed a lil while coz they know I wanted to check out the other areas.  I wasn’t able to see the monkeys & the giraffe but I was able to see the elephant for quite a while.

Here is the elephant we saw walking around his area hehehe 😛

If ever I get the chance to visit the place again, I’ll visit the other areas like Formosan Animal Area, Fern Garden, Insect Valley, Children’s Zoo, Asian Tropical Rainforest Animal Area, Water Garden, Australian Animal Area, Desert Animal Area, Bird World, Temperate Zone Animal Area, Wetland Park, Insectarium, Education Center, Conservation Corridor, Children’s Theater, Xinguang Special Exhibit House, Nocturnal Animal House, Cool Energy Conservation House & Penguin House.
This is a must-go if you’re in Taipei.  The rest of our pictures can be found here.

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  1. Cocoy says

    Roch, Been waiting for this post for awhile. Panda is awesome. Sleeping panda!! going to point it to my friend who loves pandas. The turtle section, =))! apt description: "turtles making love" 😛 The elephant seem too thin. Maybe they were not feeding him properly.

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  2. Cocoy says

    Roch,

    Been waiting for this post for awhile. Panda is awesome. Sleeping panda!! going to point it to my friend who loves pandas.

    The turtle section, =))! apt description: "turtles making love" 😛

    The elephant seem too thin. Maybe they were not feeding him properly.

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  6. rochellesychua says

    Cocoy, hhahaaha it was the 1st time that I saw 2 turtles having intercourse! ahhaa eye-opener lolz!

    Mich, so cute noh? ahhaha

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