Entrance to the Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney.
Sydney Zoo, known locally as Taronga Park Zoo, features exotic Australian animals, such as the Platypus, Kangaroo, Wallaby, Emu, Dingo, Wombat and Koala.
The zoo has a wide variety of native Australian birds and parrots, all kinds of reptiles, highly-venomous Australian snakes and highly-poisonous Australian spiders, such as the deadly Sydney funnel-web and the Redback spider — a close cousin to the Black Widow spider.
But it’s not just Aussie animals at Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo. This Sydney zoo has more than 2,000 different creatures from around the the globe, including lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants and giraffes.
All the enclosures at Taronga Park Zoo have been made to imitate the natural environment of the animals on display. Not only does this give the creatures greater freedom, but you get to experience them in something very close to to their natural habitat in the wild.
Taronga Park Zoo, (or Sydney Zoo), is at Bradleys Head Road, Mosman. That’s a posh suburb on the north side of the Sydney Harbour.
The best way to get to Taronga Park Zoo is by ferry from Wharf 2 at Circular Quay, Sydney. The trip across the harbor takes less than 15 minutes.
Two endangered Tasmanian Devil joeys (pups) born at the zoo.
You can also get to and from the zoo by public bus from the Wynyard bus terminus in York Street. It’s only one train stop or a short walk from Circular quay. And once you get to your destination, you’ll find the bus stops just outside the Taronga Zoo’s main gate.
Of course you can go by car to Taronga Park Zoo as well, but then you’ll have to pay extra for parking. It has room there for 500 cars.
Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo is open every day between 9am and 7pm, including Christmas Day. The zoo has wheelchair hire for disabled visitors. It also has stroller hire for parents with small children. There are information sheets in various language for non-English speakers, hot and cold food outlets and animal presentations.
Phone 02 9969-2777 for details.
Picture Credits: Image (left) by Getty Images via @daylife. Also from Wikipedia (above).
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