Have you ever held binturong on your hands? Or maybe they touched hippo? Fed a flock of flamingos? If not, you are definitely in Khao Kheo! This is probably the most interesting attraction in Pattaya, one of the oldest and largest zoos in Thailand.
The content of the article
- 1 Khao Kheo Zoo
- 2 ticket price
- 3 work time
- 4 How to get there
- 5 On the map
Zoo Khao Kheo
The Khao Kheo Zoo began with the expansion of the royal zoo Dusit in Bangkok, when some of the animals were relocated to the place where now is Khao Kheo. Here lives about 8 thousand individuals and more than 300 types of animals. Of course, the scale of the zoo is amazing. Then it’s not easy to look at others easier. But the most The main thing that I like about Asian zoos is that practically no traditional cells.
Many animals can be hand-fed and touched, so the zoo and called contact. And this is one of the main Khao Kheo chips. Everything animals live in conditions as close as possible to the natural. Not dangerous to humans, such as deer, walking around the lawns freely, they can be ironed. Other, dangerous and predatory animals, live as it were on islets surrounded by a concrete moat with water, so they could not jump over it.
Large animals, like rhinos and giraffes, go for a low hedge, come close to her and they can be fed and touched. This is just amazing! And unusual. In general, animal species here a lot, and the territory of the zoo is so extensive that even a day and by car you can hardly see absolutely everything. In this zoo you can come every year and every time everyone will be delighted, and children and adults.
At the entrance to the zoo, you can see a number of traders selling “food kits” for animal feed. They are not expensive, come in different sizes and include grass, string beans, bananas, corn and carrot. You can, in principle, and your food for feeding animals grab, no one will pay attention to it. Sachets with food are smaller, bigger and quite large.
Price for a package of 20, 50 and 100 baht. Since the feeding of animals is The main entertainment of Khao Kheo is to take food for them. Besides baskets at the entrance there is an opportunity to buy food directly from enclosures with animals in the territory, costs from 10 to 50 baht for portion.
Entry to the zoo
Animal feed trays
Map of Khao Kheo Zoo
You can pet deer
Penguin enclosure
Contact Zoo Khao Kheo
Medvekot binturong
At the zoo you need to allocate at least 3-4 hours. Depends on your speed and desire to see everything, the place is so interesting that you can spend the whole day there. Near to the entrance part of the park is more lively, there are many visitors. More distant the part is more quiet and with large spaces. Maybe not all there arrive and walk there far. But there is little, part The aviary stands abandoned.
Thought so that you can drive a car / bike around the zoo, because the territory is huge and on foot to overcome it pretty hard. Through the entire zoo, winding, leads one main the road ending in the same place where it began. For those, who without transport or does not want to drive his car, there is option to take a golf cart. Convenient thing, small and nimble. Golf cars are for two people and four. They cost order 350 baht per hour, but starting from the third hour the price is lower.
Golfcar can be taken on bail and subject to availability. driver’s license, the Russian law is also suitable. If a You are going with an organized tour, you will be on the territory of the zoo to carry on a long multi-seat electric car.
I rode a normal car, too, without any problems. Everywhere there is parking lot. And in the car for a while you rest from the heat under air conditioning (golf carts only wind). You can also buy place in the tour bus, he drives through the whole zoo, stopping at each point for a while. But I think, still better on individual transport, it’s more convenient not adapt and be where you want and how much you want.
I arrived in the middle of the day, this is the thick point. Perhaps therefore some animals hid somewhere in the shade, some cells in general seemed empty. It may be better to visit the zoo in the second half a day when the heat subsides.
In addition to animals kept in the zoo, come to the territory feed wild monkeys from the forest. It is better not to feed them, because they flock and can attack to take away food. Generally they quite aggressive and all the guides, as well as employees of the zoo warn visitors to keep away from wild monkeys away. On the territory there are even signs prohibiting feeding wild monkeys.
Wild monkey on the territory of the zoo
You can feed the rhinos
Khao Kheo Zoo in Pattaya
Khao Kheo Open Zoo
The whole vast territory of the zoo in more than 800 hectares divided into thematic zones: savanna, deer, birds, butterfly garden, all species of the cat family, monkeys, penguins, sea animals and etc. In the Savannah area you can see African animals: zebras, Impalas, giraffes, rhinos – Almost everyone can feed. It is especially interesting to feed and touch giraffes. Still, it’s big animal and rarely where it can be seen so closely. In the Wild Zone Cats can be viewed on more than 40 species of animals of the family. felines that live in different conditions, from the desert to the mountain terrain
Several times a day, various shows are held on site. animals. These are feeding of seal, Indian beak (that is, birds), bathing elephants (you can look through the clear glass on the underwater part of the pool where the elephant swims), the parade of penguins, trained animals with a “talent show” and a show that is usually bring organized groups – Journey to the jungle. It staged so that the animals act themselves without animal trainers, performing their roles as per notes and acting as coordinated clockwork. This show involves tigers, including white, lions, other predators, binturongs, birds, otters.
Besides the fact that animals in Khao Kheo can be watched, fed, ironing, with some of them you can still be photographed, holding them in hand. In several places offer to take pictures with huge shaggy binturong. This is not a dangerous animal, looks like something like a medvekot: very fluffy and with a cute little face.
At the exit of the show Journey to the jungle offer take a picture with a big chimpanzee monkey, a parrot and by others. Naturally, all this for a fee. Also if desired on the territory you can ride on an elephant.
Tapir is resting
Since the territory is very large and tourists spend here. a lot of time, almost a whole day, there is everything you need from infrastructure: toilets, cafes, small trays with drinks and a meal.
Khao Kheo is not only a tourist attraction, it’s also here are studying animals, and in the territory there is a hotel where you can stop to penetrate deeper life wild of nature.
Ticket price
Ticket price: 300 baht per adult and child, 50 baht per car. Children up to 90 cm free. Group of 5 people discount.
Life hacking! Although the cost for such a good zoo and small, but you can buy tickets even cheaper: 200 baht per adult and 140 baht per child (height 90-135 cm). Half a child prices are obtained.
Everything is done through Klook. Great site where tickets are always sold at a discount. Pay online about 1 day before trips, you receive an e-mail voucher. It must be shown at the checkout with screen phone.
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Alternatively, you can take a tour if you do not have your own rented bike or car. Cost of organized tour from 600-900 baht per adult. Some agencies on the way back they will deliver spices for shopping in the garden or something similar to repel the cost.
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Working hours
Hours of the zoo: from 9 to 18 hours.
Night Safari: from 18 to 20 hours, held in a separate area, where you can watch the life of animals more active in the dark days.
Show Journey to the Jungle (Journey to the Jungle) is about half an hour, start time: 11:00 13:10 15:10; ticket for it if you arrived independently, costs 100 baht per adult and 50 for baby
Animals Show starts at 10:15, 12:15, 14:15 and 16:00. Show penguins are held twice a day.
It is better to clarify the current time of various shows on the spot, at the entrance to the zoo. There you can also see a map of Khao Kheo with zones.
How to get there
The zoo is located 45 km from Pattaya, in the direction of the city Siracha and Bangkok By car from Pattaya you can get there in 40-60 minutes. Public transportation in Khao Kheo does not run, therefore either own / rented transport (just keep in mind that the bike driving on the highway is not quite comfortable), or a taxi. If you wish, you can still get by tuk-tuk to the city of Siracha, it is closer to the zoo. BUT then take a taxi from there.
But the easiest way, if you don’t have your own transport, is to take organized tour in one of the travel agencies of Pattaya. With the tour you you will see a little less than yourself, having stayed there all day (if you are enough). But the tour includes a transfer from the hotel and back that it turns out more convenient and maybe even more profitable than independently pay for a taxi.
On the map
P.S. Write your feedback on the zoo. Maybe I do not know what, but it so far the best zoo I’ve ever seen. More just enjoyed driving the car, very comfortable and part animals directly from the window of the car can be seen.
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