We bought a Zoo: a 3 Zoo comparison

Today we will be comparing three different zoos: Edmonton, Calgary and Taipei. I personally love zoos and will be visiting the UENO ZOO in Tokyo in May. I have visited several zoos and all of them thus far have been bette than the Edmonton Valley Zoo.

In high school I spent a few summers volunteering at the City of Edmonton Events and was throughly disappointed. There was hardly any animals in the exhibits and enclosures looked old and falling apart. (Poor animals =/)

I finally visited the Edmonton Zoo again... ( on their free day in September) 

They had a few more animals this time round, a cute wolf

some sort of lemur/ monkey

Lucy the super old elephant who paints. (her paintings are ridiculously expensive)

and also lamas. There were some other animals as well such as ground squirrels and other indoor exhibits. 

This was my outfit of the day a flowly high low dress in stripped blue and white with a tie back bra.


Now moving on to the  zoo in Taipei ...

They had such a cute gift shop and I bought this panda hat though I have had to a chance to wear it here in edmonton... people find it embarrassing.

they had more than one elephant

their key exhibit was their panda exhibit which had 2 pandas. They were very active, playing around. The zoo in Taipei is fairly inexpensive to go to, works out to be less than 4 dollars canadian a person. There are also lots of food places inside and far more exhibits than the one in Edmonton. It is also very easy to get to the zoo with a direct MRT line to it. 

These photos are from the Calgary Zoo :

They got their own elephant

some cute hippos

monkies of all sorts

awesome tiger enclosure

and peacocks everywhere, I got scared since they started chasing me.

Overall the best zoo out of the three would be the Taiwan one not only because of the panda exhibit and how big the zoo is but also because it was cheap and fun and you could spend a whole day there.