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The black jaguar is gorgeous. What a beautiful creature. The winking owl is cute!! How odd they didn't have anything open for purchase though. How do they expect to make extra money? And it was the weekend too.... very strange.
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Saturday 11 September – part four: fighting tigers!
Next came another highlight of the park for me, the tigers. I always love these creatures, but here you really could get up close and personal with them, as you can see from the photos. I was also lucky enough to capture them fighting, which was pretty neat.
More monkeys followed...
... and then it was another African savannah scene. While we were there, one of the huge cows let out what sounded like a belch, although it could have been a growl and that was it, the deer near it bolted away from it!
We rounded a corner and came across a vision – a sleeping lion, right by the window. So unusual again to get so close to these magnificent animals.
We got some more tiger views....
....and were even able to sneak a view of the water park next door. They do combined tickets to the water park, but with a pool at the villa, it wasn’t something that interested us, so we didn’t bother. :
More African savannah scenes followed, complete with Indian rhinos, which looked unlike any rhino we’d ever seen before. It was a bit freaky that, in some shots, you could see the skyscrapers of Benidorm behind them.
We sat and watched the monkeys flying around their enclosure for a while and commented on how few people we’d seen. We’d literally not seen another person since our first encounter with the tigers and that had been maybe 20 minutes ago. We figured maybe it was because some of the shows were now going on.
As we sat there, one of the costumed characters walked past, with a handler. I had to grab a photo, just so you could see how awful they were.
wow you really were able to get so close! That is so neat!
I love the pic of Mark "petting" the nice kittycat.
How nice of the park to let you keep your $.
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Now, THAT's close!!! I don't know, did they remove the tusk from the rino's nose, or did he just not have one?
Hmmmm... stores closed, no people around except a bird and handler... You guys didn't climb the fence and sneak in while it was closed, did you?.. huh? did you?
I love the up close photos of the tigers. They really have a lot of animals there. And that parrot is absolutely horrible...where's Mickey when you need him?
Great pictures of the tigers. They're my favorite animals. the picture of them fighting reminds me of my cats. they're always fighting and playing like that. Can't wait to see more.
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Now, THAT's close!!! I don't know, did they remove the tusk from the rino's nose, or did he just not have one?
Hmmmm... stores closed, no people around except a bird and handler... You guys didn't climb the fence and sneak in while it was closed, did you?.. huh? did you?
Hey, if only - that way, we could've saved ourselves the €50 entrance fee!
I wondered about that rhino too. I'm thinking his tusk was removed at some point from the look of it, although whether they did it or someone else did, I'm not sure....
Even your picture of the water park looks as if there's no one there. We already know the weather was warm enough to swim. How strange! That, or you really DID climb that fence as suggested....and found someone with a bad parrot costume to pose and make us all believe that was really the kind of characters a park would have roaming around!
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