This weekend we went on a family mini vacation to Calgary and Banff. Saturday we made the usual trip to the Calgary Zoo and as always it was lots of fun. It was a pretty pricey entry at $71 for our whole family, but definitely delivers value for money.
The new attraction at the zoo is the Penguin exhibit, right at the entrance of the zoo. It is pretty impressive, there are penguins outside the exhibit playing you can see close up. After lining up you can walk through a chilled habitat with several types of penguins playing. The most impressive aspect of the exhibit is how close you can get to the penguins, literally almost touching distance. I took one video of the penguins diving into the water, pretty cool.
The rest of the usual areas of the zoo are also still great, the Dinosaur area which contains realistic Dinosaur statues, the Canadian Wilderness with Canadian animals, and areas for Africa, South America, and Asia. The Gorilla habitat was very cool as was seeing how huge the hippos were close up.
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| Hippo Under Water |
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| T Rex in the Dinosaur Area |
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| Gorilla Habitat |
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