Visiting Auckland Zoo

To get a break before the exam period kicks in, we went to Auckland Zoo today. Auckland Zoo is located just west of Downtown Auckland in the beautiful Western Springs Reserve. The zoo is quite big, with all sorts of animals (and lots and lots of noisy kids;). They have a nice-price-policy for students - it only costed us NOK60 to get in. If you pay NOK60 to enter a Norwegian zoo, you'll probably get nothing but flees, so the fun/money-ratio for Auckland Zoo is pretty high.

Even though I am not a very big fan of capturing animals and putting them into cages, I cannot deny that face-to-face meetings with lions, cheetas and tarantulas are quite memorable. But can someone please provide the zoo with a Norwegian elk?

We here bring you a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Mari dancing with the flamencos

Giraffes are fascinating creatures. They can be 6.5 metres tall and have a tongue with a length of 45 cm. Mari thought the giraffe baby (right) was so cute that she planned to steal it. Unfortunatly, zoo-lifting by putting a giraffe into your purse is not that easy.

What? You want me to catch that alligator-bastard so I can make you shoes and a new purse?

Christian playing with the ostrich

Christian and a few elephants. Christian to the left.

The mandatory ice-break. The temperature in Auckland is rising by the day - today we had about 22 degrees.

As if we hadn't seen enough funny creatures in the zoo, we met these guys when we got of the bus in Auckland CBD.