San Diego Zoo Safari Park vs. The San Diego Zoo

If you go to San Diego and are trying to decided between the Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, make the trip to the Safari Park.  It's worth the 30 minute drive!

The safari park sits on 1800 acres.  This give the animals lots of room to roam around.

 

The elephants especially love it.

This little one had a great time playing with a box.

We paid a little extra to take a photo safari.  It was a splurge that was well worth it.  We had close encounters with grazing animals, rhinos and giraffe. 

A bonus to this safari was feeding the giraffes!

 

We were all pretty darn excited about this development!  The giraffes were so cool!

After our time at the Safari Park, the San Diego Zoo seemed really anti-climatic.  My advice if you want to experience both parks is to go to the Zoo first then go to the Safari Park.  You won't be able to do both in one day.  We spent all day at the Safari Park, but only a couple hours at the Zoo, that's because there were only two animals we wanted to see.

Koalas

And Pandas

We also saw Baboons having sex but none of us had the guts to photograph that event!

(I'm still editing Sea World pictures, so it will be a few days before that post hits the internet!)

Comments

[Tracey of These Nine Acres]

LOVE the giraffes!

[The Incredible Woody]

I have always wanted to visit both places! I will definitely remember to visit the zoo first. Elephants are my favorite:)

[Liz C.]

I can't believe you got to get so up close & personal w/ the giraffes. How amazing! I've always heard that the San Diego Zoo is the best in the U.S. & I love, love, love going to zoos. What fun!

[Mental P Mama]

Love those giraffes! And the koala love??? Squeeee!

[Syed Housein]

nice pictures. those are some tammed animals.

[Meg]

I would very much like a koala and a panda bear! Love the giraffe pics.

[After dark]

Very nice pictures. I guess these animals are rare. Thats good you got chance to see them.