Saturday, May 07, 2005

Sunny Avilon Zoo

After being on hiatus for a week, the Sunday Club resumed with a bang. This time, it was at Avilon Zoo in Montalban Rizal on the hottest day of the year... a stifling 42 degrees Celsius... in the company of Ate Boom, Kuya Dondi, Kuya Ronnie, Bam, Regina, and myself. Although the heat was horrible (imagine a rosy-cheeked Caren, an even rosier Ate Boom, and Regina the rosiest of them all), it was a very interesting two-hour walking tour.

The ride going there was not very long. Just an hour without the traffic. Upon arrival, you pay an entrance and tour fee of P200, which motherly Ate Boom treated us all to. Since we arrived there at 12:00 we had lunch at their snack pavilion. You can buy food there (pretty reasonable prices for food that tastes ok) or opt to bring your own. The place is very clean, and so are the bathrooms.

At 1:00 we joined a two-hour walking tour of the whole zoo. We saw different kinds of birds (you cannot possibly remember all their names), turtles, snakes, crocodiles... There was a kind of bear called the sun bear that's from the family of Winnie the Pooh; three shetland ponies, one you can pet. We got to carry an eagle, an owl, this other bird that looks snowy - don't know what it was. We saw a leopard trying to hunt for prey, an urangutan that "appeared" with Kuya Ronnie's hands through the glass and another kind of monkey that copied his head movements. We saw some really cute and chubby gerbils, a peacock with its huge white tail spread open trying to attract its mate, some kind of carnivorous fish that went wild when Kuya Dondi threw the raw chicken pieces inside. It was also our first time to see a bobcat, a rodent the size of a labrador called the mountain rat, and two tigers mating.

- Caren
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