Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Ipoh and Taiping Zoo

We went to Ipoh and Taiping Zoo last weekend.

We stayed at the Regalodge Hotel which had really friendly, ever smiling staff. And they gave us free Coke and 100 plus and snacks and white coffee and milk tea... It's a money worth spent accomodation.

The breakfast was at Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant which is 5 minutes drive from our hotel. The food at the place is, to my opinion, not really nice. Nothing to shout about but the crowd was insanely huge!


Staff was friendly and even told us to finish our dishes first before ordering more.


We had pau, assorted dim sum, chee cheong fun,chicken porridge. 


We left for Taiping Zoo soon after breakfast. One hour drive or so, Darrien was very excited to see the animal statues at the ticketing counter.


Taiping Zoo was surprisingly very clean and the animals are well fed. They didn't look sad and thin like those found in National Zoo. The animal keeper gave some bread to Darrien to be thrown into the pond. For the many colourful fish in it.


The kids and me posed at the lions' den.


The sea otters were fun to look at especially when they were eating their lunch, standing up.


The white rhinos were really big.


While the bearded pig amused us.


The trees in the zoo were a sight to behold.


The swans are gracefully swimming on the pond.


Cute Darrien smiled at the camera with the giraffes. 


Hey, the bull is attacking people!