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Traveler California Here We Come
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- Jan 28, 2015, 9:00am
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 82 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.735316, -117.14904632°44’7” N 117°8’57” W
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San Diego
January 28, 2015 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Nancy decided to stay home today while the rest of us went to the much anticipated San Diego Zoo. The 100 acre Zoo is located in Balboa Park and is home to 3,700 rare and endangered species. We started off with a 35 minute guided bus tour and then planned our attack.Read more
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USA & Kanada
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- Aug 29, 2023, 3:59pm
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 83 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.734537, -117.15068832°44’4” N 117°9’2” W
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San Diego
August 29, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Den größten Teil vom Tag haben wir heute im San Diego Zoo verbracht. In Old Down sind wir Essen gegangen. Auch in den Pool des Hotels sind wir gesprungen. War heute ein ganz gemütlicher Tag.
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Traveler So wie es ausschaut lässt ihr trotz dem vollen Programm keinen Stress aufkommen!👍
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Traveler Bedrohliches schnaufen...
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Traveler USA 2023
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- May 22, 2023, 3:00pm
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 249 ft
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.73554, -117.15120532°44’8” N 117°9’4” W
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San Diego Zoo extras
May 22, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
San Diego Zoo extras from Michelle
Traveler Scary to see Leo - and the others - SO close to DANGEROUS animals!!
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Traveler Great pictures…what a happy bunch you all are! Granny and Grandad
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Traveler I guess Joy was with Michelle having a rest morning.
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Traveler USA - Südwest
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- Oct 15, 2018
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 68 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.735987, -117.15065432°44’10” N 117°9’2” W
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San Diego Zoo
October 15, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Back on the ocean... Nach fünf Wochen on the road quer durch Kalifornien, Nevada, Utah und ein Stück Arizona bin ich endlich wieder zurück am Pazifik. Genauer gesagt in San Diego. Hier habe ich mir fast zwei Tage frei geschaufelt, da es hieß "wenn du schon mal in der Nähe bist"... Und in der Tat, die Stadt ist gar nicht so schlecht. Amerikanische Städte sind natürlich komplett anders als europäische; ich muss da einen Guide zitieren: "die Gebäude in dieser Gegend sind alle mehr als 100 Jahre alt..." - und gerade als ich fange innerlich zu lachen, fügt er hinzu "was natürlich nichts bedeutet wenn Sie aus Europa kommen". Aber dennoch hat San Diego einen gewissen Charme. Allen voran bekannt für seinen tollen Zoo und Sea World (was ich aufgrund des Eintrittspreises ausgelassen hab), welchen ich direkt am Nachmittag nach meiner Ankunft besuche.

Auf einer Fläche von 40 Hektar sind 3500 Tiere aus über 650 Arten und Unterarten zu finden. Der Zoo wurde am 2. Oktober 1916 gegründet. Er ist wirklich sehr schön angelegt, die meisten Tiere leben in einem Nachbau ihrer natürlichen Umgebung, was auch typische Pflanzen einschließt. Die Herbergen reichen vom afrikanischen Regenwald über den borealen Nadelwald bis zur Tundra. Der San Diego Zoo hat auch eine der größten Volieren. Man kann mit Bussen herumfahren, mit der Gondel Skyfari über dem Park schweben (die Fahrt ist viel zu kurz?) oder man versucht zu Fuß, alle Wege zu erkunden. Attraktionen? Allen voran die Pandas! Das einzige, was ich die ganze Zeit denke, ist, dass mir die Gehege irgendwie klein vorkommen (wer mal im Zoom in Gelsenkirchen war, wird den Unterschied erkennen). Dabei betreibt der Zoo einen Safari Park, der den Tieren noch mehr Platz als der Zoo bietet.Read more
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Traveler California Here We Come
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- Jan 28, 2015, 4:00pm
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 82 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.735316, -117.14904632°44’7” N 117°8’57” W
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San Diego
January 28, 2015 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
My child found other ways to entertain herself :-)

Overall we concluded that we were disappointed in this zoo. Perhaps our expectations were too high as we had often heard or read that the San Diego Zoo was one of the top ten zoos in the world. Although there are botanical gardens interspersed with the animal exhibits, we still felt that the enclosures were very small. On the positive side, the zoo does have a large variety of species that we had not seen elsewhere. But for the admission fee of $43 each, we had expected more.Read more
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Billy Oaks SoCal
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- Jun 22, 2008
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 86 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.735316, -117.14904632°44’7” N 117°8’57” W
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San Diego Zoo
June 22, 2008 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
These last 3 days in California were allocated to Ximena. She hadn't had much fun since Disneyland. Today we went to San Diego Zoo.

What we expected to see: animals of all kinds, however the highlight had to be the Pandas.

We started by the camels where other than the usual dromedaries we found a Vicuña from Peru and right next door Kangaroos and Koalas from Oz land. Then we went to see the elephants and run into the Giraffes on time for feeding. For a couple of bucks we were able to feed the giraffes.

Then an elephant discussion and we event got to see an elephant playing the harmonica (check my video)

We followed the Bear Canyon to see the Lion and Bears, the lazy animals were mostly sleeping and then went close to the Panda exhibit where lots of people were queueing up so we skipped in the time being and went up the stairs to see the polar bear and then the zebras.
Lion.

Going down we arrive to the panda exhibit again this time we joined the line to see the lazy fellas. One of them was eating bamboo while the other was sleeping, we basically had to keep walking as we were watching.

Satisfied with the Pandas we went to see the Hippos were there was an under viewing platform. It was interesting to see how agile the big mammals were under water. We then went to see the monkeys and aviary

We finish the parked visiting the reptiles and the big Galapagos tortoisesRead more
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Traveler Round the World
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- May 8, 2016, 11:20am
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 82 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.734983, -117.14912932°44’6” N 117°8’57” W
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San Diego Zoo
May 8, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Traveled down to San Diego and visited the zoo for the day.

Alex decided that we were going to do a backstage pass which wasn't cheap, but it was good to meet the animals up close, feeding the flamingos was my favorite.Read more
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Alex Murphy 2016 Holiday
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- May 8, 2016, 8:00am
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 82 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.73546, -117.1490432°44’8” N 117°8’57” W
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San Diego zoo
May 8, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
The zoo was fun!
We bought back stage tickets which was an extra £80 (Hywel reluctantly agreed) but we got to see a few animals up close.
We also got to feed flamingos which was awesome and a giraffe.

We only went to the zoo as its one of the best and I can see why.
Favorite animal of the day had to be flamingos!
They were so funny when they came out of their pen for food.
Don't have any photos on my phone but I have plenty on my other camera that I will upload at some point :)Read more
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Traveler USA 2023
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- May 22, 2023, 12:00pm
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 282 ft
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.735336, -117.14936132°44’7” N 117°8’58” W
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San Diego Zoo
May 22, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
An amazing time at San Diego Zoo. Lived up to its reputation, huge, enormous variety and beautifully laid out...if a bit up and down! More photos than we can fit here!
Traveler Hahaha!!
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Traveler Ethan says, ‘I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GORILLA IN PERSON!’
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Traveler Usa/Australia
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- Oct 11, 2022
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 85 m
- United States California San Diego Inspiration Point North, San Diego San Diego Zoo 32.736615, -117.15059632°44’12” N 117°9’2” W
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San Diego Zoo
October 11, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Zoo 🦓🦒🐆
Traveler Viel Spaß in Honolulu einen guten Flug und einen weiteren Flug nach Australien. Schön deine Reise zu verfolgen.
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