We paid for our tickets, and this post is not sponsored in any way, not that there’s anything wrong with that. If you’re ever on your way down I-81 through the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains and want a place to stop for a half-day family adventure, I highly recommend Virginia Safari Park or one of their reciprocal zoos, Gulf Breeze Zoo in Florida and the Reston Zoo in Vienna, Virginia. Yeah, I had to wash my car, and I still need to vacuum out the animal food, but it was so fun to get that close to animals that we usually only see behind large fences at the zoo. This was the coolest thing we’ve done in ages. I don’t do birds *shudder* so I waited outside. There was even an aviary where you could walk though and the birds would land on a stick you hold out to them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. One of the highlights of the excursion was seeing a mama kangaroo with a joey in her pouch. Expedia verified reviews Howard Johnson by Wyndham Lexington Comfort Inn Virginia Horse Center Hampton Inn. R really wanted to do it, but the second the giraffe’s wet tongue touched her hand, she squealed and dropped the food, much to the dismay of the unfortunate giraffe. Recent reviews of Virginia Safari Park hotels. You can feed them too, but rather than buckets, you feed them right out of your hands. There is a separate village walk-through for certain animals including the giraffes. They have bison, llama, camels, pigs, deer, emu, ostrich, elk, giraffes, antelope, oryx, wildebeest, buffalo, yak, cattle, watusi, pigs, zebras, rhinos, kangaroos, peacocks and monkeys. Then before I could blink, he STOLE my bucket. Soon the kids decided to get in on the fun.
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At first the kids were afraid to roll down their windows so mama had to show ’em how it’s done. I am serious!!!! We were laughing so hard.
This was the scene that greeted us as we emerged from the ticket booth :
Animals roam freely on the 180-acre property, and you drive through on a 3-mile paved loop and feed them out your window. Safari Park is pretty much a drive-thru zoo. Open Daily Mid-March through November for. They were determined to go and wouldn’t take no for an answer. My husband and I were a bit hesitant, but after reading a few reviews online, we decided that there wasn’t much chance we’d get our heads bitten off so we agreed to stop in on our way home. Virginia Safari Park - Virginias Only Drive-Thru Safari Adventure, Natural Bridge, Virginia. I’ve driven past it probably a hundred times and never knew it existed, but when we stopped in Lexington (on our way to Virginia), the folks in the Visitor’s Center shared this with us an an option for things to do in the area, and my kids jumped at the chance to see wild animals up close and personal. On our way home from Virginia last weekend, we stopped at Virginia Safari Park.
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