Amazon World Zoo Park on the Isle of Wight (by Finn)

[caption id="attachment_1390" align="aligncenter" width="940"] A gorgeous tamarind monkey[/caption]

We're delighted to have a guest post this week by Finn, who's 11. A few months ago he told us about his trip to the Dr Who Experience in Cardiff. Now he's been to the Isle of Wight and a brilliant-sounding animal park.

This Saturday I went to see the animals at the Amazon World Zoo Park on the Isle of Wight and I loved it. My favourite animal was the tapir, but other animals at the park included snakes, toucans and capybaras. After we finished our walk through the place, my brother Callum and I went to a Jurassic Park playground just outside.

The first room we entered had birds flying around above us and some small glass rooms where sloths, monkeys and crocodiles lived. The second room was called "Secret Animals", but there weren’t actually any "secret animals" there! However, there was a scarlet macaw screeching hello and lots of exotic birds hiding in the greenery.  After that there was a dark area with armadillos snuggled up in balls, looking like melons. One was running up and down and one was digging a hole.

The next area we went to was outside and it had some really interesting animals, such as ring tailed and red ruffed lemurs, meerkats, tapirs, anteaters and the extremely rare red panda.

As soon as we entered the area we spotted the long bodied anteater stalking its territory.  Further in was the wallaby enclosure, which had gates so we could go inside and walk right up to them. All of us were scared by the albino one which hopped right up to us.

[caption id="attachment_1393" align="aligncenter" width="940"] The albino wallaby was a bit scary[/caption]

We spent some time watching the meerkats who looked like they were doing parkour.  Then we went to the lemur enclosure. We were lucky to get there as they were about to be fed, so we were able to go right inside. The man said that they might jump on us, but luckily they didn’t.



The ring tailed lemurs were a family.  The youngest was only 12 weeks old and it hung on to its mum’s back as she jumped around.  At one point they all bundled on top of each other. There were many other animals and insects too. There was even a chameleon.

At the playground outside there were tall rocks, probably made out of plastic, with plastic dinosaurs (life size) on top. On top of another there was a land rover with the paint scheme for a Jurassic Park car; it seemed to be a real one.  When it was time to go back to house we were staying in Callum and I had gone on all the obstacles.

To conclude, my opinion of Amazon World Zoo Park is that it was really fun and some of the animals were quite cute especially the red panda, the anteater and the sloth. However, I also thought that some such as the albino wallaby, scarlet macaw and the axolotl were scary. The family ticket allows you to return free as many times as you like in the next seven days and it cost less than a one day child’s ticket to LEGOLAND! It was just as good as London Zoo even though it was much smaller.

The Amazon Zoo World Park is open every day and all through the year. It costs £9.95 for adults and £7.95 for children aged 3-14. A family ticket for two adults and two children costs £32

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