Thursday, January 15, 2009

Siberian Tiger Park - Harbin Day 3

The official logo, located on the back of my bus seat, for the tiger park! Yes, they are cute and cuddly!We saw a lot of tigers roaming in different enclosed areas. The pictures are taken from very fogged up windows with no zoom. Sorry. You can click on any picture in this group to see it on a larger scale.
The tigers are really beautiful and huge. I was really taken by their size.

We were in this lion pen when the feeding truck came. Paige said there were live chickens on top of the car. I didn't see the chickens, only the lions jumping on top of the car. It was a spectacle.
One particular lion was not at all interested in getting off the car. This was his get-away moment. He was there for quite awhile. The driver finally backed up and started roaring off in another direction. The lion finally jumped off.


At the end of the van trip we walked through areas with caged animals. Very sad seeing these large animals in these small pens pacing. White tiger.
Leopard curled up in the corner. So cold.
Some experimental breeding going on. This guy had spots on his head, stripes on his body and a very strange tail.
This goes out to all the Principians. A panther!
King of the Jungle.
The girls and I left Ridley back at the hotel working for this excursion. The front desk of the hotel called a cab to take us, wait and bring us back. He was so wonderful. He dropped us 2 feet from the ticket booth (too cold to walk further!) parked and came running to lead us where we needed to go. It would have been a little tricky to find out on our own. He got us to our bus first so we could choose the best seats. He was lovely. We went back to the hotel, picked up Ridley, and we asked him to take us to a good restaurant. A delicious dumpling joint. We booked him again for the evening to take us to the huge Harbin Ice World.

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