This year's campaign centered on the opening of the Skyfari, a ski-lift-like chair lift 40 feet above the ground. Luckily, I have acrophobia, but it seems immensely popular and travels from near the Butterfly and Insect Pavilion to the elephant area in the southeast corner, $2 each way.
At left it travels over the cheetah enclosure.
At right it passes over the Garden of the Senses, just what it says, lush with flowers, fountains, animal sculptures, noisy parrots, several parrots and cockatoos allowed to perch in the open during the regular season.
It also passes over the lagoon around Monkey Island (monkeys, orangutans, gorillas are all elsewhere), the following photo explaining that name. Feeding the large koi (carp as goldfish) seen below the monkeys on the shore is popular, from the bridge.
The lagoon and the cheetah enclosure are enough to excuse me.
And I'm fairly sure that next year's campaign will have a Madagascar theme, as the very long building seen below near the aviary should be done and filled by then, the Doorly having extensive dealings with that island and being responsible for lemur research/discovery and such in its conservation/preservation role.
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