Knuthenborg Safaripark

Knuthenborg Park

Knuthenborg Park & ​​Safari is a theme park in Denmark, which was created in Gutspark of Knuthenborg band between Holm and Maribo on the island of Lolland and the largest Safari and Adventure Park in Northern Europe.

The park has an area of ​​nearly 600 hectares, is long on the west and on the south by a more than 7 km and a 2.5 -meter-high stone wall with four input ports (including Maglemer gate, band Holm Gate) surrounded and was originally about 1866 laid out in English style. The Safari Park, however, was only founded in 1969, in whose family owned the park is situated as Count Adam W. Knuth for more than 300 years, the first African animals ( zebra, ostrich and antelope) could bring band Holm. Today you can invest more than 15 km of paths traveled by car to see the more than 900 animals, where you leave the car in many places and the animals can experience up close and without fences and barriers.

The park is divided into different departments, which are based on the continents. In the "Savannah " live area referred originally from Africa native animals such as zebras, giraffes, ostriches, antelopes, wildebeest and rhinos, also Watusi cattle, donkey, Nubian goats, pygmy goats and African screws horn sheep. There is also a separate area for monkeys ( baboons ) and prosimians ( lemurs ). From Asia come animals like the water buffalo, the yak, the Japanese sika deer, but especially the Siberian tiger, which are housed in a separate enclosure that can only be traveled by car and apply to the strict safety precautions. The Australian wilderness is represented by kangaroos and emus, the North American prairies and the pampas of South America by bison and elk.

In addition to the animal park exists on the site of Denmark's biggest nature playground.

Katta in Knuthenborg Safari Park