Safari World
Safari World ( Thai: ซาฟารี เวิลด์ ) is a private zoo and leisure park in the district of Khlong Sam Wa in northeastern edge area of Bangkok. The park claims to be the largest open Zoo ( Open Zoo ) of Thailand, in which a variety of different animal species and hundreds of species in the natural conditions of their regions of origin adapted natural landscape can move freely. Nevertheless, some of these animals are kept in cages or must perform tricks for the audience. The whole plant has a size of just one square kilometer ( 800,000 square meters).
History
The complex was opened on 17 February 1988, decreed first over an area of 1,200 rai for the Open Zoo and another 450 Rai for a bird park. A redesign and expansion by 500 Rai was conducted in 1989. Until 1 February 1994, the private operating company had increased its capital from Baht 759 million initially to a total of 1.500.000.000 Bath and a year later ( since 16 February 1995) Safari World was the first and only amusement park of Thailand, in the SET index was recorded on the floor of the Thai stock market.
The operating company also founded the show event ( with amusement ) Phuket FantaSea in Kamala on Phuket Island in southern Thailand, where most of the originally held in Bangkok's Safari World elephants were brought to participate in the local show to Kamala.
Attractions
In Safari Park ( Thai: สวน สัตว์ เปิด ซาฟารี ปาร์ค ) hundreds of animals from all over the world live freely in a spacious area that encircles the Marine Park. An eight -km trail runs through this area, the man - can pass in about 45 minutes with your own car, but also in the coach or one of the park's buses - like a safari or photo safari. Disembarkation is not allowed, but except in the most secure area of lions and tigers to watch and photograph all animals with the window open.
The area is divided into several different zones of vegetation that is to the animals reflect their home region as authentically as possible. Here live in sometimes very high population (especially marabou storks, pelicans and deer are represented very numerous, suggesting that no or only an inadequate selection is operated ). Among others live here - listed roughly in order of the sequence of the course: - ostriches, giraffes, colored storks, marabou storks, camels, rhinos, zebras, nilgai, Watusi cattle, gaur - cattle, impala and black back - antelope, pelicans, wildebeest, oryx, cranes, reindeer, deer, lions, tigers, bears, peacocks and water buffalo.
In the space enclosed by the Safari Park Marine Park ( Thai: มา รี น ปาร์ค ) is a zoo and amusement park - the English name is deceptive, because it is by no means an aquarium or a Aquazoo, and except dolphins, beluga whales, seals, amphibians and a few fish species are kept no marine animals here.
In this area are numerous, primarily small to see animals, reptiles, and amphibians from all over the world. Public feedings take place, and on the so-called Safari Terrace you can feed the living in the Open Zoo giraffes from a raised platform by hand.
In addition, several show events attract the audience who are not undisputed by our Western standards, species-appropriate zoo animal husbandry. The dolphin show with dolphins and belugas is undoubtedly the crowds of the park. Other shows with white tigers, orang -utans ( the so-called Orang Utan Boxing Show ), trained birds and probably indispensable for Thailand elephants are just as heavily attended as various stunt shows. Modified and new attractions are offered every year.
To offer the facilities as an amusement park include, for example, the Jungle Cruise - a log flume by an African and Asian jungle - and a Jungle Walk, which takes the visitor through a maze of cages and aviaries. The park also has special offers for children and restaurants.
Criticism
In the park live orangutans are contrary to animal welfare trained to entertain the public on wheels, with drums, or by the Orang Utan Boxing Show. In the latter attraction the animals with athletic shorts and boxing gloves have dressed in the ring to stand as Thai boxers against each other. The actor Hannes Jaenicke has made known the fate of these animals and for the park by a ZDF documentary a wide Publik.
Elephants are trained within six months that you list a kind of tightrope walking on a tightrope, in part, on three legs.