Fuji Safari Park

Sorry Laura, but you were replaced this week for Adventure Day. This week Catherine, Gizelle, Mike, Lauren and I headed about 90 minutes away to Fuji Safari Park. This is a jurassic park inspired zoo where you drive through to see the animals. There is also a petting zoo, cat house, dog house and other animals you can see up close as well as the walking safari where you walk through underground tunnels to see the animals up close through look outs. This place was really neat.You can ride in your own car or you can ride in their fun animal shaped buses.

We drove through the Safari Park first in our own car. This is what made me think it was Jurassic Park:
There are lots of warning signs to keep your windows rolled up and stay in your car- especially in the bear, lion and tiger sections. One of my students said a couple years ago someone was killed by the lions when he got out of his car to check on his grandson in the car behind them. So they aren't kidding.The sign says "NEVER GET OUT OF YOUR CAR! NEVER OPEN THE WINDOWS!"

This time of year was neat because there were many baby animals. You could even get your picture taken with a baby lion but the line was really long so we decided not to. We saw baby giraffes, zebras and cheetahs. Even a few animals making those babies :).

We were able to get really close to some of the animals. At one point we even had to stop the car because a giraffe was going to run in to us.During the walking safari, you could pay 200 yen to feed the lions. I forgot to take a video of Gizelle doing it, but here is a Japanese person feeding the lions.

One of my favorite parts was feeding the animals. We fed the monkeys and the kangaroos. The little monkey hands were just like people hands. So cute.If I ever go back to the Safari Park it will be for the night time safari. You can go after 7 pm and see the lions and tigers hunting at night!