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Kirsten

Snapshots from Schönbrunn Zoo VIENNA, March 2026

With some panda nap times, I headed around the rest of the zoo – it’s an easy zoo to navigate and overall has a very relaxed vibe to it, plus some very tasty cakes in the cafe! Last time I got lucky and saw the tiny baby elephant and the cheetah triplets and was looking forward to seeing them again, and was hoping to see the new baby Amur leopard who had been born since my last visit – didn’t have any luck on that front though! A definite highlight was watching the sea lion feeding, and I enjoyed it so much on my first day that I also went back on the second day to watch again.

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Kirsten

A return visit to see the VIENNA pandas, March 2026

Time for my March trip to see some pandas – having bought an annual pass for the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna on my last visit, I headed to Vienna to get my second trip, and 3rd+4th visits, in to the second pair of pandas calling Vienna their home. That made the annual pass worth it! Even though it was supposedly Spring, March in Vienna came with some very cold weather and even a sprinkling of snow. Let’s get in and see those pandas:

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Kirsten

Snowy Zoo visits in January 2026 ~ Ouwehands Dierenpark, ARTIS Zoo and Zoo Berlin

What a January I had! Filled with so much more snow than expected XD I already posted about seeing the pandas when I was in the Netherlands, so also saw some other residents of Ouwehands, but with a few extra days on top of that, I also went to ARTIS zoo in hopes of seeing their baby elephant, and of course, I ended the month at Zoo Berlin, where it was very unexpectedly snowy as well!

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Kirsten

Exclusive PANDA viewing at Zoo Berlin ~ experiencing an early morning PANDA tour

Ended January with a little panda weekend – back to Zoo Berlin to see the cutie twins and make use of my annual pass again! This time I wasn’t alone, I had my mum and sister tag along. My mum has been to Berlin a few times with me before, but this was my sisters first trip to Berlin and also first time seeing pandas other than the Edinburgh Zoo pair, and first time seeing cubs too! Plus they were in the snow, what luck (because I had to wait years for that)! I decided to treat my mum and sister to an early morning private panda tour, so we had time to ourselves with the pandas, so it was very special =D

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