In February 2023 I made two trips to Edinburgh Zoo – the first of which was for my members Pandamonium tour and unfortunately Yang Guang was really enjoying sitting eating with his back to the window! It’s a typical position for him, but he was super comfy on this particular day and didn’t get up for the few hours I was there. Luckily I ended up heading back to the zoo a few days later to meet up with a friend who was visiting and we struck gold with an awake Yang Guang eating facing the window this time. This was an afternoon visit and I was there between 1PM and around 3:30PM when the panda viewing closes (Winter hours) and I think this was a good time for visiting. It was very windy on the days of my visits, so Yang Guang was kept inside and he didn’t seem to be too bothered by the gusts from what we could see. I still managed to get some lovely pictures of him enjoying his lunch/afternoon meal – but fingers crossed he’ll be outside on my next visit!

One of my goals for this year is to make sure I make the most of having the pandas at Edinburgh Zoo – the pandas will be returning to China possibly as early as October 2023, so I’m planning to make at least one trip a month to start saying my goodbyes to my favourite pandas. The past weekend was a little windy, but otherwise perfect for a trip to the zoo! Tian Tian was particularly stand out, she was active eating and moving around. She even stopped eating with her back to the glass to turn around and eat facing me. But an absolute highlight was watching her pick up a big stick of bamboo and make her way up to platforms, onto the edge of her big hollow tree stump and head on inside to enjoy her snack away from prying eyes^

Firstly I apologise for the delay in this post – Summer at work has been super busy so I had no time to organise this one, I hope you won’t have to wait too long for the next post! I was super lucky to be able to make multiple visits to Edinburgh Zoo over the Spring months – with most things in Scotland not opening up until the end of April the Zoo was one of the few things that we could do, and I for sure took advantage of that! I took an unbelievable number of pictures on my various visits so decided to group everything together in this picture-heavy post. I think there is a picture of almost everything, hopefully you’ll find something you like (for sure if it’s panda pictures you’re after!). I wouldn’t normally start a post with a picture of a toilet block, haha, but this Spring amazing murals have been popping up all over the zoo, including this cool one on the toilet block in the car park – with a panda on it I had to take a photo! You can also spot a rhino, some birds, penguins and small monkeys around the site too^ Now head on to check out all those photos:

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