I finally made it to Japan!!! I’ve been planning a Japan trip for years, however I didn’t quite intend for it to only include 2 pandas – I booked to go to Adventure World as well, and just a few weeks later, the announcement was made that the Adventure World pandas would return to China in July. So I was too late for them, but I wasn’t too late to see the final pandas in Japan at Ueno Zoo – Japanese-born twins Xiao Xiao 晓晓 and Lei Lei 蕾蕾!
The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria was the first European zoo that I saw pandas in after my home zoo of Edinburgh way back in 2017 (when the last born…
On my last trip to Berlin in May, I couldn’t resist buying an annual pass – for zoo only it was 63€, and with a visit costing 25€ (on the…
After 7 years it’s good to be back in Washington DC again, and seeing a brand new pair of pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoo! My first visit was back…
My second time to Ouwehands Dierenpark to see the pandas! After a few days at Pairi Daiza, we took an evening train back to Brussels, then caught the Eurostar to…