Beijing Zoo. An old style zoo in a big city, with pictures

I had previously started talking about the Beijing Zoo in the Pandas Part 1 post.  During our two week stay in Beijing, we got to visit a lot of the tourist spots in Beijing.  Besides the pandas, the zoo has many other animals.

This zoo is huge.  I don't even know if we walked the whole thing.  We got to see lots of what it had to offer.  It is an old style zoo.  There are cages, open areas, netting for birds.  The open areas had animals like a giraffe, donkey, etc.  In these areas, you could get close to the animals.  There were some open areas that you could not get to the animal.  Those housed bears, lions and tigers.  The monkeys were in cages.  Some birds and hawks were in an open netting.   I did see an elephant in a small concrete enclosure.

The zoo was kept in good condition.  Some animals did not look happy, but what animals in captivity would be.  People would yell and poke at them to get them to move.  Most were hot and tired.  They just looked at the people, hoping they would move on.  

The children loved it.  They ran around and looked at all the animals.  Kayla took pictures with her fans.  The girls posed with people and with concrete animals.

The zoo did have a gift shop.  We were talked into buying stuffed pandas and soda.   We did not eat at the park.  We went to a restaurant after our visit.