GEO: Tbilisi Zoo

64 Merab Kostava Street, Tbilisi, Georgia

Daily: 10.00am - 6.00pm

Founded in 1927, Tbilisi Zoo is the oldest and largest zoological park in Georgia. Prior to the massive flood that happened in 2015, the zoo had approximately 300 species. It's such a pity that quite a lot of its inhabitants died, while others were on the loose.

Priced at GEL 2.00 (~S$1.05) per person, the entrance ticket to the zoo is highly affordable.

Balloons for the little ones! :D

There are quite a number of attraction rides for kids.

Who wants to be a firefighter?

Not a bad place to sit down and enjoy the cooling breeze~

The primates were the first few animals my BFF and I saw that afternoon.

We then saw a coop shared by many peacocks and peahens.

I love that shade of blue.

Some of the animals were sleeping soundly.

Quite a huge porcupine!

Asking for food~ I wasn't the one feeding it though.

Seeing a lemur always makes me want to go to Madagascar, of course.

The lemur's expression when it saw me doing a video recording was priceless.

The zoo was pretty empty, perhaps due to the chilly winter.

The Ferris wheel was in operation, but no one was riding it.

Did you know that golden pheasants, in spite of their magnificent colours, are actually very difficult to see in their natural habitat of dense, dark conifer forests?

What a beauty! <3

How would you feel being the odd one out?

Can anybody tell me the name of these animals?

Make friends with them, dearest deer~

Yet another odd one out was spotted in the next enclosure.

All of them were standing still for about two minutes.

I wonder if it gets along with the rest.

I hope the next two photos would make you go, "Awwwwwww~"

Cuddling under the red-coloured heat lighting~ :3

It was certainly too quiet for a zoo.

A lot of kiosks sell corn snacks.

The wall art looks childlike.

Let's continue our exploration.

Tapir and llamas!

All these fierce animals were too sleepy to do anything.

Don't you think it looks adorable?

Time to see some birds of prey!

Did you know that the stomach acid of vultures is exceptionally corrosive?

Nice hair there!

Fancy some of these four-legged creatures?

Scratching its face on a tree trunk~

The donkey was waiting for me to feed him, but I knew I shouldn't.

Watch those cute creatures happily munching on grass.

There are more attraction rides at the end of the path.

Seeing all those fodder instantly reminded me of Harvest Moon on the spot.

From there, we walked back to the entrance of the zoo. Apparently, we'd missed two animals as they were kept in their respective stables due to the cold weather outside.

There's a sign that tell's about the hippo's escape to town during the flood.

The last species we saw were the two elephants.

The moment I peeked into the stable, those two moved closer to me. 

A 'beelephant'? xD

To end it off, here are some warning signs that you can see throughout the zoo.

Georgian alphabets look interesting, eh?

It's known that the zoo lost close to half of its inhabitants due to the flood. As far as I could see, there are no more bears and wolves, among others.