A Trip to Safari Park
Today, my friend and I took leave day to accompany our visiting friend from out of town
to go to Safari Park. The park is located in Bogor, which is a city just outside Jakarta. It took us about two hours to get there. Since we had our own transport, we could go straight into the zoo in our cars. The animals were just living ‘normally’ in their artificial habitat – or as normal as it gets. They walked around freely, able to approach our car as close as they can. Some animals (luckily, the tame ones) seem to be used to being fed through a small opening of the window. Whenever they approached our car, they went straight to the top of the window as shown in this picture on the right.
All kinds of animals where there. Zebras, rhinosaurus, bears, tigers, elephants, even 
giraffes. What is more exciting about this zoo – even when this is my third time here – is the fact that they have a petting zoo at which you can have a wild animal of your choice (well actually among a very selective choice) sitting on your lap and have your picture taken with it. That’s exactly what my friends and I did.
I had my picture taken with a white lion and a tiger. Here I am pictured with the little tiger, named Tamil. I don’t know whether the pun was intended or not. But anyway, Tamil had really fluffy fur, and although it is only a little cub less than six months old (or so I assume), its paws are so huge that it covers my whole knee cap.
Of course while we were there we could not starve to death so we also stopped somewhere for some food. They had this small canteen near the elephant’s riding station (yeah you can imagine how it smells like), so that is where we went. One of my friends brought her own lunch with her, but the rest of us ordered chicken noodles or mie ayam. Of course since that is one of my favourite dish, my expectation was high. Although it was not as good as the mie ayam in Aldiron, it was still acceptable. But as you may remember, I only have two main categories for food: ‘delicious’ and ‘very delicious’. 
We ordered three different juices with our food, so we had a nice colourful table.
