Zoo and Safari Park is located in the town Dvůr Králové in the northern part of the Czech Republic.

Take your kids, your family or friends and go to see the largest exhibition of African animals in Europe. The whole area of ​​the Zoo is quite extensive, offering the tour by a sightseeing train, or you can make it on foot or even by your own car. The site has been created especially for children and therefore everything is adjusted to them.

Here you can visit the various pavilions and exhibitions:

• Hall of beasts
• Tropical swamp
• Bird world
• Dinosaur World
• The Flamingo House
• Water World
• The African Savannah
• The Pygmy Hippo House
• The Okapi House
• The Lion Tamarin House
• The Primate House
• The Meerkat House
• The Lion House

The most favourite pavilions are those with lions, monkeys and hippos.

If you want to experience more, Zoo Dvůr Králové offers many adventure programs:

African safari: a great ride through African nature – you are close to herds of antelopes, zebras, giraffes and wildebeest, as well as lions and cheetahs. The ride takes approximately 20 minutes. African safari is available from May until September.

Offroad safari and night safari, safaris for small groups (max 12 pax) during the day or night.

Attendant at the Zoo – you can become a nurse for one day and see what is it about to take care of animals. You will find it’s not just a job, but also a happiness to take care of pets. You will go through a backstage of Zoo, know daily rhythm of animals and maybe fulfil your dreams.

Zoo backstage: interesting guided walk through the best and most interesting corners of zoo.

Wedding in the Zoo: there is an option to choose an interesting, unusual and remarkable place for your wedding. Just few people can say that had witness like zebra or a hippopotamus. Enjoy your Wedding ceremony in a zoo and celebration in a banquet room at the Cheetah.

Hour Gardening: Learn how to care for plants and a beautiful park of the zoo.

The ZOO is opened daily and basic admission to both ZOO and Safari is €11. For further details see the official site of Zoo Dvůr Králové.

Accommodation in Zoo Dvůr Králové

Hotel Safari
Have you ever slept within earshot of the African wilderness? Try three-star Safari Hotel which is located directly in the Zoo Dvůr Králové.
https://www.hotelsafari.cz/

Safari Camp
Try luxury accommodation in bungalows or your own tents among African animals.
https://www.safarikemp.cz/

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You can see about 40 species of fish with a total number of more than 500. Enjoy a walk through an underwater tunnel and rainforest. If you are tired you can rest at Piranha Cafe – where you can freshen up while observing predatory piranhas. There is also available a family sport area with a ricochet court, sauna and gym, which offers active relaxation in privacy with your family.

In Giant Aquarium you have a unique opportunity to see tropical nature of South and Central America. In the first part of the tour, called AVE NATURA, you can see the exhibition which currently consists of a unique collection of skulls of exotic fish.

In the second part of the tour you get to the tropical rainforest, where you can learn what it means to stay in the tropics – a combination of heat and 85-90% humidity. Here you can admire the beauty of plants such as orchids, Bromelia or Tillandsia in amazing shapes and color diversity and in more than 150 species and varieties. The impression is enhanced by occasional tropical rain and artificial fog.

After passing through the forest you get to the bottom of freshwater tropical ponds with the fish community of South and Central America. Besides the fish that you can know from your home aquarium, you will find real rarities here. The most species belong to the family Cichlidae. You can see here a big, up to 90 cm long fish of the Colossoma Serrasalmidae weighing up to 23 Kg.

The total volume of the exhibition tank is 130 000 liters of water, which means the mass of 130 tons and for your idea it is a weight of about 40 elephant females. The aquarium is 5 meters long and 8 meters wide. The great view from the bottom of the pool is allowed by the tunnel of acrylic glass with a thickness of 6.5 cm, specially imported far from Japan.

Every Thursday afternoon you can see the unique fish feeding with divers in the tank.

The Giant Aquarium is open all year round (except of Mondays) from 9:00 to 18:00 and the basic admission is 120CZK (€5).

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The animals here live in very nice pavilions and it is really amazing how much space they have available. The pride of the ZOO is a newly built Indonesian jungle pavilion, tiger and predators pavilions, and a house of African gorillas. Very interesting exhibitions are also an aviary for birds of prey, pavilion of big mammals, the giraffe area and polar bears pavilion.

But the Prague Zoo is probably mainly proud of a unique breed of rare Przewalski’s horses. The main task of zoos is to protect species and help in their reproduction and Prague Zoo is involved in the reintroduction of Przewalski’s horses. Przewalski’s Horse lives in the wild only in Mongolia, and even there it was last observed during the scientific expedition sometimes in the 50′s of the 20th century.

Natural evolution

During its existence, the Prague Zoo has undergone many changes and has made great development. In its opening in 1931 Zoo had about 300 animals and was spread on an area of ​​only 8 hectares. It gradually expanded, but still retains the quality.

Prague Zoo was very affected by floods in 2002. A large number of animals were killed and many buildings were damaged. After the floods, ZOO has undergone extensive refurbishment and now it is a very modern and popular zoo. The symbol of those floods is a sea lion Guston, who in 2002 got into the river and was caught up in Dresden, Germany. Unfortunately the seal lion died on its way back to ZOO.

During the reconstruction of the Prague Zoo, several interesting and unique buildings were built here. These include also the most expensive pavilion in the history of the Czech Zoos – Indonesian jungle. The pavilion was opened in 2004 instead of 50-year-old monkey pavilion. The pavilion has an elliptical shape of the greenhouse, which creates the impression of the jungle. Inside, visitors can see the orangutans, gibbons or lizards.

Other interesting sites in the Prague Zoo include complex of monkey islands, children’s zoo (where kids may even feed the animals), African pavilion and lots of other new pavilions. Prague Zoo is growing rapidly, so in the near future we can look forward to another interesting enclosures and pavilions.

How to get there

Prague Zoo is one of the places where you can spend pleasant moments with your children. You can come here by your own car, or you can take a bus from the subway station Holešovice. A pleasant experience can be already a trip to the zoo by a ferry across Prague.

For more information, visit official website of Prague Zoo.

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