Day Tripping Part 4: Montpellier Zoo

Due to weather concerns, we decided to stay in Montpellier on Friday and enjoy the free things the city has to offer. Again, Dawn, Cathy and I went on this little trip. Both Junko and Aleksey were feeling sick the past few days so they couldn't join us.

The interesting thing about the Montpellier zoo is the lack of variety in animals. We saw a lot of nothing actually. The cages in the zoo are unlike the American cages where it kinda forces the animal to be close enough for viewing. Here, the animals are able to roam a bit freer making it harder for the public to enjoy the animal viewing. We saw some typical animals as well but the one of the most notable parts of the trip to the zoo was the lemurie (lemur house) were we saw a good 20 lemurs running around in different cages and habitats. That was most entertaining.

After the lemurie, we ended up walking on a long trail to the next exhibit which looks like you are on a natural hike and not walking through a zoo. The brown bears were fun to see. There was a mama bear and a baby bear. This jerk French dude kept tossing bread into the cage for them to eat which was really bugging me. I ended up doing my good deed of the day and actually reported him to the authorities of the zoo as we were walking along. I didn't want those bears to get sick or whatever and that man had tossed almost a whole baguette in there by the time we left.

After the bears, we went to the lion habitat and the male and female were just laying down and chilling but at least we could see them. Generally, the zoo was fun and pretty great for a free afternoon. Below you will see some cool wooden carvings which we definitely climbed on and took pictures on.


Here is Dawn with a wooden sculpture:Here is Cathy with some weird stone sculpture we saw near a huge old tower:

Your British word lesson of the day: jaggy = prickly In a sentence: Those bushes were all jaggy.