Oakland Zoo has been shifted from one place to another since the time it first opened. Now settled in Knowland Park, this zoo has its animals in 45 acres of the 500-acre park. Spread across several hills, this zoo can be seen on foot, or on wheels as the zoo is stroller friendly and is also accessible to the physically challenged in wheel chairs and power scooters. Now, which zoo isn’t, right? Well, there’s another way you can see the animals that live here — just take the Safari Sky Ride.
The Safari Sky Ride is a unique feature at the Oakland Zoo so we just had to give it a try. When we were done with lunch and done with all the walking around that we could do, we made a dash for the Sky Ride booth and bought the tickets. Whatever happened in the next few moments happened all too quick. We got into the boarding area and jumped into the next car that came by. These little sky ride cars do not stop for you to board it. You just have to hop into it when an empty one comes. Thankfully there’s a person to raise bar in front of the seat and secure it for you as you sit; it all happens in a jiffy.
It is when the ride starts that you discover that the sky ride is quite slow after all. Once you are out in the open, all you have to do is feel the mountain air and watch the animals down below. If it is in early January that you choose to go (like we did) be aware: It might be really cold up there. What you see, however is really cool. Look down and you see that you are on a higher level than the-really-tall-giraffes. That, I thought was an amazing feeling.
A while later we were just above the African Lions and this was when I actually got to see the cat-with-the-mane properly. Earlier that day, the lion and the lioness were partly hidden by tall grass and since we were all on land the view wasn’t really good. Oh the aerial view!
People, hark! There are some sights that are exclusive to the adventurous on the sky ride. It is only when you are here that you get to see the Tula Elk and the Bison. Watching the elk was really interesting. There was a herd of those elk and they seemed to be really active; we saw the whole herd run uphill a little and run down again. What a sight!
When the skyride begins it was goes uphill for about 10 minutes. Then you reach the other end and make a U-turn and then its a downhill ride for the next 10.
It was on our way back down that I noticed the bison on the hill on the left. On the way up, I guess I was just too engaged with the elk. The bisons seemed to rightly belong there; way up there and all by themselves.
I wish I had taken some pictures while I was up on the sky ride. My hands were arrested with some bags and hubby had to take care of the toddler who is on his way to the ‘terrible two’ (And we were all metres above the ground. Luckily the little one was good on the ride).
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