zoon-day!

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today was definitely not one of my usual sunday's.

i tagged along with my sister and her friends to the outskirts of montalban, rizal (far, far away!) in order to spend the morning at the extremely unknown and unappreciated avilon zoo.

here's rosanna the tiger...




and puma the leopard.




it was sooooo nice. for about P250 each (we were 11 in the group and split costs for a tour guide), we were able to walk around the 7.5 hectare zoo. although the tour isn't of the entire 7.5 hectares, i guarantee that it sure feels like it after 3 and a half hours under the scorching heat and 2 bottles of water =P.

i fell in love a lot today. i literally had tears streaming down my face after meeting albert--an orangutan--who i swear, was smiling the entire time we were "visiting" him. unfortunately, we couldn't take pictures of the primates :(

there was orange, the sun bear, who was so, so, so adorable. although he was stinky, he was one of the friendliest (or hungriest) animals, sticking his tongue out and licking the lens' of the cameras.

orange, the sun bear.




there was horsey, (i named him that! creative eh?), who was an artista, because you had to pay P50 to have your picture taken with him. he can only carry up to about 110-150 lbs. because of his size... interesting eh? ;).

horsey, the horse.




i'll leave it up to you to visit the rest of the animals. there are so many of them to meet! the birds whose colors made them look like sapin-sapin, the gross albino snake i did NOT pay P50 to carry, the croc named annie batumbakal, (haha, i'm serious about that!)... i promise you, it's a great way to spend the day.

it's amazing how much there is to see if you only make an effort to look. the poultry shop called "farm to fork" for example. the day wouldn't have been complete without seeing that :).