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Ok, the title may not appear to be as what you like it to be. If you are expecting some Extra Terrestrial post well then it's too bad. It's about my recent trip to the National Zoo. Yeah I know it's not a popular discovery topic but what the heck. I guess it was a calling after hearing about the visit Malaysia advertisement aired over the radios all the time.

So here I am making my confession. I’ve lived in Kuala Lumpur all my life and it’s a shame I have not been to most of the places even not knowing how to get there. Now I pledge to take the time to make these trips if not to all at least to most locations. It maybe a bit touristy but it will be part of my lifetime resolution. First Kuala Lumpur, next Malaysia then The Rest of the World, oh what a dreamer! Let’s continue...

I had made this trip on last Sunday, 23 September 2007 arrived almost 4pm. It started to rain when I reached there but it's did not deter me from continuing. So we went in purchase the RM15 entrance fee and handed with the bar code band to wrap around our wrist. As we are on the way in, we noticed from far this Chinese auntie at the entrance waving at us. She greeted us nicely and holds our wrist to point the bar code to the scanner. She then offered us the site map. As we bid goodbye to the nice auntie, the zoo train cum tour buggy arrived. We decided not to hop in and walk instead. As the zoo train pass by us, we were a little bit uncertain to start off our own tour. The map looks makes it look a long tour around the zoo. We decided on the left side where it points to the mammals’ area.

It was still raining. As we walk quarterly wet, we arrived at arch of the mammals’ area to snap my first photo of the tour. We move on after a few more shots and found ourselves waving at the giraffes trying to them to come nearer to us. The giraffes only gave us a glance as they are busy grazing their meals. Well, no chances to be up-close with the giraffes for now so we went on observe the groups of birds roaming the lake. They make funny sounds and movements like some kind of mating rituals. We stayed there for a while until we move on with the tour the rest of the mammal’s kingdom including the walk-in birdcage. It is interesting to know that most of the animals were sponsors by big local companies that have animals as the company’s logo like the Sumatran tigers was sponsored by Maybank and the camels by AMBank. During our walks we thought the rain got heavier, but it was the wild monkeys on the tree above us shake the branches. We did not expect to get fooled by the monkeys! We move on to the reptiles and the aquariums. Everything seems to be dark and gloomy everywhere. Overall, the best walk we had was the Savannah where it was this huge acre of land but sadly no animals there where it suppose to be probably taking shades else where due to the rain.

Maybe it’s the fasting month, not many activities are able to be held as the zoo closed early by 6pm when it was suppose to stay open until 10pm during weekend nights. Although we felt the trip somehow felt incomplete, we had our fun and laughs touring the zoo.