Prices at Dallas Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo in Texas

Now, let us go to the beautiful and big state (in terms of population and land area), in the United States -- the state of Texas. Aside from beautiful places like farms, valleys, waterfalls, lakes, Texas is known for its parks and zoos. All in all, there are 14 zoos at Texas and two of them is just ten and fifteen minutes away from where I am located, here at Dallas, Texas -- the Dallas Zoo and The Forth Worth Zoo.

Dallas City is the primary economic center of the 12-county Dallas-Forth Worth-Arlington (Arlington is home to the biggest stadium in the world, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium). The three areas belong to the metropolitan area and has a population of 6.4 million as of July 2009 according to the US Census Bureau, it is also the 4th largest metropolitan area in the US.

These two zoos, the Forth Worth Zoo and the Dallas Zoo are just fifteen twenty minutes away from each other. So come and join me in a travel down the south of US -- to the Dallas Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo.

Location of Dallas Zoo and other facts :

• 3 miles south of Dallas center (downtown) at Oak Cliff area in Dallas, Tx
• It features Africa Wild and the Zoo North (its two subdivision)
• Dallas is one of the few zoos in the country with the exhibit of tuatara and the only American zoo to display Perentie monitors
• covers 95 acres
• Largest zoological park at Dallas
• The Dallas Zoo serves as home to almost 406 species, 1,800 animals (6,800 invertebrates)

Zoo North includes :

• New exhibits to ZooNorth are the Otter Outpost, Galapagos tortoises and the collection of Texas invertebrates
• ExxonMobil Endangered Tiger Habitat
• Tiger Exhibit,
• Primate Place features monkeys with species from Africa and South America.
• Play escape for Children
• Underzoo, petting and pony ride

The other half of Dallas Zoo is the wild of Africa which includes ;

• The first exhibit to ever feature all of the major habitats from Africa.
• Rain Forests, Mountains, Woodlands, Rivers, Deserts, and Bush of Africa.
• There is the Nature trail which you can see the Gorilla habitats, Nile Crocodiles and Cranes.
•  The Nature Trail takes visitors through the Rain Forest visiting two large, naturalistic Gorilla Habitats.
• Chimpanzee Forest
• Home to Rock Hyraxes, Klipspringers, and Meerkats
• The Okapi is also present and Dallas Zoo is known for it, I wasn't able to get a pic of it.

There is a monorail at Dallas Zoo which you can ride while traveling to the Wild Africa sites

Viewing time :

9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily
-- Closed Christmas day
-- Hours subject to change

ADMISSION To DALLAS ZOO

$12.00 Adults for ages 12-64)
$9.00 Children for ages 3-11
$9.00 Seniors age 65 up

FREE Children for age 2 and under

-- All prices are subject to change

Website of Dallas Zoo : http://www.dallaszoo.com/

MONORAIL schedule

9:30 am to 3:30 pm daily
$3.00 per rider

The Fort Worth Zoo is a zoo located at Forth Worth, Texas, which like I said is very near to the airport, the biggest airport in Texas and the center of Dallas.

• The Forth Worth Zoo is home to 435 native and exotic species
• Named as as a top zoo in the nation by the magazine, Family Life, USA Today and LA Times
• Named as one of the top zoos in the South by Southern Living Reader's Choice Awards
• Placed in the top 10 zoos in the US

The Main exhibits in Fort Worth Zoo are :

I like the Museum of Living Art which was just included this year, others exhibits are :

1. World of Primates
2. Thundering Plains
3. Parrot Paradise
4. Herpetarium
5. Texas Wild!
6. Museum of Living Art
7. Asian Falls
8. Raptor Canyon
9. Chee·tos Cheetahs
10. Great Barrier Reef
11. African Savannah
12. Komodo Dragon

It is also open the whole year round.

Other Travel Links:

Tips on traveling for vacation

What travelling can do to a person

My wish list of places to visit Part II

My wish list of places to visit Part I

Travel to the southeast asia

Travels in Europe

PHILIPPINES HUBS

• Philippines-Pearl of the Orient seas
• “Panagbenga“ : Flower festival in the summer capital of the Philippines -- Baguio City

• Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park -- Worlds Longest Underground River

• Boracay White Beach, Philippines -- One of the Worlds Best

__________________

Other Parts of the World

Visit and Travel to the Exotic and Beautiful Bangkok, Thailand

Singapore -- The “Lion City-State”

I Remember the Beautiful City of Love Called Paris

What to see at Malta : The Queen of Mediterranean

Amazing Australia: Travel to the deep down under

Canberra, Australia

What to see at Amsterdam: capital city of Netherlands