A day at the Zoo

Lonely Planet guide book describes Ragunan zoo as "a nice place to spend a few hours'

they forgot to mention not to go on a national holiday, particularly the end of Ramadan because every good muslim is supposed to spend time with their family and since just about everything is closed the only 2 places in the entire country to go with the family are the zoo and Taman mini (another post and another day!)

though since I ignored a friends warning not to go I dont think I would have listened to the LP either....

traffic was diverted a little to get to the zoo...

this was about 3 kms along and the hawkers selling shit were walking faster than the car....

after a fair bit of travel we arrived, first we saw this happy smilie white tiger...

did i mention there was a lot of people there ??

then the missus got hungry, well we had walked for 15 minutes or so and seen 2 or 3 animals so we stopped at a little kitchen that did Bakso and Mie Ayam.....

here's the crocodile cages.... theres a couple of animals in each pen.... this guy is a big bugger, but clearly unimpressed with the rubbish throwing...

I think the sign above says "dont throw rubbish at the animals you stupid gits" - but as you can see the indonesian's reading skills are not much better than mine!