Slow stroll through Taipei Zoo.....LOTS photos

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In March, I had a chance to visit Taiwan for some business meeting. I purposely scheduled my return flight couple days later so I can visit the Taipei Zoo and some reptile store in Taipei.

My only target for the zoo is the reptile house, I think you all not really need or want to see all the monkeys and lions right? If you do, I still have those photo.

Let me use all the picture below to guide you through the zoo and couple reptile store.

Taipei zoo is located at the end of one subway line, so taking the subway really make sense, the name of the station is "ZOO". so you will not miss it. The theme of the station also based by zoo.
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The main entrance of the Zoo is about 200 feet from the subway station, the wall along the walkway also decorated with animal.
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This the ticket booths. I was there at 9:00 Monday morning. Very few visitor. That is the way I like it.
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The main entrance of the zoo. You see "Monkey around" already.
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The Zoo map.
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The reptile house are located on the far side of the park, Zoo provided with little train that visitor can ride for about $0.20 USD for about an mile ride. Even it is 9:00 in the morning. I took the train.....
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Reptile house just right around the corner soon as you get off the train.
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And when you saw a flower pot like this....you know you are not far away from it.
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Then........Let all the photo do the talking.......
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More photos......I'm doing this waiting for my flight to Hong Kong.

A zoo keeper.......

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The front door of the reptile house
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A pink Torts. Got to ask The ALDABRAMAN, is this one of his hatchling or one of Jeff's Hypo reed foot?? in PINK? Maybe lots kids would like to visit the zoo.
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They get some really BIG snapping turtles in the tank.....
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More torts..

The zoo got a whole school of large Sulcata.....I guess the Zoo adopting large number of the Sulcatas which people abandoned.......
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I spend about 15 mins around this Sulcata enclosure. Those large Sulcatas are one by one coming out of their indoor enclosure one by one to get some rays.......
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The Aldabre will not come out. I can onky took this long shoot of his big butt.......It is he....Right??
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More Sulcata in a different enclosure....
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Sulcata's food with added power.....Don't know what it is!!
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This display talk about pyramiding......

All the signage in the Zoo are bilingual......
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More picture......

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Continue......

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Thanks for sharing your trip to the zoo with us. What a nice place! So clean.

Have a safe trip.
 

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Thanks for all of the great pictures!
These are very interesting!
 
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