Zoosafari Fasanolandia
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Zoosafari Fasanolandia is an animal attraction and theme park in Fasano in southern Italy. The park includes a drive-through safari park in the visitor's own vehicle as well as walk around animal areas, animal shows, and several rides. The park opened in 1973 and includes the only male African elephant in Italy.
attractions: Lake Of Large Mammals, Village Of The Apes, restaurants: La Pizzichella, Masseria Pedali, Zoo, Self Service Safari, Mezz'Aria Ristorante in Masseria, La piccola oasi, Ristorante pizzeria Al Burreccio
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Zoosafari Fasanolandia is an animal attraction and theme park in Fasano in southern Italy. The park includes a drive-through safari park in the visitor's own vehicle as well as walk around animal areas, animal shows, and several rides. The park opened in 1973 and includes the only male African elephant in Italy.
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Great place to take the kids or any other animal lovers. I recommend stopping at the vendors selling carrots and peanuts right before the entrance to park and purchasing the €5 pack of 2 bags carrots and 1 bag peanuts. Next time we'll get 2 more bags of carrots and skip the peanuts since we didn't do the monkey train. Driving into the park and feeding the horses, donkeys, goats, and deer is the first stop. From there you drive through lion country and it was amazing. Seeing these animals so close and roaming around was a great experience. Same can be said for the tigers. The highlight for us was feeding the giraffes and zebras! It can be a little intimidating at first and the animals have no fear, they just want those carrots! 🤣 This is where the extra bags come in handy because we had 3 kids feeding these awesome animals and we went through them quickly. Be prepared to have a giraffe or zebra's head completely in your vehicle waiting for their treat. Kids loved this part and it was great watching their reactions to the animals. After finishing the driving tour, you pay €2,50 to park and continue the walking tour. It was really hot when we went so most of the animals that were outside were staying in the shade or out of sight to stay cool, even though it was late morning. You can take a train to mammal island to see polar and collared bears and baboons on the way back. The reptile house was fun for our snake and alligator loving kids and it provided some shade from the heat. Overall, we had a great time and the driving tour was our favorite. I wish there was a reduced price to just experience the driving tour since we spent €28 per adult and €22 per child 4 years and older. You can leave after the driving tour but for €100 we wanted to experience as much as we could while there. Next time we'll come during the fall or winter season so it's not as hot for us or the animals. You can also purchase tickets for the theme park next door, Fasolandia.
Jaime BusquetsJaime Busquets
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The fee is worth for the drive Safari only, the normal Zoo was average seen so many times. The drive path takes around 90 min, but we drove it more than 2 hours (enough space to stand aside to let others bypass you). Although the rule's windows must be closed, most drive with windows down (except when passing the lions and tigers). Animals are used to people and cars, they lean their head through windows letting you pet them and feed them - the best for that are giraffes and zebras. We had rice cakes, peaches and bananas with us. If you plan feeding them buy some food beforehand, as the road sellers before the park offer a small bag for 5 Euros. The drive around the tigers is unbelievable - they're 5, 6 of them on a roundabout with a tree and a small pond. They played and posed so we drove 3 circles around. Driving 10 met from the lions was so thrilling, and after that along the way you meet elephants, rhinos, camels, buffalos,... Completing the drive you park your car (extra 3 Euros) and enter the normal Zoo. Here, I would point out the Monkey train - caged train which takes you through hundreds of monkeys jumping on it. The rest of the Zoo is quite average and was underwhelming after the Safari drive. To conclude - no matter you're with kids or not, this is really one of the best attractions in entire Puglia region.
Dejan BrakiDejan Braki
20
Fasanolandia is a mixture of zoo and adventureland where you drive with your own car through reservoirs with lions, tigers, giraffes etc. (26€/person) After that tour, you park the car at a parking lot (2,50€/car/day) and go by feet through an adventure park and a zoo (f.e. Driving with a special car through a horde of real monkeys, which in return climb all over the car. But don't worry, that car is driven by an employee). Actually I was pretty sceptic about the whole thing, given the animals are around cars all the time, but I had the feeling they were pretty content and interested in the visitors. Zebras and giraffes look through your car window and say hello, some oft them even let you pet them. It was a fun day for my boyfriend and I. We advise you to drive there in the morning, because sitting in the car during the tour without an a/c is pretty hard to handle (we've been there with a VW T3 1980 - nothing more to say, right?) You won't have to wait for long if you arrive between 9.30 and 10.00. After that you might have to wait in a long line of cars and won't find a parking space near the entrance. We arrived at 9.45 and it was the perfect time. If you take some carrots with you, some animals will be really happy about it (and some of them will be a bit too excited, so be careful 😂).
Bianca VolfBianca Volf
10
I've seen quite a few reviews about how the animals appear badly treated and look sad in the zoo - but ultimately, it is a zoo. I didn't think they looked any worse off than other zoos I've been to in the UK (and arguably they had more space than other zoos). However, the welfare of the animals isn't really what I'm going to comment on. After you drive around to see the animals, there is a theme park which all in total costs 24 EUR per person to go to. Then we were in the theme park at 11am (it opened at 9.30am I think), the rides hadn't even been switched on. I thought that maybe because it was quiet that they didn't operate them, or maybe they didn't run if no one was using them, but literally not even the water rides had water on. Then, as I walked around the park, they all started to get switched on (e.g. water started flowing (see pic below) on the water ride). I guess they were just starting things late, but 2 hours late was a bit of a joke. The other thing is that you then have to pay 2 EURs to go on nearly all rides. That's a bit of a joke, especially as you've paid 24 EURs to get in. Anyway, generally I wouldn't recommend it if you're short of time, but if you're looking to kill a day, then this isn't the worse thing you could do with your time.
Max LinesMax Lines
10
This place has a nice drive thru safari where the animals will come right up to the window and get in the way of your vehicle. I would suggest buying the carrot and peanut bags they sell outside the zoo. Not clear on the legality of it but there are no signs saying you can’t feed the animals and everyone seems to do it. The drive thru safari is pretty long. After you go thru the safari you can then park and there’s also an amusement park and additional zoo features to the rest of place. It does cost more money to ride any rides once in the amusement park. It wasn’t very busy and no lines on any of the rides. Was great for our 3-year old: bumper cars, gondola ride, merry go round, etc. It’s an ok amusement park, but was a great half day event for us and a change from the many beach days.
Chris HugenbergerChris Hugenberger
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Ho trascorso una bellissima giornata qui. Sono entrato verso le 11:30 e sono uscito alle 16:30, ho visitato tutto il posto, compreso il luna park, tranne la vasca dei delfini e gli spettacoli perché non sono inclusi nel biglietto ma bisogna pagare a parte per entrare. Il biglietto per gli adulti costa un po' di più di 30€, mentre quello ridotto costa quasi 27€, sono ritornato qui dopo quasi 10 anni e i prezzi di biglietti sono cambiati un bel po'. Gli animali sono tutti tenuti abbastanza bene. La visita al villaggio delle scimmie secondo me dura un po' troppo poco (quasi 3 minuti), mentre se si vuole prendere il metrozoo bisogna fare una fila abbastanza lunga per poi prendere un piccolo trenino da 6 posti andando a fare il giro completo del lago ma senza visitare niente. Ho mangiato nel ristorante self-service dello zoo e devo dire che la qualità del cibo tutto sommato non è male, forse i costi sono un po' alti dato che abbiamo speso 60€ in quattro coperti con 1 primo, 1 secondo, 1 contorno e 1 bottiglietta d'acqua a testa. Ci sono i tavolini per fare i pic-nic vicino al luna park. Il luna park non è compreso nel biglietto della visita dello zoo, quindi bisogna fare un biglietto dedicato solo al luna park oppure pagare ogni singola giostra sulla quale si sale. Durante il giro in macchina ho visto i daini che ci hanno accompagnato per una parte molto lunga del percorso, gli ippopotami, le tigri, gli elefanti, le zebre, i leoni, ecc... Inoltre, vicino all'entrata del villaggio delle scimmie c'è un'area dedicata completamente ai rettili. Vicino all'entrata del metrozoo ci sono due piccole aree dedicate ai leopardi e ai gorilla. Nel villaggio dei mammiferi è possibile visitare le oche e le anatre in un grande lago, gli orsi polari, gli orsi bruni e le lontre. Infine accanto alla strada che porta all'uscita c'è un'area con una struttura simile a quella di uno scivolo di un parco giochi per fare divertire gli scimpanzé. Consigliata assolutamente la visita. Molto probabilmente fra qualche anno ci ritornerò.
Salvatore DipalmaSalvatore Dipalma
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