The self-led walk through the lion park takes you along the front fences of their large enclosures; sometimes walking along "corridors" with enclosures on either side, sometimes walking the perimeter of a large open space (great for kids to run around - there's also a small jungle gym, have a picnic, etc). Benches are dotted throughout.

We arrived around 3pm, which is apparently the right time to go, as many of the lion's were becoming more active and heading nearer to the fences. Because the enclosures are mostly covered in vegetation, when the lions are lying down away from the fence, you wouldn't even know they were there! The males were also becoming quite vocal at that time of day, and we got to hear many of them roar.

It took us not quite 90min minutes to see everything (walking slowly, stopping to look, stopping to sit, without stopping to picnic or anything like that).

Friendly staff are around in certain areas and can answer questions. Each enclosure has a board with information about the circumstances from which the lions were rescued.

The fact that you aren't guaranteed to see the inhabitants of each enclosure makes it that much more exciting when you get to a fence with a lion sitting right up at it.

The Chimp Haven has two large enclosures only, with one fence to walk along and observe them; and a large caged enclosure with monkeys in it. Viewing this section (which is down a path away from the Lion Park entrance) only took us about 15min.