The Reptile Zoo

If you want to watch the reptiles closely then this is the right place. Unlike other zoo's its not crowded very much here and also you need not drive or walk long sweating all the way and only be able to see the animals from a long distance.

The Reptile Zoo is located in Monroe, Washington which is only around half an hour from Redmond. Its a small zoo which has extensive collection of different reptiles like alligators, crocodiles, snakes and turtles. It is also very cheap like around 7$ for adults.

Alligator and crocodile

Snakes

You also get to see a Green Anaconda plus the special attraction is the 2 headed turtle.


Two-headed turtle

Anaconda and Turtles

The zoo is open all the week and on Saturday's they allow you to pet one animal and also they feed  reptiles in front of us.


There were many kids who were very much excited and curious to see and pet the animals. If you are having a boring weekend staying at home then surely you can visit this place. The visit was worth the pay.

It was afternoon and looking at feeding reptiles even we felt hungry, so even we thought of having lunch. We went to a nearby Thai restaurant "Thai On Main street" which is around 15 min from zoo. The food was awesome there. After lunch we drove back to home.

 The zoo was overall good, but after coming back home I just had a thought that - It is true that in the zoo they are taken care very nicely but how they are really feeling when they are put in a small space or inside the small glass box!. I visualized myself  locked inside a room for whole life; its horrible!.  So what would be the situation of those animals?. May be if they could speak like us, then we would have got the answer!.

Comments

  1. BhavyaMarch 8, 2019 at 4:12 PM

    Very nice will surely visit once. By the way if they got to speak then they would have said wow nice feast looking at you😀

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