Fuji Safari Park

Hmm... my second trip to Fuji... ehh nope.. maybe 4th if I include the last 2 trips to Yamanashi (where Mt Fuji lies)... Anyway, made a trip to the Safari Park with 2 of my friends cus well we didn't manage to make it there the previous trip to Mt Fuji. But then it was a blessing in disguise because this time round, I received 2 free entrance tickets from my Japanese friend and because it was within the Seishun Ju 18 Kippu Period ( a special ticket which allows you to take unlimted trips on the JR trains for 2300 Yen per day), we saved loads of money!!

Ok, so in order to get back to Okazaki within the same day, we left at 5.30am in the morning!

The highlight of the trip, (at least for me) was the a month and half old lion cubs! There were about 5 of them. and they were so so so so cute!!! Really, I was so mesmerised by them that I actually stood outside the viewing gallery for nearly an hour trying to capture their moves. Of course, like a typical tourist, I stood in queue to take a picture with the cubs!

Well well.. not forgetting other animals... we had the baby porcupines. Cute little animals aplenty... but after all the most exciting place we were anticipating was the safari itself needless to say. And true to our blessing in disguise (again), we were spared the agony of queuing up for the "jungle bus" tickets because we went there by public transport. If not we probably had to queue up to an hour in the hot sun..

The safari... felt like entering into Jurassic park as said by my friend. High metal fence as they slowly slided open as our vehicle approaches.. wooh.. exciting!

So we fed the ferocious lions, saw the sleeping cheetahs, bathing tigers... what else... oh! and Dancing bears! Ok, that was an over statement, but indeed saw the bears bouncing up and down because they know food was coming by. (not us the people in the bus but the food we were all given to feed the animals.)

Ok... I know it is more exciting to see the animals rather than me but well I had to show lion.

And this is a very precious picture... a tiger bathing. according to the guide, this is the 3rd sighting in the whole of summer. Tigers... when do they bathe anyway?

That's about Safari trip... and what a tired trip... we got home at about 12 plus in the night becuase half way we got off to eat dinner or maybe supper (at 9+) at Hamamatsu. Yeh, can you believe it, all 3 of us didn't catch a single wink on the train be it the trip to or back cus we were busy chatting all the way. Women indeed.