There’s a lot of laughing at the antics the animals put you through to get the food - so make sure you purchase at least two buckets the park recommends one bucket per person.īut like its sister parks, Gulf Breeze Zoo in Florida and Alabama Safari Park, the Virginia Safari Park has a more serious mission: these three zoological parks support wildlife conservation through ongoing support of organizations doing work in the wild. The animals are lovely though, and the slow drive through the safari is fun, whether you’re a 10 year old kid or a middle-aged woman. Hang on tight, because the animals have learned to grab the buckets and there’s often a brief tug of war (and as you drive around the park, there are numerous buckets along the road, which I suspect the park personnel pick up each evening). The fallow deer, a deer species native to Europe, work collectively with the sika deer, a species native to Japan, to make good on the llamas’ effort, and in the wake of the llamas, crowd around the windows looking for the feeding buckets. Then, as you roll to a stop, they’ll turn their heads, make eye contact with you, and grin. They greet you as you roll into the park with an orchestrated effort to slow your vehicle down to a stop by loping confidently in front of your car. There’s also elk llamas Watusi cattle pot bellied pigs emus, rhea and ostriches and more. Virginia Safari Park is home to more than 80 animal species, including rhinos, giraffes and king cheetahs and a variety of deer from all over the world. This visit was just as exciting - although not as damaging to my vehicle. But as we entered, I mentioned that the last time, a water buffalo had gored my car, and they said, “Oh, you’re THAT travel writer.” (I was afraid for a moment that they wouldn’t let me back in.) It seemed like it was an unusual enough event that two years later, they still remembered. I didn’t believe them when they said we were the first to have an animal get its head stuck in a car - the water buffalo was just too blasé about the experience, ambling away as if she did this every week. On our first visit to the Virginia Safari Park, a water buffalo gored the roof of my Prius and got its head stuck in my car. The Virginia Safari Park is a fun zoo, minutes away from Interstate 81 in the Shenandoah Valley, where you can see and feed animals up-close from your vehicle as you drive through the scenic rolling hills.
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