Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Shanghai Zoo

Since Dragon Boat races weren’t available, and classes were cancelled, we figured we might as well do something borderline educational.

















At one point we came upon a “pet zoo” which I assumed was a “petting zoo” and it just didn’t translate completely. But no, it was definitely a pet zoo, housing all these different types of dogs. While I don’t think they were mistreated, it was a bit sad to all these animals that could be living with some family, instead of in a cage. We came to a building with abstract cat pictures on the side, and I thought we were about to see a bunch of cats in cages and I wasn’t prepared to handle that, but the cages were empty, so I guess their cat collection didn’t work out (the zoo has a lot of stray cats just running around free already).

Our reflections look quite dejected








Red Panda


Kids looking at red panda


GIANT PANDA…and child’s reflection


Tiger


Lion sex


Some bear-like animal


ZEBRAS




Bison






Camel with a broken hump


Baby monkey!




What you talkin’ bout Willis?






Weird flower tree, somewhere in Shanghai


For lunch we decided on Malone’s, an American café that boasts 30 different kinds of burgers (according to the guidebook…the menu only had 20).



Pete’s bacon, cheddar, chilli burger, and my bacon & cheddar burger

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