Subject: Post: Two kilometers of walking in a slowly heating morning and we reached Merida Zoo. The Zoo was relatively small and the cages were old iron cages and fences, bad for photography. Two small jaguar kittens made the morning, though. Most cats sleep during daytime, but these two kittens were well alive and playing. :)<p>It was only 9:30am when we left the zoo, so we decided to check out a second one, Merida's new wildlife theme park Animaya. Finding a crappy old bus to the park took a moment and some walking, but after a couple of wrong turns we catched the right bus and drove outside the city to the park.<p>The park is less like a casual zoo, but more like a safari park with really large natural looking enclosures for the animals. Unfortunately the park had only partially been completed, way over half of the park still being under construction. The construction was going on all the time.<p>The park with only a couple of animals doesn't seem to attract too much visitors yet, or then it was just the fact that we were there on a working day. There was probably no more than 20 other guests. By the way, entrance to both zoos was free, just like Mexico Zoo.<p>On the way back from Animaya we stopped by a local shopping mall, shopping some swimming pants, shorts and just cooling off in air-conditioned supermarket. Another crappy bus took us to our hostel, where we could spend some time by the swimming pool.<p>I guess we should go find Timo a hammock now. Merida is famous for good quality hammocks and it just makes a good souvenir. Too bad we don't have any place to put one.. Maybe our office, my new work seat. :P Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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