{"id":8509,"date":"2010-05-20T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:28:48","slug":"our-first-trip-to-safari-niagara-formerly-zooz-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/our-first-trip-to-safari-niagara-formerly-zooz-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first trip to Safari Niagara (formerly Zooz) this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8511\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/our-first-trip-to-safari-niagara-formerly-zooz-this-year\/safari_niagara_front\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg?fit=768%2C994\" data-orig-size=\"768,994\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"safari_niagara_front\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg?fit=640%2C828\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8511\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"safari_niagara_front\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg?resize=347%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg?resize=347%2C450 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/safari_niagara_front.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, our family bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safariniagara.com\/\">Safari Niagara<\/a> season passes for Christmas. Last Saturday (May 15) was opening day, so off we went. At some point this summer, I&#8217;ll write a thorough review, but for now, here are some random thoughts regarding Saturday&#8217;s trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The weather was not that great. There is obviously nothing Safari Niagara could do about that, but it still made for a less enjoyable visit.<\/li>\n<li>With all of the rain that we&#8217;ve had over the last week or two, the first quarter of the zoo looks terrible. There are puddles every where, and the moose pen looks like it is a swamp.<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, since the first quarter looks so bad, we were really thinking that we may have wasted our money. However, once we got past that part, we were thrilled.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure once the weather improves and the area can be cleaned up, that part of the park will be fine<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t been to Safari Niagara in around 7 years, and boy, has it grown! The monkeys are great, but the best part was the &#8220;Silent Forest&#8221;. This is where all of the cats are. The viewing is amazing for the lions, tigers, cougars, and more. You are at a safe distance, but still quite close.<\/li>\n<li>We had lunch at a picnic table about 20 feet away from the giraffe pen. At one point, a giraffe was eating some grass, and I walked over to where its head was and could have touched it if I wanted. Very cool!<\/li>\n<li>The water park looks very nice, but of course we&#8217;ll have to wait for warmer weather to try it out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In total, we were there for around 3 hours. We ended up having a great time, and definitely think that the cost of the passes will be well worth it. We&#8217;re looking forward to going again!<\/p>\n<p>Note: When you arrive at the park, they give you a map that is part of a newsletter for that month. The picture above is the cover of the May map. If you would like to see the whole thing, I&#8217;ve uploaded a <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Safari_Niagara_201005_map.pdf\">PDF\/scan to share<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, our family bought Safari Niagara season passes for Christmas. Last Saturday (May 15) was opening day, so off we went. At some point this summer, I&#8217;ll write a thorough review, but for now, here are some random thoughts regarding Saturday&#8217;s trip: The weather was not that great. There is obviously nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[3541,3540,1662,3544,3543,3546,1455,3542,2062,3545,1456],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","tag-cougars","tag-giraffe","tag-grass","tag-lions","tag-monkeys","tag-opening-day","tag-safari-niagara","tag-tigers","tag-water-park","tag-zoo","tag-zooz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}