A decision was made to visit this mini zoo after hearing its name for sometime but yet to have a chance to visit. Its my holiday and outing time with my siblings thus we explored this place.
Its location is at Mile 16, Sg Gum Gum, Sandakan can be found using GPS. We saw Sam Jaya Supermarket on the left side of the road (from Sandakan) before we turn in and saw the mini zoo on the most left hand side of Sam Jaya Supermarket. Its name is actually Natural Park.
There is a small sundry shop at entrance where we bought our entry token at RM4 per pax. If you wish to feed the fish later, remember to grab the fish food here at inly RM 1.00 per pack. Before we went in, we visited the the toilet. Toilet is below standard and we were charged RM0.20 per entry.
The first animal we saw was long-tailed macaque.
One macaque was catching mites for another.
Then we saw a fenced playground which was closed that day.
This place is not really well-maintained, perhaps due to lack of visitors. Spider webs with a spider clinging on it was seen. I cannot imagine if i accidentally bumped by face on it...
Porcupine in the culvert.
A low fence garden with a variety of ducks running around. And yes, we saw the ugly ducklings :)
Then, we reached the Bird Park. There were many bird species but I just managed to capture a few which were willing to pose for me. This bird, oh I forgot what's his name, was the most talkative and attracted most of our attention. He said hello, Assalamualaikum (greetings in Malay), bye bye...but he is so smart that he only spelled out a new word when we wanted to walk away from him, lol.
Another cute species seen...
Guess what! This is an eagle!
And one of the 3 biggest species of owl found in Sabah.
The walkway in bird park, indeed most of the walkways are roofed to protect us from the hot sun.
A small garden for us to sit down and relax.
Then we reached a fish pond, we spent some good time feeding the fish.
We met Mr. Lizard there, mistakenly thought that a baby crocodile escaped to the walkway at the fish pond, pheeewww.
The landscape at the pond.
Fish feeding session.
Then we continued the walk and we saw this owl at the walkway.
We were still in the bird park, this is the largest place where a whole lot of chicken species are living in it. This bird/chicken caught my attention due to its beautiful colour and its size.
See? His size compared to a normal chicken. I wonder how to balance the body weight with the legs in front, I think it would be tiring,hmmm...
Another view as we rounded the place. The chickens were so friendly, they followed us as we walked around the place.
After saying goodbye to the chickens, we headed on and found another fish pond.
A few species of weasel i think, apology as I really do not care about the names lol. We had a chance to observe their feeding session.
Then we continued our walk to exotic fish pond.
We tossed a few coins and made some wishes, but be careful not to knock their heads, ouch...
Snake room
Another fish pond with wooden walkways.
The walkways looked endless. They lead to a few rest places.
One leg width bridge for us to cross.
It leads to a beautiful rest place. We think it is good for barbeque.
A wooden staircase with a tracking trail above. Looked like nobody has been there for sometime, the trail looked unaccessible, so we did not explore further.
We were about to the exit, saying goodbye to the stagnant crocodile.
Just for fun, there were really lots of spider webs around.
There we were! The exploration ends. In my opinion, this Natural Park is worth a visit due to its affordable charges and that the animals are well taken-care of. However, the place needs a boost if wants to attract more visitors. I did not notice a different charges for non-Malaysian, so I presume its the same. We went to the supermarket to get some drinks before heading off.
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