On Christmas Day, visitors to the Prague Zoo can look forward to, for example, a special performance by South African sea lions. Photo by Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo

The Prague Zoo box office will be open until 2 pm on December 24, but the complex and pavilion will remain accessible until 4 pm. Visitors who would like to present the animals can bring them to the main entrance food in the form of dry bread, carrots or apples. Children under the age of 15 have entry for only one crown on this day.

During the Christmas holidays, December 24-26, as well as January 1st and 2nd, there will be traditional and special guided feedings and meetings with animals. In addition, an extraordinary performance of South African sea lions is planned for Christmas Day at 1.30 pm and for the New Year at 2 pm. From December 27 to 29, the animals will be fed with unused Christmas trees and food that will bring visitors to Christmas Day.

On the feast of the Three Kings, on January 6, Kaspar, Melichar and Baltazar will walk around the zoo and give small gifts to children. An annotated feeding of bipedal camels will take place from 1 p.m.

Christmas program at the Prague Zoo

December 19 – 24: Bethlehem Light is available at the main entrance

December 24 – 26: Christmas at the zoo

On Christmas Day, the box offices are open until 2 pm, the campus and the pavilion until 4 pm. Children under 15 have entry for CZK 1 on this day. On other days, the standard opening hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• 9.00 – 14.00 Visitors can bring the animals to the main entrance dry bread, carrots or apples (only December 24)
• 10.00 Meeting at Nestor Kea – outdoor exposition of Rákos’ pavilion
• 10.30 Feeding giant kangaroos and red-necked kangaroos – Darwin crater
• 11.00 Feeding Humboldt penguins
• 12.00 Meeting in jungle dogs
• 13.30 South African sea lions performance (only December 24)
• 13.30 Meeting with Indian elephants – inside the pavilion in Elephant Valley (December 24), view opposite the wolves in Elephant Valley (December 25 and 26, takes place only in good weather)
• 14.00 Meeting with Karelian reindeer
• 14.30 Meeting at Indian Takin
• 15.30 Meeting with Bear Devils – Darwin Crater

December 27-29: Animal gifts

Handing over the unused Christmas trees and feeding that the animals brought to the animals on Christmas Day.

• 10.00 Nestor kea
• 10.30 Nubian Giraffes
• 11.00 Honeymooners
• 12.00 Bison
• 12.15 Bison
• 12.30 European moose
• 13.00 Indian Elephants
• 13.30 Manchurian Leopards (only 27 December)
• 13.30 Cabra Hyenas (only December 28)
• 13.30 Eurasian Wolves (December 29 only)
• 14.30 Barbary sheep
• 15.00 Lowland gorillas

January 1: New Year’s Day in animals

Special New Year’s commented feedings and meetings with animals, supplemented by competition questions for small prizes.

• 10.00 Meeting at Nestor Kea – outdoor exposition of Rákos’ pavilion
• 10.30 Giant and Red-necked Kangaroos Feeding – Darwin Crater
• 11.00 Feeding Humboldt penguins
• 11.30 Bactrian camel feeding
• 13.30 Meeting with Indian elephants – view of the wolves in the Valley of the Elephants (held only in good weather)
• 14.00 Performance of South African sea lions
• 14.30 Maggot macaque feeding
• 15.00 Feeding Eurasian wolves
• 15.30 Meeting with Bear Devils – Darwin Crater

January 2: Guided feeding and encounters with animals

• 10.00 Meeting at Nestor Kea – outdoor exposition of Rákos’ pavilion
• 10.30 Feeding giant kangaroos and red-necked kangaroos – Darwin crater
• 11.00 Feeding Humboldt penguins
• 12.00 Meeting in jungle dogs
• 13.30 Meeting with Indian elephants – view of the wolves in the Valley of the Elephants (held only in good weather)
• 14.00 Meeting with Karelian reindeer
• 14.30 Meeting at Indian Takin
• 15.30 Meeting with Bear Devils – Darwin Crater

January 6: Three Kings

They will walk around the zoo and give small gifts to children’s visitors Kašpar, Melichar and Baltazar.

• 13.00 Feeding of bipedal camels

From December 27 to 29, the animals at the Prague Zoo will receive not only food that will bring them visitors during Christmas, but also unused Christmas trees. Photo by Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo