Christmas show Prague Zoo, children on Christmas Day behind the crown – Cysnews
Throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays, visitors to the Prague Zoo can look forward to a rich program of traditional and special guided feeds and gatherings. On Christmas Day, visitors can present animals with food and children have a suitable entrance only for a crown.
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: Nadílka u zvířat – handing over unused Christmas trees and feeding the animals they 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 Eve – 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
TITLE Photo: 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