Head to head, queues for bears and ice cream. The Prague Zoo has a record number of visitors
At the weekend, the Prague Zoo entered the new season with record attendance, there were queues for entry, ice cream and pavilions. After pandemic years, when the breeders struggled with restrictions, over 200,000 visitors have come to see the area since the beginning of the year. The biggest onslaught was at the zoo over the weekend. In addition to Czech families with children, Ukrainians also filled the exhibition.
The Prague Zoo started the season last Saturday. The sunny weather and the entrance for a symbolic price for the Ukrainians attracted thousands of visitors to the complex, and at noon the number on the counter jumped over ten thousand. Although most Czechs see the financial relief for refugees from Ukraine as a helpful step, there are also people who help criticize.
“You can’t imagine what we have for e-mails and phone calls. Someone wants to enter for Czech children for a crown, that it ‘won’t cost us anything’, then the widower says that he should have it for a crown, and a lady again It bothers that we announce tours for Ukrainian children on the Ukrainian website, “Miroslav Bobek, the director of the Prague Zoo, wrote on Twitter.
Ukraine Zoo also helps in other ways. This weekend, the area was visited by the Ukrainian ambassador to the Czech Republic, Yevhen Perebyjnis, who received a check for approximately CZK 250,000 to help the zoo in Mykolaiv. The Czechs contributed another three and a half million crowns to the public collection for feed and veterinary supplies, which Prague sends to Ukrainian animal breeders.
Despite the war in the east, the mood in Troy was in good spirits. The whole family, including pets, went to the complex. Look at.