Shanghai Botanical Gardens

It is the most beautiful time of the year again! As usual, our "mandatory" park-hopping resumes. We revisited Gucun Park, Xinzhuang Park and a new place this year... the Shanghai Botanical Gardens. The weather was perfect for a day at the park. It was very sunny but cool (about 15-20C). We spent almost 5 hours there yet felt that there wasn't enough time to cover the whole place! Entrance fee to the park was RMB15 for adults and RMB7.50 for children above 1.3m in height. 

We managed to catch the International Flower Show too. Now, get ready for loads of flower pics ;)

We entered from Entrance 4 of the park (from the nearest Metro Line 3, Shi Long Road Station)

Like all other parks with tulips, this is always our favourite section!

Surprisingly, many of the spring blossoms here were still in full bloom while the same ones in our neighbourhood parks are no longer in sight...

Bumper car ride at the amusement park

All the bridges were so nicely decorated!

Let's Go to the Zoo!

Backdated post: 6 Apr 2014

This is the continuation of our Qingming weekend outing. I was given a few choices of places to visit and I picked the Shanghai Zoo (as if we didn't have enough walking on the previous day!). Anyway, we were all raring to go and both daddy and mummy didn't disagree. The weather was just too perfect for long-walk outings like this. Mummy packed some food along and we had a picnic there :) 

Entrance fee was RMB40 (RM20+) for adults and RMB20 (RM10+) for children above 1.3m in height

It's quite a scenic zoo with nice landscaping 

At the outdoor aquariums

Mini amusement park in the zoo

The first animal we looked forward to seeing was the giant panda.

Such a big zoo but only 1 panda? It was sad to see the lonely panda all by itself in such a big enclosure.

Red panda... Many of the animals here were kept in glass enclosures, which was good because we got to see them close-up. 

Pretty in pink!

White Bengal tiger

These 2 caracals were fighting!

Fresh grass, anyone?

This was our favourite :)

The zoo houses a large collection of primates. This gorilla entertained us well with its antics... from eating to prancing around and even thumping its chest with its two fists haha :D

Look, I'm almost as big as a gorilla!

Hip hip hippo! 

A very aged double-humped camel... it's so old that when it shook its body, the two humps tilted to the side of the body and looked as if they could just fall off!

Flamingoes in striking orange-y pink (which looked kinda fake)

Beautiful tulips across the lake

Cute penguins

Caged...haha!

Guess how long did we spend here? 8.30am to 5.30pm (5pm was the closing time)! Yes, we spent 9 hours in a zoo but I didn't feel tired at all and asked to come again :)