The Melbourne Zoo is located in Parkville (Parkville), the northern suburb of Victoria's capital Melbourne, about 5 kilometers from downtown Melbourne and covers an area of about 22 hectares.
Founded in 1862, Melbourne Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in Australian history.
Melbourne Zoo is recognized as one of the world's best zoos, and is popular with visitors for its ingenious garden design. It houses about 320 species of animals from around the world, including koalas, kangaroos, platypus, penguins, seals, hippos and so on. The animals make up 15% of the total number of Australian animals. The most striking is the world's first gorilla to use artificial insemination. The zoo is also very green and environment, the garden planted more than 20,000 species of plants, exotic flowers, colorful, a variety of birds including peacocks on the lawn free to walk. Here animals and nature, animals and people, people and natural relationship are handled very well, many animals and people can communicate and contact directly.
Melbourne Zoo offers free guided tours, all of which are volunteers and are specially trained to answer the audience's questions.
Zoo Map (Click Download PDF Edition):
There are several restaurants in the garden:
- Elephant Village Cafe( near the Elephant House, with a variety of dishes in Southeast Asia)
- Giraffe LookoutCafe (BBQ lunch, perfect location for giraffe show)
- Zoo Bakery( the bakery in the zoo, near the Japanese garden)
Every day there will be a fixed time for the breeders to meet with tourists to introduce the characteristics and habits of various animals, specific time:
- Koala :10:30
- Giant tortoises :10:40
- Baboon :11:00
- Elephant :11:00
- Seal :11:30
- Giraffe :11:30
- Orangutan :12:00
- Gorilla :12:30
- Lion :12.30
- Meerkat :13:00
- Elephant :14:00
- Tiger :15:20
- Penguin :15:45
How to reach:
- Self driving: according to the navigation can be driven, the park has a fee parking;
- Tram: Take tram 58 to Melbourne Zoo/ Royal Park Station (Melbourne Zoo/Royal Park Station);
- train : take the Upfield line from Flinders Street Station (Flinders Street Railway Station) to Royal Park Station (Royal Park Station);
Ticket price:
- Adult :$38
- Children (4-15 years old): Free weekends and holidays, usually $19
- Infants (under 4 years of age): free
