How to visit Beijing Wildlife Park

Beijing Badaling Safari World is the largest mountainous eco-zoo in China with a total area of 400 acres. It is located at the foot of Badaling Great Wall, about 90km northeast of Beijing. Beijing Badaling Safari World is divided into 5 parts - Wild Animal Viewing Area, Mountain and Forest Sightseeing Area, Eco-Protection Area, Ancient Cultural Area and Leisure Area. Among other animals, you can also see giant pandas here, the African lions, American white tigers, brown bears and more.

Beijing Wildlife Park is located in Daxing District, about 50km north of Beijing city center. Of the three zoos in Beijing, only Beijing Wildlife Park offers the safari ride in a safari-park area of the park. The park has over 200 animal species with a total number of over 10,000 animals.

Now follow me into Beijing Wildlife Park.

Opening Hours: 8:30 - 17:30 ( all year round)

Park Entrance Fee: CNY 80 (adult), CNY 50 （Students）, CNY 55 （Senior， 65) and Free for Kids under 1.2 meters high

Bus 943: Starting from Yongdingmen (永定门）, through Yuquanying and Huangcun to Beijing Wildlife Park.

Bus 842: Starting Baiyun Road (白云路), through Yuquanying and Daxing Huandao to Beijing Wildlife Park.

Daxing Bus 28: Starting from the subway stop of Tiangongyuan (天宫院) of Subway Line 4, directly to Beijing Wildlife Park.

Beijing Wildlife Park Contact information: Tel: 010 96285360 (enquiry), 010-89216666 (ticketing） Fax: 010 89290661

At 7:30am Now we are driving on Jingkai Expressway starting from Yuquanying. There is a signboard pointing to the direction to Beijing Wildlife Park.

We are getting off the expressway at the Toll Gate of Yufa.

This is the entrance gate to Beijing Wildlife Park. The ticketing office is on the left side of the gate.

The entrance gate faces west, when you enter the gate, on your right hand, you will see a huge park map signboard which tells visitors how to visit the park.

It introduces three ways of visiting Beijing Wildlife Park - South Route Area, North Route Area and Middle Route Area. Most people would choose to walk from south and up to the north in a loop.

And seldom visitors will choose th middle way. There are some sightseeing trolleys available for those who are slow walkers.

To begin your visit starting from the south way, you just walk on your right hand and follow the Sign.

South Route Area The South Route includes Golden Monkey House, Rare Animal House, Lion & bamboo House, Bird Lane, Ostrich Park, Animal Performance Area and Trucks for safari rides.

People are watching several jumping golden monkeys at the Golden Monkey Cage House

A mandrill inside the Rare Animal House. A chimpanzee is looking at us.

Patas Monkeys. Theses are lively animals. They look clever and kind to each others.

A white cheeked gibbon

Now let's walk into Lion & Baboon House. A group of baboons living together, old and young, a happy family.

What are the lion couple thinking of? Want to return to the wild world.

A real tiger is looking at a man born in the year of tiger, feeling the mutual souls?

Ostrich Area is one of the highlights in the park. It is in a wide fenced area teemed with a quite few ostriches. You can buy the food to feed them. It is first time for me to have a close look at ostriches.

By the side of the open air animal performance theatre, there is a leisure place to for you take a break, eating fast food or have some drinks.

The animal show stats 10:30 am and 2:30pm everyday or you'd better check the actual time for performance. The show is rather circus-oriented. A monkey is pedaling a little bike across a high bridge; bears keep balance; lions are jumping through hoops and elephants act in a smart way. We also see the bears walking about on their hind legs in a human fashion.

Elephants act in a smart way.

A bear is walking on two ropes in suspension.

A monkey is riding a bike.

Lions are jumping through hoops

What are they doing? Fishing? No！

They are feeding the fish in the pond the same way as a baby is sucking a breast for milk, a kind of fish sucking food like a human baby sucking breasts for milk.

The final thing to do on the South Route Area is Safari Ride, a mesh-enclosed truck ride for an extra RMB 20. The ride makes visitors to see the animals at a close range.

We are boarding a mesh-enclosed truck holding 20 people for a 15-minute drive.

So we have to be caged in order to get a close look at the animals in the roaming area.

We are driven through the different spaces separated by double gates. We are also given a bucket of carrots to feed to some of the animals, The onboard tour guide is giving us a brief introduction to the animals in different sections.

A bear is eating a carrot offered by one of the visitors onboard.

Feeding a deer.

Feeding wildebeests

A smiling wolf

A wild boar

At the end of the South Route Area, you will find very clean 3-star toilet.

The North Route Area include Waterfowl Lake, North Bird Woods, Kangaroo Park, Tropical Birds House, Pet Paradise for kids, toilet, clinic and police station.

A pintail couple

A pair of white-fronted geese. A black swan islet.

A couple of black swans

Tip: Hassle-free Beijing Guided Tours

If you don’t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours, here are some options for Beijing guided tours:

Beijing Day Tour Beijing Tour Packages Beijing Winter Tour Beijing Autumn Tour Great Wall Tour Car Rental in Beijing Beijing Tours China City Tours China Tour

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