Day 5, ZooSafari

ZooSafari, huh, not even sure what to say. The main part of the park is a zoo, sort of like a normal zoo but without cages, that you drive through. It was an interesting cultural experience for all of us, Gabri included. Predators like lions and tigers are seperated off into their own areas by high fences but the main part is a giant field of old olive trees where elephants, ostriches, giraffes, horses, donkeys, zebras, etc. all roam around together. You drive through the "safari" with your windows rolled down and if you're Italian you will most likely feed them cookies or rice cakes. Or at least that's what I witnessed. It was pretty sureal for me to see carloads of gawking people feed giraffes through their windows. The lion and tiger domains were pretty impressive because they had loads of animals, at least 15 each. Anyway, at the end we sort of sped through so that we could leave that weird world behind, and enter another one.
The monkey camp. We were shoved inside of a little cage with wheels that had 3 rows of benches where 9 or 10 people were crammed together. Our cage was then locked from the outside and driven at break-neck speed through a monkey camp. Hundreds of monkeys ran around the cages screaming and shoving their little hands though tiny holes where some people were giddyingly giving them cookies and potato chips. Gabri and I were terrified (check out that look in GAbri's eyes) but Miles seemed to think it was fun.

After we were freed from our cage we took the MetroSafari which is a little Jetsons like looking train that is perched precariously above the monkey camp and other parts of the zoo and zooms and wobbles around.

We decided after that that we'd better leave the zoo. Besides after all that action we were HUNGRY and very, very thirsty. Down to the coast again for some more fish and rosato. We recovered quite nicely.