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Zoo de la Palmyre (France)

Description: Address: BP 08 / F-17570 Les Mathes / Charente-Maritime / France

Newest Review: ... had just finished building a new primate area, because you could walk thought the indoor section, but it was spotlessly clean and looked unused. Again the chimps, orans and gorillas looked in very good condition and had a nicely organised area, with plenty of climbing apparatus and space. The zoo booklet and all the billboards in the immediate area show the polar bear as the main ... more

... attraction. And whilst it'd been some years since I'd seen a polar bear, I wish I hadn't seen this one, because it was obviously quite mad. There were 2 bears, one was just calmly sleeping at the back of the enclosure, but the other was in the water, right ...more

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Zoo de la Palmyre (France): One of the most renowned zoos in Europe - Or so the brochure ... (1539 words)
by - written on 08/06/09 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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Palmrye Zoo is on the west cost of France in the Charente region, it's located between Saintes and La Rochelle. It boasts of having 1600 animal and being 30 acres of the most important zoological garden in France. Finding the zoo is reasonably simple, unless you have a strange satnav (as we did) who likes to take you on a magical mystery tour first. For people without satnav, the roads are well signposted from several miles out. General information on the zoo first. The zoo is open all year: 9am-7pm April to September, 9am-6pm rest of year. Sea lion and parrot shows run from April to end of October. The zoo is wheelchair accessible. Parking is ... Read the complete review