The Serengeti is alive and well at the Portland Zoo . Opened in 2009, the Predators of the Serengeti exhibit is thriving and growing. Visitors get to observe the natural habitats of Lions, Cheetahs, African wild dogs, Caracals, Red-billed hornbills, Dwarf mongoose and African rock pythons. Portland’s Serengeti is on 2.5 acres of African style landscape , letting visitors watch lions rest on warm rocks or prowl through open grassland. Cheetahs quench their thirst at a waterfall-fed pool, only to lie down for a nap on-top of a hood of a safari vehicle and hear the growls of a pack of African wild dogs play a game of tag in the grasslands.
Before visitor get to see all that, they’ll enter an open-air plaza, to first see the giant branches of a life-size replica of a baobab tree. As they walk under the canopy, they’ll see traditional African huts and hear the beating of drums in the distance, as they come around a corner, Kopjes, which are giant granite boulder, jut out from the earth and a magnificently bronze carved stature of a pride of lions sits upon the Kopjes. Finally, they’ll get an unobstructed view of real life lionesses roaming the Serengeti plains; a stunning and spectacular sight and one not to miss.
Ask the concierge at any of the best Portland hotels , if a visitor, to see if they have any discounted admission coupons. The Portland Zoo, often times, will make it very easy and inexpensive for visitors to come to the zoo by giving local hotels discount coupons to offer their guests. The Portland Zoo is located at 4001 Southwest Canyon Road, not far from downtown Portland.
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