the ZOO!

this is said to be the best zoo in the country because it's situated in a forest. plus, there are hundreds of animals, a very wide array and they are so CLOSE! i apologize because my camera died about after only 1/3 of the zoo. i'll go back some time and show you the wolves, snakes, alligators, free-running chickens, elephants, giraffes you can TOUCH, hippos, rhinos, tigers, white tigers, panthers, lions, brown and black bears, camels, llamas, sharks!, and the money forest!
this is aniko', my private student turned friend. she helped me find a bookstore and atm, then took me to the zoo where she worked in high school. we went on a weekday so there was NObody there, no crowds, no kids. it was our own private zoo for about $5.



this bird can say hello.

i have no idea what this is. it looks like a cow or bull in the face, but it has a tail like a horse and is as big as a buffalo. i don't know the word for it in english or hungarian, but it exists.

empty rides
empty zoo
we saw some other people!
this is not a zoomed picture - aww, how can they have penguins!?
in an aquarium
one of my favorite hungarian words is "teknusbeka" : tek-noosh-bay-kaw which means turtle.
um, polar bears?!
reindeer!
this was supposed to be a picture of a seal which aniko' used to feed when she worked there. instead, i like this picture because you can see her happy reflection.
not zoomed. i played with him for a while because he was so sweet and cute.
see, i was trying to get him to take the leaf...
and he did! (good pic, eh?)

lemurs

after the zoo we went to the so'sto' - the salt lake. of course me and my dead camera have nothing to show for it, but i'll go there again because it was very scenic and calm. people were running, renting boats, sitting around, fishing, eating, and walking. we were the walking type.