Omaha Zoo

 Most of the placed we visit we suggest that “if you are ever nearby, you should check out this place.”  The Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is a different matter.  This zoo complex in Omaha, Nebraska, deserves to be a destination! Trish and I spent more than seven hours here yesterday, but we already know we want to deliberately come again.

After a golf cart tour for orientation (and some behind the scenes animal visits) we started with the apes and monkeys.  They were very active and in a huge natural environment. Every place we saw on this day looked very clean, very well maintained, and there was plenty of space.  We couldn’t even guess how many acres larger animals had in their habitat.

We watched the elephants and then got to go into their 27,000 square foot barn! All the animals here are so cared for and the zoo’s world-wide conservation work impressed us greatly.  We later visited the very tall giraffe barn.

The giraffes lived in a rolling hills huge environment but seemed to enjoy human attention. The lions environment included towering rocks the males seemed to enjoy.  They got to look down in everything!

Besides all the animals, the zoo has a long steam train that runs all the way around the perimeter, and a “Skyfari” ski life ride that gives you views from above more intimate that from down below.

Trish and I are already watching our calendar for times we can come here again.