Calauit Safari Park. We woke up at an ungodly hour and prepped for a three-hour
van ride to Calauit Safari Park. There's a lot to be said about the unpaved
roads on the way; I felt like I was inside a blender. After a
five-minute boat ride, we finally reached Calauit with our internal organs
intact. Calauit Safari Park is "a small slice of Africa," said the
tour guide. It has a vast open field where animals, imported from Kenya
in 1977 by former President Marcos, could roam. While the tour guide went off
to get food for the giraffe, I saw Calamian deers which were endemic in
Palawan. We stopped to take photos near a cohort of zebras feeding on grass. The eland walked away whenever we went near them. A giraffe eyed us
from the distance, and it slowly and cautiously made its way towards our vehicle.
It seems that it's been conditioned to associate a vehicle with food. We got to
feed four giraffes with branches of leaves.
We also saw a civet cat, a python, a sea eagle, a turtle, several porcupines,
and a wild pig. :)
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| Calamian deer |
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| A zebra-eland soiree |
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| Did you know that no two zebras have the same set of stripes? It's like their thumb mark; each one is unique. |
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| Graceful loping |
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| I think it's been conditioned to smile at cameras too |
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| Porcupines |
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| Injured seagull |
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| Bearded pig |
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| Camouflage tree |
5 July 2012
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