081001 - Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

Second day of Hari Raya, together with my friends and my sister, we went to Kuala Lumpur Bird Park. Kuala Lumpur Bird Park is located at Lake Garden, Kuala Lumpur.

This was my first time visit Kuala Lumpur Bird Park since 9 years I stay in Selangor. We went to Tugu Negara before Kuala Lumpur Bird Park. From Tugu Negara, we reached at the bird park about 12:00 pm. Initially we decide to go to Kuala Lumpur Orchid Farm and Hibiscus Farm which is just opposite of the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (KLBP). However we found out that it was closed down for 2 days. We left 2 choices, either Kuala Lumpur Bird Park or Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park.  Finally we decided to go to Kuala Lumpur Bird Park.

The entrance fee is RM15.00 for Malaysian and RM29.00 for foreigner.  When we bought the tickets at the counter, the cashier told us to enter quickly as there was a show going to start soon at zone 4. 

From the entrance we rushed to the zone 4 for the show. When we reached at zone 4, the parrot show was started. If you ever went to National Zoo, the show was just almost similar. Frankly speaking, the show at the bird park is better than National Zoo. The show took about 30 minutes. After the show we decided to start our visiting from zone 4.

From zone 4, we enter into Milky Way. There is water fall. The water quite clean and the birds were playing in the pond. Few Chinese duck was resting at the side of pond. You can find there were a lot of birds at that area and there are not locks in the cage.  Working around in the zone 4, you will found there were a lot of giant birds like ostrich and emu. Emu look alike ostrich. My first thought of the emu was emu also an ostrich. After reading the description and discussed with my friends we found that emus are smaller than ostrich. Besides that, emu has 3 toes each legs but ostrich has only 2 toes each legs. There is place at zone 4 for the visitor to feed parrots. For those who like to take parrot picture, this is a nice place for you to capture all nice parrots.

Moving from zone 3 and zone 4 toward zone 1 and zone 2, we found there are a lot peacocks there. The great things about the peacock are, these peacocks are not locked in the cage or a place that was fenced. You can find these peacocks working on the street. If you bring peanut, some of them will come over to you to ask for food. There are a lot peacocks inside zone 1 and 2. The peacock’s feathers were really nice. If you had been national zoo, I am sure you will see male peacocks with ugly tails. While I did my photo shooting, there was a peacock showing off its tails. It was really pretty.

The whole journey took us about 3 hours. We were quite rush on that day as most of us quite tire. My recommendation for those who plan to go to the bird park, you can plan to go early in the morning, and bring some food so that you can stay longer inside the bird park. Any way there are some stall you can bring snack as well. Do remember bring some nut for the birds like peanuts and sun flower seed. Don’t forget to bring water as I am sure you need to work a lot. Finally, bring a camera and do some photo snapping.

I should share some nice bird park photo with you soon.