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1. Entrance and orientation
We pay the entrance fee and go through the zoo gate. We read a map and admire a gazebo. At all alley intersections there are signs with icons to guide you accordingly.
Targu Mures Zoo, Mures
The second largest zoo in Romania
Where? When? How much does it cost?
Targu Mures Zoo can be found at 57, Verii Street, code 540080. It is on the Cornești plateau, in the east of the city. On the plateau there is also a leisure train line (in February when we were there, it was not running), which has a ring route with a stop at the zoo.
Cornești Plateau it is the highest point of the city at 488 meters above sea level and located almost 200 meters from the "lower town". There are also several paths, some of them marked, going up through the oak and hornbeam forest towards the zoo. The forest here is called the "Great Forest". In the eastern part of the city, on the Cornești plateau is the Zoo, 488 m above the Black Sea and 197 m above the city. The oak and hornbeam forest, called the "Great Forest", offers ideal conditions for the animals of the garden.
Targu Mures Zoo can be visited daily for a fee between 9 - 16. The last exit is at 17. A full ticket costs 20 lei, a split ticket 10 or 5 lei. There are special rates for families with more than 1 child, for organized groups.
About Targu Mures Zoo
The story of the Targu Mures Zoo begins in 1960 as a small garden with only 10 animals. Today it hosts on 40 hectares about 750 animals of 150 species divided in 5 sectors. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city.
Entrance to the Zoo
The train station
Map
pictogram indicators
2. Right side of the entrance
We start in Monkey Pavilion. We plan to make a counter-clockwise loop. This means that at the first fork we turn slightly right. The alley is guarded by a African ostrich and we'll keep an eye on him.
We appreciated the existence of bilingual panels, in Romanian and Hungarian, with educational themes, such as "How to help birds in winter?"
They looked down on us, crows and vultures, the last ones with a sharp, piercing look.
Very soon we have to meet the pleasant surprise of our visit. As we headed towards the peacocks, who were screaming terribly shrilly, we met ... a Asian peacock, which circulates freely in the alleys, and even gives the impression that he's taking pictures.
At the far right end of the multi route loop pony serving breakfast.
The African mudpuppy
How to help birds in winter?
corbul
eagle
Peacocks in the garden paths
I put
3. Hot Pavilions
From cold to ... too hot. We enter a pavilion that requires warmth for its inhabitants. It is the place reptiles, including a crocodile that looked like it wanted to get out of its tank, and the turtles were swimming.
Still in the heat tarantula yes snakesbut also exotic fish.
Another pavilion was full of life and movement. Birds among which parrots, parakeets, parakeets were bustling about because they had grain.
crocodile
turtle
tarantula
python
Golden cary
birds
Nimfa parrots
Ara parrot
perusii
cacadu
4. Back garden
Again we swap the warm air and chirping for the cool outside air and the spectacle of the horns.
A separate pavilion is the elephant.
We reached a place where we passed with some excitement because on the right was the territory bison, bordered by a 2 bar fence, which I imagined as a trampoline only good for jumping for the imposing herbivores. Gorgeous bison.
In the distance were zimbrii and, as luck would have it, between the buffalo and the buffalo grazing deer.
I'll leave proof that I love the bear.
The Elephant
Bison
The Zebra
Deer
5. Left side of the entrance
Dingo was cheerful if you ignore us.
Pecari Pig is a childhood memory of an educational card game. Now I finally saw it live.
We are in the second half of our tour where we are just "outside" to say hello deer, ostrich, tiger, polar wolf.
On the opposite side in an icy lake on which the winter sun wanted to beat the ice, the grunting and splashing attracts our gaze.
Towards the end we see kangaroos playing in the snow.
We reach the wide alley that we had entered a couple of hours before.
Pecari Pig
Dog Dingo
Nandu creek
Tiger
Polar wolf
Birds of prey
Kangaroos
Conclusion and evaluation
At Târgu Mureș Zoo, our favorites were peacocks, parakeets, bison, polar wolf. We would have appreciated it if the gravel walkways had been cleaned and if there had been more modern, newer display systems. Of course at the zoo it's easy to feel like a kid again even if you pay for an adult ticket.
All the best!
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