We woke up early to head off to Beauval Zoo and had some trouble with the Sat Nav, it didn’t seem to want to go on the most obvious route displayed. It turned out the road which is a new road was listed as not in use. However, human instinct took over (Tony’s) and we got to the Zoo quicker than the Sat-Nav would have took us.

The zoo was a huge place and we saw so many animals and birds. For big cats, there were several White Tigers and also there were 4 cubs – so cute!! Other cats were White Lions, Pumas, Jaguars, Servils and the usual tigers and lions. On the exotic side of things, there were Koalas, Manatees (including twin born manatees), tree kangaroos, red pandas and racoons.

The penguins, sea lions and Otters had their own pool which had see-through glass, where you can see them swimming. We sat and watch a large bird of prey show, where they were flying as many as 10-15 birds each time ranging from Vultures, Hawks, Eagles and some which we couldn’t make out.

After spending 7 hours in the zoo, we headed back to the hotel and got some food. Tony went back out again to take some photos of the Loire River.