Hello everyone, Today we make you an exceptional article about Pairi Daiza Resort. A sumptuous “garden of the worlds” located less than 3 hours from Paris!
Pairi Daiza covers more than 65 hectares and amazingly, this paradise on earth has been around since 25 years! What was our surprise to discover for the first time this unique site in Europe.
Because we care about animal welfare, the idea of discovering animals in pens has been difficult for us since we discovered park safaris, like Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s 44 hectares in Florida and especially the 142 hectares of Six Flags Wild Safari at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. Pairi Daiza doesn’t look like a same paradise for our animal friends. But it was without counting on our experience on the spot that convinced us that animal welfare could also exist in a zoo.
Some of Pairi Daiza’s 2019 awards:
● 2018-2019 “Best Zoological Park in Europe” at the Diamond ThemePark Awards, the “Oscars” of Theme Parks and Zoological Gardens.
● More beautiful animal habitat
● Most Beautiful Birth ( Sungai little Sumatran orangutan born October 30, 2018)
●”Best Animal Presentation” for elephant bathing
To discover this unique place in Europe, we decided to stay half-board at its new Padding Bear hotel in the Canadian area of British Columbia. This area is also home to Native American cottages Native Village and cave houses Full Moon Lodge. The houses and cottages offer a view of the pens with bears for one and bears and wolves for the second. Our accommodation was located in the main building offering views of the seaside area with the sea lions and the bar, Octopus restaurant and shop.
Surprisingly, marmots watch us in our comfortable cage serving as the hotel’s bar.
The rooms are spacious, modern, comfortable, quiet and in a minimalist style. Each stay is obligatory associated with half-board, dinner and breakfast in the Octopus restaurant.
The Octopus restaurant offers a gourmet menu with quality dishes with a pleasant service in a refined setting. The products are all cooked on-site, fresh and in the Canadian theme.
For breakfast, the products are also of quality. Fresh fruit juice with original compositions (raspberry, orange and pear), sweet and savoury choices in numberated at the buffet. And we can encounter with an american Raptors.
The advantage of staying on site is undeniable, beyond the four-star hotel service in the room, and the very good restaurant, it is also a comfort to relax during the long days of visiting and discover 24 hours per day the whole new “Last Frontier” area for the residents after the park closes. Because yes….. who tells you wolves sleep at midnight?
Now that you’ve seen the hotel area, let’s discover The Garden of the Worlds!
The park include eight gardens, and there are as many universes to discover. Because where the world of Last Frontier must give the plants time to take root since its opening on June 22, the rest of the park is well anchored in exotic worlds.
Le Royaume de Ganesha
Ganesha’s Kingdom
Welcome to a thousand-year-old kingdom where the joy of water and the serenity of animals are one.
Between temples of Angkor, Indonesia and Thailand, you can see Asian elephants, white tigers or Orangutan.
Asia and its rice fields, an iconic landscape that the park highlights as it enters this garden. While indiawater buffaloes chew nonchalantly under fresh water descending from the plantations of a Hindu temple (Pura Agung Santi Buwana). Tigers and leopards enjoy the sun in the temples of Angkor.
It is on the upper part of the rice fields that the Pura Bunga: the temple of flowers. Overlooking the site it offers an extraordinary view of the park and its animals. More surprisingly, you will find within it a real temple made of carved marble leading to the habitat of the Orangutans.
One of the remarkable points of the park is the interior for the animals. Every habitat, whether that of the Pandas, Orangutan or Gorillas is isolated from others sounds, limited to the number of visitors in the building and it is clearly displayed not to use devices with flashes. Thus the animal is as less “disturbed” as possible in its adapted cabin and it is free to move, whether indoors or outdoors at its convenience.
Finally, the Palais d’Ani is open to us with its 8 hectares dedicated to the Asian elephants and its three elephants. A vast territory between palaces and craftsmen’s workshop.
The Land of Origins
Giraffe, lions, rhinoceros, gazelles, elephants, hippopotamus, monkeys, gorillas, lemurs and many others. Here we are on hot countries where herbivore rub shoulders in a mixture of arid and humid landscapes with a giant waterfall.
Lions sleep in a plain where a plane ran aground near an African village.
There is no doubt, the adventure is at the rendezvous especially with two large volcanoes where two groups of gorillas have chosen home, each on its territory. To separate these two tribes, an island, where lemurs will keep you company when they have fun riding on you safely.
For explorers, a boat filled with reptiles like snakes, spiders, lizards or crocodiles awaits you before landing on a floating village.
The Middle Kingdom
China in all its splendour, in gardens and a succession of panoramas that will disorient you, and surprise you, inviting you to meditation. It is a mixture of wisdom and fantasy, all accompanied by emblematic species.
Giant pandas, red pandas, collared bears, snow panthers, exotic fish, monkeys from Japan and Even the deer of Father David (2000 specimens only in the world) await you between the twenty pavilions, tea houses, temple and palace of delights.
The pavilions, temple and palace of delights are mansions imported from China to be assembled in Pairi Daiza.
This universe is currently in the middle of an expansion to become a real area. At present there is a seaplane, a restaurant, the park’s steam train maintenance centre with some queens, bison and other rodents.
Cambron entre ciel et mer
Cambron Town : between Sky and Sea
Welcome to the historic part of the park, whose area refers to the city where the park is located. Here, farm animals and birds under greenhouses including one of 7,000-square-metre rub shoulders in a rustic setting of small flowery village where a real steam train is never far to go around the park.
it is overlooking a “waterfront” with its lighthouse that an old bourgeois mansion welcomes visitors to discover an aquarium offering an odyssey between Captain Nemo’s voyage and maritime exploration.
Finally, the last world offers a small stopover in Australia where kangaroos, pelicans, tropical birds and the famous koalas welcome you.
Pairi Daiza is undoubtedly a place full of surprises for which a long weekend will be necessary to fully appreciate the beauty of the gardens and the serenity of the animals. Everything is put together for the change of scenery of visitors.
This garden of the worlds is undoubtedly a qualitative destination, or even more so on some points, than Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. More broadly it ranks among the largest in the leisure sector for the global experience offered to its visitors.
We will definitely return to Pairi Daiza!
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