Lions and tigers and bears

Going through this blog I realise that I forgot to mention an outing we took a couple of months ago to Fuji Safari Park. I'd include a link to the website except it's all in Japanese. Anyway, a picture tells a thousand words, so here are a few:


Ummm.....


Oookaaaay......


Are lions perhaps the most impressive animals on the planet?


That's a piece of fruit at the end of a giant pair of tongs. Craig's hand was at the other end.


Now WE did it the fun way. The poor suckers who drive through this place not only are not allowed to open their windows or get out of their cars, but they're not even allowed to stop and drink in whatever spectacle happens to be before them (lucky they don't have to pay extra to drive through).




It's a hard life!


Are meerkats perhaps the funniest animals on the planet?


Can't get away from 'em even in Japan! Well, I guess no-one in Australia wants albino kangaroos anyway.


The quintessential Japanese scene in the background... with some quintessential Australiana in the foreground.

So, how do you get to Fuji Safari Park from Numazu? You take the Kozu train to Gotemba, and from there a bus right to the front door of the zoo. The train takes about half an hour and the bus takes about 45 minutes (from memory -- sorry, it was a while ago now).