Photo Caravan Safari: Like Africa, But Closer
Ride through vast fields full of African and Asian animals on Photo Caravan safaris at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. The Photo Caravans offer guests an intimate adventure inside the Wild Animal Park’s field habitats. Guests have opportunities for close-up photography as massive Indian rhinoceroses lumber alongside vehicles and curious giraffes peer into the camera lens from inches away. There may even be opportunities to feed these magnificent animals! Guests get close with animals including Cape buffalo, wildebeest, East African crowned cranes and more.
Photo Caravan Safari tours are available for passengers 6 and older. Several tours are available ranging from 1 hour to 4¼ hours. Prices start at $69 per person. Reservations are required and seating is limited. Call 619-718-3000 or 800-407-9534 Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or book online at www.sandiegozoo.org. Same-day reservations may also be made at the Wild Animal Park, subject to availability.
There are a variety of Photo Caravan tours guests can choose from, including some that are offered only at certain times of the years and others with special themes.
Among the options:
· Adventure Caravan is a 1¾-hour tour focused on either the Africa or the Asia field exhibits
· Adventure Caravan Deluxe is a 3½-hour tour that travels through both the Africa and Asia field exhibits. There is potential for guests to feed both giraffes and rhinos.
· Snapshot Caravan is a 1-hour tour that allows guests to go through the field enclosures and get up close to animals.
· Family Caravan starts with a pre-tour up-close animal encounter and lasts 2½ hours.
· Night Moves Caravan, for ages 21 and over only, is an animal courtship-centered late afternoon or evening tour that explores how rhinos, giraffes, and other animals choose their mates. Guests may observe animal mating behaviors.
The 1,800-acre San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park is operated by the not-for-profit San Diego Zoo and includes a 900-acre native species reserve. The organization focuses on conservation and research work around the globe, educates millions of individuals a year about wildlife and maintains accredited horticultural, animal, library and photo collections. The Zoo also manages the San Diego Zoo in downtown San Diego, and the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research. The important conservation and science work of these entities is supported in part by The Foundation of the Zoological Society of San Diego.
