Prague Zoo, Prague

★Introduction ★ Prague Zoo was first opened to the public in 1931; probably before the flood of 2002 few people knew of its existence. Many of you will remember the shocking floods in central Prague in the summer of 2002. The news pictures showed the famous Charles Bridge almost totally submerged. Much of the focus of attention was however centred on Prague Zoo which is situated to the north west of Prague just metres away from the banks of the River Vlatava. Prague Zoo was well and truly put on the world map overnight because of the flood. TV images of the rescue attempts of ... more

Myself and my fiancée have just returned from a week break in Prague. As always, when we go on holiday, we try and visit as many places as possible while we are there. With both of us being massive animal lovers, one of the places we definitely wanted to visit was Prague Zoo. I am still undecided on how I feel about zoo's as I believe wild animals should be allowed to be wild. One of the reasons we were keen to visit Prague zoo was because there are heavily involved in conservation work and I believe that this is vital to help many of the animals which are becoming endangered. Location Prague ... more

Prague Zoo is situated a few miles outside the city centre itself and can be reached via the tube line C to Holesovice and then by bus 112. The bus itself can be quite an ordeal as it gets absolutely packed with passengers and reminded me more of transport in Asia than anywhere else! Thankfully it is only a few kilometres to the park entrance. Prague Zoo has changed enormously since 1931 when it opened. Back then there were only 8 hectares, and less than 100 animals, and visitors could only enter the zoo at weekends. Nowadays the Zoo receives over one million visitors a year, visiting over ... more

Prague Zoo ----------------- I have just returned form a 4 day break in Prague, when looking at places of interest to visit Prague Zoo was one which we had on our list of things to see, we were under the impression this would take up about half a day so we decided to set off at around 10.30am how wrong we were! **Background of Prague Zoo** Prague zoo was originally opened in 1931 in the Trojan Valley and consisted of only 8 hectares of accessible areas for visitors, where as today it has over 60 hectares and it now has more than 1 million visitors a year. It contains over 500 animal species ... more