Visit to Taiping Zoo

29-Apr-2006 Sunday - 7:45am Papa woke mommy up to had breakfast and get ready to Taiping zoo. Papa is looking for the Taiping Map from the web site, the most rediculous thing is the taiping zoo did not link to the Map at all. I want to make a comment here : - I wonder how foreigner look at "cuti cuti Malaysia" year since there're no proper Map or webpage to tell people on the directions.
at 9:30am we finally out from home, this is first time we bring Vernon travel by car in Malaysia. I am wearing a red t-shirt and Bebe vernon is also wearing Red color Jumper. a matching mother & baby shirt....haa.....aaa Vernon is so excited in the car although it is time for his morning Nap.
Papa dare not speed on the highway as his little boy is in the car, so lots of car over took him. We took about 1 hour to reach taiping. when we get there, we saw the taiping zoo signboard which was already faded and still nothing was done by the city council. This is why I am saying this year should call : cuti cuti to "holland".
Luckily I asked my sister for direction the night b4 and we did not take very long to reach the zoo front gate. Papa bought the ticket and we headed to the entrance to ask for the Zoo Map. The person handed over the map and we went up to the tram. The gate to the tram is so narrow until our stroller almost cannot get through.........they should design a wider gateway.
We have to occupy 2 rows of the tram due to our bulky stroller. The weather is so nice, not hot at all.......this is a perfect day to visit the zoo.
Vernon is so happy, keep clapping hand while seeing the animals along the side. He even gave friend kisses to those animals...............................
When we reach the last stop, we went down from the tram to take some picture. Who knew, it suddenly started to rain, so we quickly went to the nearest shelter. There were so many there whom cannot go home due to the heavy rain. One thing I wanted to comment : I found that our locals visitors did not care about their chirldren and allowed them to dump rubbish (food wrapers, ice cream sticks, etc...on the floor). The adults even showed bad example by simply damaging the plants by plucking big leafs to use as umbrella, and some ask their children to move benches from one spot to another area :( .
As the rain still did not stop, so we have no choice but to feed vernon there. We then use the stroller rain cover to cover Vernon and walk out to the exit gate. Everyone were looking at us when we use the stroller rain cover which is a very unusual thing in Malaysia.
After calling my sister to ask where is the best place to eat out, we went to Jalan kota to have lunch. I ordered a bowl of Pan Mee.....so yummy. Vernon love it so much, he was asking one spoon full after another. Then we ordered Rojak as appetizer. The food in Taiping is not so bad.
After lunch, we drove around the town before heading back to Penang.