Knuthenborg Safari Park.

We’ve been lucky to experience many different things in our time here so far … I realised just how much we have seen and done when we were looking for something different to do this weekend (something FUN! requested Hugo. Because, you know, mostly we make him do horrible, boring things.)

Many of the suggestions were for things we’d already seen, so we decided to go further afield to Knuthenborg Safari Park. It’s located near the town of Maribo, about 1.5 hours drive south from Copenhagen (maybe less, if you know where you’re going). We’d been to Woburn Safari Park in England but this was waaaaay better. The animals were right up close … really, really close sometimes. There is an extensive playground for the children, and while some of the areas are defined as “stay in the car”, in a lot of places you can park and walk right up to the animals (if you want to!).

We got really lucky with the weather, it was a fantastic Autumn day, sunny and warm, and I’d say we had a FUN! day. The lemurs were fearless, quite happy to walk along with us. The rhinos passed so close to the car, I was glad we had the windows up. Hugo was fine with the rhinos (I guess he’s had experience with big game animals) but got very worried when I wound the window down to take a photo of the camels - he really didn’t want the camels to come over to the car. We pondered together, if wallabies are Australian, but they live in Denmark, do they speak English, or Danish? (A little bit of both, we decided).

I think Hugo’s favourite part of the day was riding the monkey-bus. Sophie’s favourite part was eating ice-cream (or possibly the monkey food she sampled on the monkey-bus).