Khao Kheow Open Zoo

I am very happy with the visit to the zoo! Had a leisure walk around and we took almost 7+ hrs (walking) First, tickets, foreigners are at bht350 each adult. If you didn't reserve tickets in advance, buy from a counter prior to entry. The gate staff will be happy to guide your driver if you go by grab. Lots of parking spaces. Take a picture of your ticket just in case. Collect a map of the place to help guide your around. Look out for the show time of the day. Why I truly like this place and areas that may not be to some visitor's expectation: 1. Great open zoo as it's called! Watch the animals at close distance and some without barriers like the deers. 2. Buy food for animals at 30 or 50 BHT depending on types which is really amazing especially for children. 3. Must go: the savannah area! 4. Must go: see Moo Deng! ;) 5. Lots of different species, huge variety, quantity for some species are not many but really enjoyed the variety. 6. Love most: the nature and openness of the zoo. Really fantastic 7. The show may not be like showcase of animals skills but opportunities to feed and see and sometimes touch the animals up close. Really great experience still 8. The show of elephant relaxing is interesting as you can choose to go basement to watch the elephant enjoying inside the water 9. The zoo has many drinks and snacks and lunch places. Had a good coffee at The Hive, right next to the penguin show place. 10. Big space so consider renting the golf cart or electric cart if you need some help with saving leg muscles. The electric cart can only enter the green zone. The zoo has 2 zones, green and red. Green has more species. Red has more areas including training areas/stay and a great tiger village area. The red would require a little more walking as more slopes. The nice weather in Nov really helps with the enjoyment of the zoo. Staff are all very friendly and helpful! Consider bringing food for a little picnic while enjoying the place. But watch out for monkeys as they are freely roaming and may snatch your stuff!

Huge open style zoo with lots to see. The best option is to rent a golf cart. We spent two hours shopping between exhibits and saw about 20% of the zoo. The highlights were feeding the deer, seeing Moodeng (baby pygmy hippo), lemur Island, Tiger Valley and the lake - wish we had time to do the zip line! I liked this zoo better than Melbourne zoo, Werribee and Chiang Mai Zoo. If you walk, you will likely only get to see the green zone. However, the pink zone offers some of the better and more picturesque enclosures and a wide variety of animals including a Gaur encloser and massive bird aviary. Downsides. The monkeys are little thieves stealing both our kids icecreams. The penguin enclosure is very dirty and needs renewal as does the space for the penguin show. The road in the pink zone is shared between golf carts and cars/mini buses. It felt like most drivers had road range trying to pass us in the cart. The mini buses also drove aggressively, cutting us off and blocking the road.

We had such a fun day at Khao Kheow Open Zoo — it’s one of the best wildlife outings near Pattaya! The park is huge and beautifully set against lush hills, so it feels more like a nature adventure than just a zoo. There are tons of animal species to see (from giraffes and rhinos to elephants and lemurs), and numerous opportunities to get close — like feeding giraffes or deer — which made the visit really memorable.