What I love about the Taipei zoo is that the enclosures are very well designed. Most animals are easily visible. Unlike some zoos you just see vegetations in the enclosure but the exhibit animals are nowhere to be seen.
in Summer if you come to Taiwan， I recommend that you go to the beach or mountain. Then it would be not that hot. Spring and autumn are better seasons to visit Taiwan. Winter is also fine but not to the northern part because it will be rainy. Southern part will be OK.
Winter here is what you’d expect, wet and cold, especially in Taipei. I’d say it’s better to come during early November or late March so it isn’t as cold for the kids to enjoy.
What's funny is that elsewhere in the world, the Wenhu Brown Line type "trains" are usually found as transit between different buildings in airports. The one in San Francisco's SFO is nearly identical. However, instead of running short trips carrying a dozen people through an airport, in Taiwan the same system is thrown into the most populated parts of the city, forced to add additional carts and travels across the river, twice, through the entire city, and then way out to the zoo. That thing is a work horse.
I know the zoo is SO big! we can't wait to go back to Taiwan. We'll definitely go back to the zoo and I for sure want to ride the Gondola up further through the tea plantations. We didn't see the zoo stamp! We'll have to look harder for that next time too!
November to February are usually the best time to visit Taiwan. Not too hot and out of rainy monsoon and typhoon seasons. Also try get out of Taipei, to Tainan, Kaohsiung or the East Coast.
There is another great place in Taipei. Very suitable for children. It can be reached directly by subway. This is the Metropolitan Park on the Xinzhuang Line of the MRT. Remember to bring food and water when you go. It's not convenient to buy food there.
That train system does come from a French company in the first place and later after few years another Canadian company took over the system and extended the route.
@14:12 Whenever I visit that part of the zoo, I feel a little bit sad. The faux ice setting was for a polar bear exhibit when the zoo first opened in 1986. However, the polar bears didn't get the AC treatment like the penguins, and were force to live surrounded by hot concrete painted to look like ice. I saw them back in the day, and they didn't last long. One passed away in just 5 years. Surprisingly, that wasn't the first time one of Taiwan's zoos tried to keep polar bears out in Taiwan's elements. The zoo in Hsinchu tried it in even more horrendous conditions in 1971. That poor bear died within a year. Hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again in Taiwan. @17:28 Misting things in the hot humid air in Taiwan definitely doesn't do anything, and in fact makes it feel more uncomfortable by increasing humidity. That stuff only works if you live in the desert parts of California or Arizona, where it's super dry and hot. I guess they just want to feel like they are doing something about the heat. I tend to think the best part about Taiwan's zoo is the pangolin exhibition. If you do get to visit the zoo again, you should definitely check it out.
