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LONDON ZOO IS taking bookings for a new safari lodge it is building in the lion enclosure to allow visitors to get a taste of exotic holidays in the centre of the capital.
The “room with a zoo” is located in the Land of the Lions exhibit, which will be home to a breeding group of endangered Asiatic lions when it opens next year.
An overnight stay costs from €525 for two people, including a drink and two-course dinner, breakfast, an overnight stay in a lodge and a tour before the zoo opens.
Emma Taylor, head of product development at the zoo, said in a statement it would be “a fantastic experience unlike any other, sleeping near to our magnificent Asiatic lions”.
Visitors will stay at the Gir Lion Lodge, a collection of nine wooden cabins “within roaring distance” inside the enclosure and surrounded by protective fence.
The accommodation design is inspired by guest houses close to the lions’ native habitat in the Gir Forest, a protected area of western India which is a safari destination and the only place where Asiatic lions remain in the wild.
Asiatic lions, which are smaller than African lions, were hunted to the brink of extinction before their population recovered to number about 500 in the wild.
London Zoo hopes that its lion exhibit will help its conservation efforts in India, where it plans to help patrolling efforts, train local staff and educate local communities.
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I’m counting at least three UFOs in the picture…
They’re here… and not a moment too soon…
If you have identified them are they still technicaly ufos
I only spotted them, still don’t know what they are; ergo UFOs…
I can only see two ufos and a smudge
I’m certain the smudge is swamp gas tho
Up above the streets and houses
Rainbow flying high
Everyone can see it smiling — over the sky.
Thanks Jazz, now the rainbow theme tune is stuck in my head. Paint the whole world with a RAINBOW
Sorry Bungle.
Quick get the pot of gold
Looks like it’s coming from Berties house.
Some great views from the Ulster bank building all the same.
Buildings
Go jump off one ;)
Keaneland. Thats the custom house building. Not the 4 courts.
Anyone know why some rainbows appear flattened? Is it to do with the shape of the raindrops?
Nice symbolic image for litigious Ireland, there is always a croc of gold to be found in the courts.
Rainbow coming from Berties house.
First I thought u were talking about the big UFO shaped cloud on the left but then saw the 3 shapes, is it just a blurry pic?
Yes, it really is magical. So magical that even though it was taken on May 23, 2015 (the day the result of Ireland’s Marriage Equality Referendum was announced), not only did it travel all round the world to places as far away as America, where it was seen as proof that Nature and/or ‘god’ approved of the result (see here at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/23/1387196/-Best-photo-on-the-Internets-today ), but it somehow also got magically teleported by Time Machine all the way back to The Journal in October 2013. Strange and mysterious indeed are the ways of The Great Joker in the Sky :)
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