Dickerson park zoo and Fantastic Caves - Missouri Trip (Part III)

 

Brief Summery:

Places: Dickerson park zoo and Fantastic Caves.
Location: Bentonvile, Arkansas and Springfield, Missouri.
Distance: Snake world - 52.7 miles, Springfield - 123 miles.
Members: Me, my wife and my daughter.
Duration: Snake world - 1 hour 15 mins and Springfield - 2 hours 1 min.

Experience:

20th February 
Dickerson Park Zoo and Fantastic Caverns:

The next day we woke up around 5:45am, packed our lunch and started around 9:10am. We want to book the new car which we selected on saturday.
Reached to showroom around 11:05am, booked the car and got out around 11:05am. We had our lunch around 12:10pm and then started to zoo around 12:30pm. The climate was sunny outside but still it was little cold with the wind. We reached zoo at 12:50pm. This time we also had a baby stroller like others, we were very happy about that. In the zoo first we saw small spider monkeys and peackocks. These peacocks were everywhere in the zoo. Then saw the wild boars, parrots, some other monkeys and black swan.

We saw the black swan in Vizag, India and in Thailand zoo after that here only we saw it. There was a lake and a stream, we crossed a bridge and then we went to see cheethahs. They have many cheethahs there. Couple of those were very active, their walking style was so beatiful. The bears are sleeping in a tree branch. Then the tigers and lion also taking rest , we did not get proper view of those. Then we saw wolves, which are also very active and little big in size. After we were coming back from wolves we saw tiger was roaming there so immediatly went over there. So atleast we saw tiger was roaming but the lions always sleep in zoo. Next we saw zebras and giraffies. The number of animals were less here but the area of zoo was big. After that we tried the simulator of wind cyclone in Africa, it was fun.

Then we went into reptile house, there we saw big snakes like rattle snakes, pythons, dragons, skunks, trantula, these reminded us of our yesterday's snake world trip. We saw some dangerous frogs also here, they were colorful and some were so tiny. Next one was the green anakonda, we never saw anakonda before in any zoo. This reptile house also have lot of snakes and other venamous creatures but not compared to the snake world.  Then we two big tortoises. These were very big and they were 100 years old. We saw the big tortoises before but do not the age of them and also these were kept in mirror room not in the open ground. This was also one of the good zoo, we caught two new kind of species that was cheethah and the green anakonda. We enjoyed it. 

Suddenly we realized that we were running out of time for fantastic caverns. So immediately ran to the caves around 2:40pm and reached around 3:00pm there. We enquired about the tour so they said it was about to start in 5 mins.

If we had delayed 2 more mins there we'll miss there tram tour in caves but we made it. After 5 minutes they started the tour. The tour guide has started explaining about that caves. Many years ago a tourist with his dog has found these caves. First the dog went into one hole and the man followed the dog. Then he reailized it might be a cave so he gave an advertisement in paper for the diggers. Like that these caves were found, they shown the video also of it. The tour gide explained how the people in olden days worked in caves without power. Around 4:05pm tour was ended and started to home around 4:20pm. We liked the caves very much , we have to visit these caves in tram only. Previously we visited other two types of caves one is in boat another one sand cave, like these this cave is also a different one. Around 7:50pm we reached home.

The whole trip was fantastic. In three days each day we had different experience along with fun. We enjoyed alot in this trip. All is Well.

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Snake World - Missouri trip (Part II)

 

Brief Summery:

Places:  Snake world.
Location: Bentonvile, Arkansas.
Distance: 52.7 miles.
Members: Me, my wife and my daughter.

Duration: 1 hour 15 mins

Experience:

19th February 
Snake World:

This Snake world was in Bentonville only and it waas very near to us. So we started to snake world around 2:30pm after we had lunch. The climate was so pleasant on that day. The road to the snake world was too different, it's like a snake shape only. The road passed between two mountains. Then we were going up on the mountain , we were wondering whether there was any reptile house or not. After 10 to 15 minutes around 3:40pm we saw a small house with name Snake World. We were shocked and did not expect that. Parked our car there and called to confirm that was the right address or not. They said that was the right location and coming out for us to show the snake world. A lady came out and asked us to go inside the front door and wait till she will come and show us everything. While we were waiting there she came with main door keys. She gave us tickets then we entered into the house. First we got very awful smell in that place. In first room they have some cat fishes in a tub, rats and mices also there. So many sketches, drawings and some unwanted old stuff also there.  In next room so many snakes are there in individual glass boxes. She started explaining about each snake by holding those in her hand. My wife was very scared of that and she did not want to take them out from the glass boxes. So she was explaining without taking them out from boxes. 

 They have so many kinds and colours of snakes and pythons. Some baby snakes were also there and some were so beautiful. Next we saw some monitor lizards, skunks. These snakes and lizards are harmless ones but next we entered into another room with full of rattle snakes.After we entered into this room while she was explaining my wife started take pictures of those snakes then immediately couple of snakes started rattling their tail. The sound was really scary, even though snakes were inside the boxes that entire room gave us chills wit that rattling sound. She explained so many things about the rattle snakes ecspecially small baby rattle snake was very poisnes than all other snakes because the baby one doesnot know how much amount of poison to release when it attacks so it attacks with all the poison it has. that's why it was dangerous. Then we saw one big tortoise, one big Turtle and other small turtles. 

The tortoise was exactly like a big rock and the one big turtle very strong she said the bite force very poweful like it can cut off your wrist from hand. 

 Next the small turtles were so cute and they all were feeling so shy. While she was feeding them then only one by one was coming out. And also she shown that how she feed the snakes with big tweezers. There were plenty of rats and mice in their house to feed these snakes. Some snakes only eat the rats and mice but the smaller one eat the little big insects and bugs. For all these they feed them like once a week and it will take complete 3 hours to feed them. Then we saw 3 big Pythons and small other snakes. These pythons are very big and colourfull. The Yellow one was really a beatiful one.  Other small ones were beautiful too, ecspecially the black and white one was really nice. At first we thought this snake world was a disaster and felt that we wasted our time. But it's really different one. Our opinion was completly wrong , we spent really a good time here and also we learnt alot like how they feed them, taking care of them. Commonly if it was in a Zoo we never learnt any of these except the names. We never saw any reptile house like this before. Really we had a good time here. It was really worth to come here. Around 4:50pm we got out from the snake world and started to home. We took long route to explore so this time also road so different it was like big ride and around 7:00pm we reached home.

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