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I had some prejudice going to a zoo for a team building activity with officemates and a couple of high-profile visitors from Canada. I’m not exactly an animal lover, my parents did not support animal care at home, and growing up I prefer reading animal trivia and staring at their pictures in encyclopedias than looking at them behind cages. I also thought zoo visits are not exactly for grown-ups, I’m passed the stage of second childhood and  I generally don’t like the zoo-smell because it prevents me from breathing deeply.

After almost three hours in the road, we reached Zoobic Safari. The safari-feel of the place is what sets this zoo apart from Manila zoo and reading their brochure which our tour guide handed us, it boasted that it’s the only tiger safari in the Philippines. Sounds exciting after all, and if I may add to that, it’s the only place I’ve been to that exaggeratingly used letter Z, as in zummer, zoovenir, and zooper to name a few of those “wordz”.

After having lunch in which they served freshly cut and grilled tiger-meat (kidding), we braced the heat of “zummer” and the safari tour began.

Examining my complete set of fingers and my unripped shirt, the zoo trip wasn’t as bad as I thought it be. Another place added to my “places-I-have-been-to”, a better suggestion for the kids than the Manila zoo.

Tags: Tiger, Zoobic

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