African Safari Style Entrance

Dec 2008. The thatched roof is actually much larger than what is shown in the photograph, and it is quite an introduction to the zoo.

The African exhibits would have been better and more numerous had the zoo director at the time insisted on a thatched roof for the zoo's entrance building. Because of costs related to the thatching and hiring African workers to build it, many things had to be scaled back for the African exhibits, including the underwater viewing for elephants.