Drive Thru Park

Rizz Carlton

Rizz Carlton

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Drive Thru Park is a new park by the Jawa Timur Park group and is located in the same complex as Batu Secret Zoo and Eco Green Park as part of Jatim Park 2. It's hailed as the " first drive thru zoo" in in the world. Visitors can either drove through the main park with their private car or by electric cars provided by the park and droven by the park's staff. The park is located in what used to be the "Safari Farm" that was once part of Batu Secret Zoo.

Unlike most safari park, most of the animals here are confined in a cage and were not free-roaming, though this was probably due to the park seemingly avoiding being marketed as a safari park to support their "drive thru" zoo brand more, whatever that means.

Based on a video of a recent visit, this is most of the species held there and some interesting stuffs, of course excluding their non-animal attractions and exhibits.

P.s. note that this list are incomplete as the original video uploader skipped a lot of stuffs.

Main drive thru
  • Malayan tapir
  • Australian pelican
  • Southern white rhinoceros
  • Scimitar oryx
  • Common eland
  • Ratite complex with South African ostrich, greater rhea, and southern cassowary
  • Multiple aviaries, Including for Indian peafowl (Including white peafowl), rhinoceros hornbill, knobbed hornbill, green-winged macaw, and scarlet ibis
  • Chital
  • Saltwater crocodile
  • Javan rusa deer
  • Nigerian dwarf goat
  • First tiger complex
  • Llama
  • Second tiger complex

  • Gibbons aviaries
  • Ankole-Watusi
  • Common eland
  • Texas longhorn cattle
  • Gypsy horse
  • Nilgai
  • Grant's zebra
  • A aquarium, which include a large saltwater tank housing a pair of hawksbill sea turtle
  • Second Javan rusa deer exhibit
  • Alpaca
  • Brutus the Indian rhinoceros
  • Aviary for patas monkey
  • Camel complex
  • Free-roaming section with donkey and pony
  • Elk
  • Follow deer
  • Plains bison
  • White lion
  • Aviary for ring-tailed lemur
  • Aviary for "over 40 different birds"
  • Monkey complex with red-tailed guenon, wolf's guenon, and lion-tailed macaque

Rest Area
Like the name said, this is where people buy food and beverage. There's also several exhibits here.
  • In the amphitheater show, there's a session where visitors can very closely interact and feed several ostriches
  • A petting zoo with Shetland ponies, Nigerian dwarf goat, chickens, and alpacas
  • A exhibit for an plains bison
  • A exhibit for domestic coypus
The rest area also contained an "Active Indoor Zoo". Where visitors would go by foot inside a building with several smaller species in several rather strange exhibits.
  • Two small glassed exhibits in the entrance that include a cotton-top tamarin and a unknown squirrel
  • A exhibit with African spurred tortoise, white peafowl, golden pheasant and several tethered parrots
  • A tank for gara rufa and presumebly other garra species.
  • Several tanks and terrariums with one housing an albino iguana
  • An tethered Australian pelican
  • A guinea pig exhibit
  • A Asian small-clawed otter exhibit
  • Komodo dragon
The other walkthrough exhibit is called "Secret Jungle", a South American-themed walkthrough exhibit with more free-roaming inhabitants.
  • Greater flamingo
  • Scarlet ibis
  • White-cheeked pintail
  • Ringed teal
  • An reticulated python exhibit below the path, supported by chain-links

This.. is a very strange place in my opinion. There's several interesting species but the aesthetics of this place, and frankly all the zoos under Jatim Park, are horrendously ugly. The Indian rhinoceros and lion-tailed macaque are the only two thing worth visiting about this place atleast for me.

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So there doesn't seem to be anything special from this park aside from the Indian Rhinoceros, which BSZ's curator says will be returned to the zoo sometime in the future.

Note as well that the parks have different curators, which explains why while BSZ and Eco Green Park look classy, this park looks like Gembira Loka and Jurug back in the early 2000s, bright colors and all.
 
 
 
Mossman Joe said:
Drive Thru Park received a cheetah which they've (somewhat unfortunately) named Sissy. Note that this species is not present in Batu Secret Zoo, further separating the two collections.

Drive Thru Park - Jatim Park 2 on Instagram: "WELCOME TO DRIVE THRU PARK, SISSY SOBAT DTP, UDAH PERNAH LIHAT CHEETAH IN REAL LIFE?? KALAU BELUM, YUK KETEMUAN SAMA SISSY SI CHEETAH INI SISSY ITU SEEKOR CHEETAH BETINA DAN DIA LUCU BANGET LO SOBAT, SELAIN MODEL DAN SUARANYA YANG KAYA KUCING INI TERNYATA SISSY PUNYA KELEBIHAN YANG GA SEMUA SATWA PUNYA, YAITU DIA BISA BERLARI SAMPAI KECEPATAN 130KM/JAM‍♀️ GIMANA? UDAH GEMESIN, KEREN LAGI‼️ BURUAN DEH DATENGIN DRIVE THRU PARK BUAT KETEMU LANGSUNG SAMA SISSY YUK “UCAPIN WELCOME TO DRIVE THRU PARK SISSY” DI KOLOM KOMENTAR‼️"
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Batu Secret Zoo did have cheetah very early on the years, I believe in where the outdoor snow leopard exhibit is (Which later on became an African lion exhibit before being fully-revamped into a snow leopard exhibit in 2021).

I do wonder how Drive Thru Park curating works, since they technicaly don't have specialty not probably interest on certain group (Eco Active Park with birds and Batu Secret Zoo that put efforts into breeding projects). My guess (And by the look of it), the management team at Drive Thru Park appears to be the same to that of Batu Secret Zoo's early years; interesting species for local guests, yet mostly bad exhibits and overly-colorful decorated themes.

Brutus the Indian rhinoceros and some others are definitely leftover from the former Safari Farm rides (With Batu Secret Zoo reportedly trying to get him back, hopefully).
 
Rizz Carlton said:
Batu Secret Zoo did have cheetah very early on the years, I believe in where the outdoor snow leopard exhibit is (Which later on became an African lion exhibit before being fully-revamped into a snow leopard exhibit in 2021).

I do wonder how Drive Thru Park curating works, since they technicaly don't have specialty not probably interest on certain group (Eco Active Park with birds and Batu Secret Zoo that put efforts into breeding projects). My guess (And by the look of it), the management team at Drive Thru Park appears to be the same to that of Batu Secret Zoo's early years; interesting species for local guests, yet mostly bad exhibits and overly-colorful decorated themes.

Brutus the Indian rhinoceros and some others are definitely leftover from the former Safari Farm rides (With Batu Secret Zoo reportedly trying to get him back, hopefully).
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I hope Batu Secret Zoo can get the rhinos back, since I feel that Drive Thru Park looked kinda unsuitable, being an entertainment-focused zoo than what BSZ is
 
Rizz Carlton said:
Several babies has been birthed in Drive Thru Park since December of 2024, including;
  • An Shetland pony
  • An scimitar oryx
  • Two fallow deer
  • An common hippo named Puma

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Drive Thru Park - Jatim Park 2 on Instagram: "WELCOME OUR NEWBORN BABIES Drive Thru Park kedatangan anggota keluarga baru lagi nih Mereka adalah Baby Pony, Bany Oryx dan Baby Fallow Deer YUK‼️ Ucapin Welcome To The World dan doakan mereka semua supaya sehat selalu di kolom komentar yah"

Drive Thru Park - Jatim Park 2 on Instagram: "WELCOME BABY PUMA Tanggal 17 Desember 2024 kemarin, telah lahir di Drive Thru Park seekor bayi kuda nil yang gemesin bernama Puma Puma merupakan anak dari Binggo dan Pumi ‼️ Yuk ucapin "Welcome To The World Baby Puma" di kolom komentar buat menyambut hadirnya makhluk gemesin satu ini"
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A hippo named Puma?! What's next? a tapir named Jaguar?
 
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