Must visit 2011

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NOTRIK

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With the year 2010 drawing to a close it's this time of year I plan for the next one I have not been around the UK collections much over the past 10years due to work but now I have semi retired just doing work already booked and no more.
I intend to catch up on the UK collections front with that in mind here are my must visit for 2011

My must visit list for uk 2011
reads as follows

Chester zoo (not been for 5 years)
Blackbrook (never been)
Edinburgh zoo (not visited in 8 years)
London zoo (not visited in 10 years)
Welsh Mountain zoo (never been)
Highland Wildlife park (never been)
Sealife Centre & Birmingham Nature Centre (never been)
Dudley Zoo & West Midlands Safari Park (visit in August due to late night opening last visit 5 years ago)
Paultons (never been)
Cotswold Wildlife Park (last visited 2 years ago)
Blackpool Zoo (last visited 10 years ago)
Weyhill (never been)
Exmoor (never been)
Drusillas Park (can't remember kast time)
Durrell (Jersey) Zoo (Last visited about 3 years ago)
Howletts Wild Animal Park (last visited 5 years ago)
Yorkshire Wildlife Park (never been)
Twycross Zoo (15 years since last visit)
Paignton Zoo (last visited about 10 years ago)

And there are the private collections that I visit at least once a year
I would be grateful if yu could give me a insight in what to look for in these collections and I would be interested to know what your must visit zoos and other collections are for 2011 and why
 
I've only started visiting animal collections seriously in the last couple of years so there are still loads of places I want to visit. Here are a few that I'd like to do next year (as well as keeping up my regularish visits to Yorkshire wildlife park, twycross, Chester, Monkeyworld and Colchester).

Port Lym and howletts
London zoo (not been for 10 years)
repeat trip to Bristol.
Would love to visit appenhal.
Flamingoland - curious to see zoo in a theme park
Wildlife heritage centre
 
there are so many zoos i would love to visit. realistically i am planning to visit the following for the first time:
-howletts
-port lympne
-chester
-ywp
-woburn

i also hope to get back to scotland and visit edinburgh and hwp (not been to either for over 2 years)

i will also try visit my nearest zoos at least once: marwell, twycross, monkey world, cotswold, chessington, bristol, london, colchester, whipsnade
 
Nothing booked yet, but we are looking at spending a week in Kent in July 2011. We went Scotland in June 2010 and did Edinburgh Zoo, Highlands Wildlife Park, Blair Drummond Safari Park and a number of wildlife watching, including 2 places with seals and a place with a trio of Peregrine falcon chicks.

If we go to Kent, we plan on doing Howletts and Port Lympne as priorities, hopefully with a few other collections thrown in :) (I'm hoping we can get down to Whipsnade or London in the year as well, curious after the recent documentary :))
 
For me next year hoping to get over to the Isle of Wight to do the collections there,the other place I would like to get over to is the Isle of Man to do Curraghs and see the site of the old zoo at Groudle Glen,also hope to have a few days up in Scotland to catch up with some of the collections up there also hope to get up to Oban Sealife Centre while in Scotland as its place I`ve never got to despite the fact i used to spend alot of time in the area 15 years ago.
As for collections that are high on my list to visit next year are Belfast,Wingham,Thrigby Hall,Amazona and South Wildlife Park!
 
I continue to be amazed at how many zoological parks there are in a country as small as the United Kingdom.
 
Arizona Docent said:
I continue to be amazed at how many zoological parks there are in a country as small as the United Kingdom.
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We were too. In a 3 week visit from Australia we fitted in the usual family things [wedding etc] but also managed to visit 15 animal collections. And we barely scratched the surface!
 
I'm hoping to pay first visits to Woburn, Whipsnade, Colchester, Edinburgh, Noahs Ark, Manor House and Folly Farm in 2011. As well as returns to Port Lympne, Howletts, Bristol, National Marine aquarium, New Forest, Bristol, Cotswold and Birdland.
 
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