I counted it myself, the two most visited municipal parks last year, that is, the zoo and the Summer Palace, respectively, 16 times and 19 times, last year's zoo visits, more than 13 times in 2007, forming two peak years, other years of large areas of blank, remember after the spring of 1994, a gap of thirteen years, during which not once came, and then the peak of visits in 2007, caught up with the end of the renovation of the old building of the Beijing Zoo. Coincidentally, the 13 times in that year corresponded to the gap of the previous thirteen years.
After 2007, there were only sporadic records, twice in 2008, once in 2009, once in 2013, once in 2016 in the rainstorm, and only 5 times in these 12 years. Until last year, after buying a new annual pass for the park, I seized the opportunity to turn all the places around, even the corners and corners.
This time, instead of entering the north gate from the north third ring road, the blue sky and white clouds looked very good along the second ring road, entering from the main entrance, passing the Soviet exhibition hall. If only one day we could see the re-hanging of the coats of arms of the 15 republics.
This time, the old main gate has been closed, opened the new gate next to it, the old gate I caught up with the final end, in the first half of the year from this door several times, there is no opportunity to experience the door that Master Hou Baolin once mixed in.
At that time, it was the season from summer to autumn, the grass and trees were still green, and the green bloom formed in the summer did not fade, and it still looked green.
But at that time the autumn scene has begun to appear, saw the autumn insects, the ground jumped a melon flat child, did not catch, it jumped on the bush, it can not be found, as if disappeared out of thin air, this is the second time to encounter the melon of the flat child jumped the phenomenon, I do not know whether I was blind or it jumped elsewhere, but I searched the bush carefully, even the shadow did not find.
Still coming to the amphibious reptile that I like to visit the most, this golden python skin has become dull, not moving, and the eyes are white, which is to be molted.
Zoo star Aldabra tortoises are still bathing in the lights, and the big one, which seems to have never left the lights since the amphibious reptile opened.
The iguanas were also basking in the sun, and last time there was a big python in this window, and I was worried that the iguanas would be eaten by the pythons, but this time I came to see that they were still there, and the pythons were gone.
There were a variety of different tortoises and half-aquatic turtles in this large window, and I visually saw Burmese, Yellow-fronted, Amber, Black Boots, Red Legs, and possibly Montenegro and Sub-Giant. This place should be well arranged to make a window in the tropical rainforest.
The water turtle area, this one is called Marta, like dead leaves, it can grow to giants.
The backstab of the large alligator turtle, or how to call it a thorny crocodile turtle in Guangdong, its real scientific name is the real crocodile turtle.
A kind of frog, the ass is arched up, the waist is pressed down, and the usual frog body shape is not the same, which reminds me of a frog in the 60s domestic black and white cartoon, it is this shape, the frog bites the wooden stick and is brought to the sky by two birds, the frog fell down as soon as he opened his mouth happily, it seems that there is really this shape, and the animators in our country observed it carefully.
When I arrived at the penguin house, I learned in the past ten years that penguins were so small, they walked slowly on the ground, and when they entered the water, they flew like arrows, and they could jump from this side to that end in less than a second.
Coming to the area of antelope, wild horses, and deer park, the first time last year began here, and the last time I came here also ended here. The white horns immediately hit the roof, and every time they looked, they seemed to be standing on a high place.
Now the cage and the animal are separated, I remember a few years ago it was not separated, once in 2007 here, the deer as soon as they saw someone coming, they came over, easy to touch, if not given them food, they will still be angry, with the horns to the top.
This area is generally not popular with tourists, but the trees planted here are special varieties, which are not available in other parts of Beijing, and I don't know what they are called, and they are very similar to African trees.
Giraffe House, I've never been in, not in time for it to open. This building is an old building from the Red Era.
Last year's 16 trips to the zoo ended at the old back door of the zoo, before there were zebras and ostriches nearby, now the ostriches don't know where to put it, 12 years ago I still use the camera to take pictures, once with a telephoto to see the animals, the eyes are all focused on the viewfinder, and so on, put the camera down, startle me, an ostrich is staring at me at close range, coldly look up to see a dinosaur-like ostrich head so close in front of me, really frightened, fortunately it did not scratch people, just waiting for people to eat, It seems that ostriches are still gentle animals.
After this time, last year's trip to the zoo was over, recording the scenery from spring to summer to autumn in a year, taking countless photos, discovering many scenery that had not been paid much attention to before, gaining a lot of beautiful pictures and knowledge, and more or less of a visit to the garden that can relieve people's pressure.
Every time I came, I fantasized that it could expand the boundary again, and the area became larger, but this fantasy was unrealistic, many territories were lost in history, and there was an elevated road passing through the east, resulting in the cutting of Monkey Mountain, the shrinking of Bear Mountain, the demolition of the medium-sized beast museum, a wasteland behind the Zhongyuan Hotel, not only did not come in, but also built a higher fence, and in the place of the park, there were also cages that had been fenced for almost a year, such as camels and wild donkeys behind Eagle Mountain, which did not move all year round.
After two near-plots by developers to relocate, it is also fortunate to be able to keep the royal garden of Beijing Zoo. Many people, no matter how old they are, can recall the memories brought by their elders when they were young, and it is a place where people have been thinking about it for several lifetimes. In short, hopefully it's getting better and better, and it's going on here forever.