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Slow down, embrace your senses and re-connect with nature this Spring at Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park. With events for all ages and abilities, you are invited to soak up our sites before they open, take a guided walk on Ngarrindjeri Country, or take a leisurely e-cycle at sunrise.

Delivered in partnership with Nature Festival of SAWellFest Adelaide, and Bike About.

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Adelaide Zoo Wellness Events

Saturday 8 October & Saturday 22 October 2022

Slow down, embrace your senses and re-connect with nature during a guided forest bathing experience. We have combined the traditional elements of Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) with the opportunity to stop, observe and connect with the inquisitive and calming nature of our animals.

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Saturday 15 October 2022

We are opening our gates early to ensure a quieter and calmer environment for people who benefit from this, including reduced human noises on site. Explore the space at your own pace before we open to the general public.

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Monarto Safari Park Wellness Events

Saturday 15 October 2022

Slow down, embrace your senses and re-connect with nature during a guided forest bathing experience. We have combined the traditional elements of Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing) with the opportunity to stop, observe and connect with the inquisitive and calming nature of our animals.

Learn more and book

Walk on country sold out

Sunday 9 October 2022

Situated on the land of the Ngarrindjeri people, this experience is an exclusive opportunity to meet with one of Monarto Safari Park’s Ngarrindjeri team members and take a relaxed walk across Country, before enjoying a morning tea made from bush garden ingredients.

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Bird watching sold out

Tuesday 11 October 2022

Lead by one of Monarto Safari Park’s bird experts, this guided 3-4 hour twitching experience is your opportunity to see some of the over 100 species of wild birds across the natural mallee woodland landscape of the park.

The tour will bring you to some of the park’s hidden bushland gems and areas only accessible on private tours.

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Every Thursday

Immerse yourself in nature as you cycle Monarto Safari Park before the gates open to the public. Throughout the morning, it will just be you, nature, and the animals as they wake for the day.

See the sun rise over the expansive plains of the park as you enjoy a leisurely ride on an electric bike ride past incredible animals including rhinos, Chimpanzees and zebras.

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About Zoos SA

Zoos SA is a not-for-profit conservation charity that exists to connect people with nature and save species from extinction. Zoos SA acknowledges the Country on which we stand always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land and we pay our deepest respect and gratitude to Kaurna (Adelaide Zoo) and Ngarrindjeri (Monarto Safari Park) Elders, past, present and emerging. We undertake critical conservation work throughout Australia and acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands.

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