Washington, Day 4. Still diffusing...

Today is our last touring day on this trip to Washington... we made it! Final decision for the day was to jump back on the Metro and make our way to the National Zoo!

Now, the nice thing about the National Zoo in Washington, is that it is a Smithsonian Institution, so of course that means they do not charge any entrance fee! Bonus!

This is a terrific Zoo, and has all the animals you probably want to see at a zoo... it is also built on a bit of a ravine, so you get your exercise walking around inside on the hills.

This Chetah looked a little cool first thing this morning, as it was only about 65 deg. F. here...

The Zoo is very well maintained, busy, and the animals are very well cared for, you can tell. The elephants above had a great enclosure to move around in.

There are lots of birds in the Zoo, including a bunch of Flamingos! They were a little jumpy though...

They have a couple Giant Pandas, and they were one of the hits of the Zoo... people were lined up to see them. Lots of students in the Zoo today on school year end trips.

They had quite a few gorillas here as well... they were very active.

A bit of a blur... but above is one of the Orang-utans.....

The sea lions were having a ball in the big tank...

I forget what type of bear this was...but it was very active today.

Lots of weird fish in the aquariums...

Lots of turtles...and great hot dogs!

OK, we did not pet the tarantella...

They had quite a few neat little monkeys.

They have these spoon billed rosettas in the wild down in Florida.

These guys were all lined up for dinner call.

What would a zoo be without the big cats...

Well, that wraps up 4 days of touring in the Washington area... we had a blast! It is sure an amazing City to tour around. There is lots to see, and you will never have enough time on your visit to see it all, so do not expect to. You have to pick and choose, and maybe catch more on a return visit... just don't wait 27 years like we did!

So now, we turn the rig north and head for home. We will take two days to make it back to Woodstock. We are about a 13 hour drive from there.

Till tomorrow...

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