I bought tickets for us to go do an after hours tour of the Honolulu Zoo, but turns out Brian wouldn’t be home, so I brought a friend instead. This tour books out a few months in advance, and it lives up to the hype! It was super cheap, I think $10 for each of us as members. Our tour guide was great, she was very knowledgable and told great stories about the animals. We saw almost every animal that we stopped at, and a couple that she claims “are NEVER out” (I believe she was authentic about it, but it was funny that it happened to a couple.) One was the lizards and the other was the Aardvark.
A couple story highlights; the zebra and the giraffe are BFFs, the Rhinos were matched in hopes of mating but she didn’t think he was man enough, the male lion died of COVID, so the female now does the territorial scouting.
Loved this guy and it’s shame he doesn’t keep his window clean.
This guy was mesmerizing swinging around… apparently doing a territorial dance because there was a large man in our group.
We had a really great time doing this and I can see why it sells out! 10/10 would recommend this behind the scenes tour. There was only 15 of us, including three kids, so it was really easy to take pictures and never felt crowded.
