Khao Kheow Zoo is about 40kms from Pattaya set on the mountains of Sri Racha, look like hills to me though until we started walking round, I went there first a good few years ago, I ridiculed the lazy Thais for driving round the Zoo as opposed to walking, yesterday I went again and now my legs ache,*edited by meThe place covers nearly 1,200 acres so it is pretty damn big, they also do a night safari and have over 8,000 animals.*
I suppose I should mention that after the first hour or so of walking around I went back and got the car, this was purely due to an injury to my big toe, wearing me normal flip flops I whacked my toe going up some steps to see the elephants, I didn't take much notice of it for the first 30 seconds, then my foot started slipping in the flip flop, yep my flip flop was full of blood, I sat on a rock as my life was draining away and sent my galfriend off to get some tissue, she came back with ice, tissues and a plaster, after about 5 minutes and the lose of a pint of blood everything seemed ok.
The zoo charges 100 baht for whites and blacks, 70baht for Thais and 50baht for your car, this isn't too bad actually as the place is probably bigger than a lot of the Thai National parks, plus it obviously has loads of animals to tease, although a few years ago they did charge the same price for whatever color you was and that was like 20baht per person, which is ridiculously cheap.
Down the road from here is the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo, now this place I might goto next week, if I remember correctly they charge 250baht if you have the wrong color skin, last time I went my galfriend pretended she was a taxi driver so she got commissions for all of us,(3 Farangs) so it worked out to 100baht for the whiteys and she and my son got in for free, we also done that at the monkey show in Pattaya, her, my son and her mum got in for free and she got 150baht commision on my 250baht entrance fee, makes for a cheap afternoons entertainment, plus you are getting one over on these robbing bstards
Read about friscofrankies visit to the Chiang Mai Zoo Here