The Oldest Dusit Zoo in Bangkok

The Dusit Zoo in downtown Bangkok is regarded as the largest and finest zoo in Southeast Asia. It has been open since 1938. Its area of 18 hectares in addition to the cages and aviaries with animals placed beautiful pond teeming with underwater fauna, where you can for a fee to swim in water transport (boats and catamarans). You will be surrounded by fish and turtles that you can feed.

The Dusit Zoo in Bangkok has more than 1,500 animals and birds. Some of the animals can be admired and even touched in close proximity, but most are kept in cages. Watching the life of animals through the bars of cramped cages is more like empathizing. Some of them, because of the nature of the shelters, are hard to see at all.

Within the Dusit Zoo, there is an interesting wooden walkway about 10 meters high that allows you to observe the lives of monkeys, giraffes, and other animals. In general, walking in the park causes only positive emotions. After the stone jungle of Bangkok and the hustle and bustle of everyday life, this is the perfect place to relax and unwind amidst the lush greenery and pleasant birdsong.

Pros and Cons of Dusit Zoo in Bangkok

Dusit Zoo has quite a few pros and cons that outweigh each other at times. Read each of the points carefully and conclude for yourself – is it even worth a visit?”

Pros

The giraffes’ close proximity to people allows them to touch and feed them from their hands.
The zoo has an inexpensive cafe that serves delicious Thai food for just 50-80 baht. There’s also a convenience store called 7-Eleven.
There’s also something like a pet corner where you can freely interact with pets: cows, goats, horses.
Symbolic cost of the ticket to enter the zoo.
Low concentration of visitors, thanks to which you can admire the animals and take pictures against their background almost without obstacles.

Minuses

Most of the living creatures in the zoo are kept in conventional cages, so watching them is somewhat inconvenient. Modern zoos try to keep animals in spacious aviaries, but Dusit is still very conservative.
Despite its 18 hectares, the zoo looks very small, uncomfortable and poorly equipped. The lack of funding affects this.
Most of the animals are not very active during the day, probably because of the stifling sun or lack of care.

If you’re planning a vacation that’s going to be intense and entertaining, we wouldn’t recommend visiting this zoo, but rather going to Safari World.

How to get to the zoo in Bangkok?

There are a number of ways to get to Dusit Zoo in Bangkok:

Walk by bag from the same monument towards the zoo, travel time is about 20 minutes.
From the Russian embassy you can take the 16 bus in 25 minutes.