The Eastern Discovery Tour
Day 3

Beijing Zoo is one of the most beautifully landscaped zoos I've been to, and includes a number of large and impressive statues around it. I would have preferred it though if they'd used the space and money for additional space for the big cats themselves though.

The Beijing Aquarium is located in the zoo, but it's a separate attraction from the Zoo which you have to pay a separate entry charge for. It's well worth it though, as it's an amazing attraction, in a different league to any aquarium I've done in the UK.

The first part of the Zoo is the Rainforest Zone. As you've probably guessed it's themed as a rainforest, and features a large number of tanks with different types of fish in them.

After the Rainforest one you get to this large central area, featuring a large number of shops and amusements. From here you can access every other zone in the aquarium.

The central zone also contains a rock pool area. The hi-light of which is this pool with a collection of sea turtles swimming inside it.

Two of the zones are dedicated to two large tanks. One contained some large sturgeon fish, this one contained a collection of sharks and rays.
You might also notice the Chinglish sign at the top here. Don't what into the concave mirror?

The most impressive section was the Coral Reef zone. This is a huge collection of tropical fish, including this huge tanks that goes over two floors. There's even a tunnel through the tank you ride an escalator in to get up to the next floor.

The most impressive tanks most impressive resident.

The only slight criticism I have of the Coral Reef section is that due to the large size of it, it gets a little repetitive, seeing so many similar types of fish in similar habitats. It would help to have an area with perhaps a ray pool, or dedicated to some other types of fish. When though the only criticism I have is there's too much of something  though you know it's doing something right.

The only real disappointment I had of the aquarium was the dolphin zone. I never saw the show, and the rest of the time they were kept here, where it was to murky to see them up close, and you didn't get a great view from up on the viewing platform.