Norway - Part 10 - Kolmården (1 July)

Part 2 of Kolmården:

After the Savanna, the next area was the Öken (Desert), with Kulan (Turkmenian Kulan), Jak (yak) and Kamel (camel):

The highlight of this area was watching the camels eating a piece of bark:

Kulan

Camels

My bark! No my bark!

After the Öken we stopped at the Skogshund (Bush Dog) enclosure:

Bushdog

We stopped at the Varg (Wolves) enclosure to see the wolves being fed:

Wolves

After the wolves, we headed to Bamse word.  Bamse is a famous Swedish cartoon bear who eats Dunderhonung (Thunder-Honey) to become the most powerful bear in the world. Bamse world is the children's area of the park with rides and play areas:

Bamse's World

Skalmans Luftballonger (Skalman's Hot Air Balloon Ride)

The Bamse show

Signpost

Farmor (Grandma's) house

Shopping area

The Viktoria (Pirate shop ride) and GodisTåget (Lolly Train - Rollercoaster)

The text reads "Absolutely don't press this button" - So Tom pressed it - it made water squirt up from the play area

Dunderhonugsburkarna (Thunder Honey Pots - Teacup ride)

Behind Bamse's World was Kulmården (A play on words from Kolmården - Kul means fun):

Some of the animals

Kulmården

Farming sand

The other side

After Kulmården came the Aparium (Ape House).  On the first day the weather was so bad so the apes were all inside.  On the second day they were outside in the main enclosure.  Cam kept asking if we could go into the ape house to see the apes and we had to explain that this was the same group, they were just outside today:

Welcome to the Ape House

The first in the ape house was Gorillas:

Then came the Chimpanzees:

Baby is just hanging around

Feeding time - frozen peas

You've got something in your eye

Feeding time outside meant onions! Lots of onions

This chimp was rubbing its onion on the other chimp's butt and then laughing

The final exhibit were the gibbons:

The final section of the park was Marine World, with 2 rides, a seal show and a dolphin show:

Delphinexpressen (The dolphin express)

Sjörövarskeppet (Pirate Ship)

Säl (Seal) Show

Waving

We booked our tickets for the dolphin show at 2:00pm on the second day - it was pretty impressive:

Dolphins

I have a video of the whole show, but it was 2.7Gb, too big to fit on the blog.

That ended our time in Kolmården.  We had a good night's sleep and the next day we were due to head back to Malmö.