If you are an animal lover – or are visiting Sydney with your young ones, the Taronga zoo in Sydney is one spot you won’t want to give a miss in your tour.

The zoo is an extensive affair – with the main zoo, the kiddies’ zoo, a playground and an animal farm to name but of a few of features here. The zoo also has a good stock of animals – including a number of lions somewhere in the zoo.

Taronga zoo also makes a great place to have a moment of quiet and peace on your Sydney tour, as it a considerable distance away from the huge crowds that make up Sydney, and that can feel a bit choking for people who want their peace.

It is not just the animals that you get to enjoy at the Taronga zoo in Sydney. As turns out, this zoo is the ideal place to visit if you are keen to have some post-card standard photos of you taken – with all the background features – including the Sydney harbor bridge, the Sydney house and the wider Sydney skyline that will prove to the folks back home that you were indeed in Sydney.

Getting to the Taronga zoo in Sydney should not be hard – and so wide is the choice of transport means to get you to Taronga zoo (and this includes water means) that you will find yourself spoilt for choice as to how you actually get here. You can, for instance, choose to get to the Taronga zoo by the cable car or by the bus. If you choose to get to the Taronga zoo by water, the simplest thing for you to do will be to catch a ferry at the Circular Quay, and in a short period of time, you will find yourself canoodling with the animals at the zoo. You cannot, however, walk into the zoo – that is – unless you are totally out of your mind.

One thing you will have to put up with on your visit to Taronga zoo is the kids’ screaming. A funny thing with kids is that they love to be taken to the animals alright (they will even beg to be taken to the zoo) but once there, they tend to get a little bit too scared of the creatures – hence the occasional screaming to be heard in various corners of zoo, ironically even in the corners where the relatively harmless animals are kept.

And in between your visit to the Taronga zoo in Sydney, it is hoped that you will find the opportunity to give a visit to one of the Zoo’s fine restaurants – and see what they have to offer in terms of both exotic and traditional cuisine. These cafes can also come in handy if the lunch hour happens to catch up with you while you are visiting the Taronga zoo, or if you are visiting with your young ones and they get hungry while here.

All in all, a tour to Sydney’s Taronga zoo is likely to be a memorable event.