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Chester Zoo
Chester,
Upton by Chester,
Cheshire,
CH2 1LH

Voted Large Visitor Attraction of the Year Winner 2007 at the Visit Chester & Cheshire Awards. The UK’s number one charity zoo, with over 7000 animals and 500 different species, including some of the most endangered species on the planet. An all-year round favourite attraction for people of all ages! Visit Realm of the Red Ape enclosure – a new home for the Zoo’s critically endangered Sumatran and Bornean orang-utans. See them in their new tropical environment, along with 4 noisy gibbons, birds, insects and reptiles, and one of the longest Reticulated Pythons in the world. Experience Assam, with the herd of Asian Elephants, Hornbills, Tree Shrews and rare fish inside Elephants of the Asian Forest. The Twilight Zone which is the largest free-flight bat zone in Europe, and is now also home to the Livingstone’s Fruit Bat - one of the world’s largest bats. Fun Ark is a big hit with children of all ages and the award-winning gardens are justly famous, with formal bedding throughout spring and summer.