Manulas in the Gobi exhibit tend to save energy during hot summer days and activate only in the later hours. Pictured is a male Spay. Photo by Petr Hamerník, Prague Zoo
Starting 1st July, an early evening walk to the Prague Zoo will cost just one hundred crowns. During the summer holidays, all visitors pay CZK 100 for entry to the Prague Zoo after 5 p.m. The discount is valid from 1 July to 31 August and applies to physical tickets purchased at any box office between 5 pm and 7 pm. The gates to the zoo, indoor pavilions, and restaurants close at 7 p.m., but the grounds are open until 9 p.m.
“Last year, the summer early-evening discount on the entrance fee proved effective, because it motivated the people of Prague in particular to visit the zoo on weekdays after work and thus take advantage of the long summer evenings,” says director of Prague Zoo Lenka Poliaková. “According to our experience, people also avoided hot days in this way or went to specifically observe animals that become more active at sunset, such as Tasmanian devils, small and large felines, or wolves,” he adds.
Other animals active in the early evening include wombats, fossas, tayres, nosedives, red pandas, and various birds.
In addition to owls, they are species used to fly over to roost. It is very lively under the cable car in the walk-through aviary of the African Rock, further on in the Bird Wetlands exhibition complex, where you can observe cranes and various waders in the late hours, or in Darwin’s Crater, where cockatoos and rusty quacks will catch your eye.
The walk-through aviary of African Rock in the lower part of the zoo is lively in the evening. Pictured is the flagship species of this exhibit, the endangered rock ibis. Photo by Tereza Mrhálková, Prague Zoo
The holiday discount on the entrance fee is valid after 5 p.m. for adults, students, children, pensioners, and visitors with dogs. The exception is pensioners over the age of 70, who are of course still allowed to enter the Prague Zoo for a symbolic 1 CZK.
Prague Zoo is open every day from 9 a.m. in the summer. During hot days, visitors and animals are cooled by a total of 28 bivalves, which freshen the air across the zoo grounds.