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The Zoological park and Botanical garden located at Sanford, Florida is a great place to be especially during childrens holidays. As you reach the Zoological Park you are immediately greeted by the lush green lawns with some good tropical shrubs and trees. Sanford can be reached by air as there is an airport here and there are several flights to Sanford from many parts of the country. The scenic park has a very educational, relaxing and entertaining atmosphere all around and a family with children can have a truly wonderful time exploring various animal species.

The Zoo was opened in 1923 when they had only handful of animals given in their custody by the fire department. Today the Zoo can accommodate at least 500 to 600 animals. Today the number has reached to 400 exciting variety of animals that children and adults both can interact with easily and freely.

Apart from these animals there are some other ways of having fun in the park and one of them is their aerial adventure course called ZOOm Air Adventure Park. You can also get your swimsuits along to take a dip in the water of their Splash ground. It has frogs, raining trees, bucket dump, alligators, hippopotamus and a water tunnel. You can spend close to 3 hours at the splash especially during summers.

The Zoological Park also contains Animal Adventure Childrens Zoo and the Herpertarium. These two you simply cannot afford to miss. These two sections are the most exciting of all. The Animal Adventure Childrens Zoo houses several species of animals. It contains animals such as the Barbados Sheep, domestic turkey, Llama, Zebu, Asian elephants, kangaroos, leopards and Boer goats.

The Herpertarium contains a huge number of poisonous snakes and non poisonous reptiles such alligators and crocodiles. Reptiles that are kept here have thick skin. Children will be quite fascinated to see the reptiles up close. Educational trips have staff from the Zoo that explains why these reptiles need to maintain a balance between sun and shade. They will tell you that this is necessary for the reptiles to maintain their body temperature.

You will also come across amphibians and the Zoo accommodates 6000 such species of amphibians. There are other activities organized for children during the weekends such as the Elephant Demonstration at 11 a.m., The Bird Show at 11.30 a.m., and The Bug Encounter at 1 p.m.