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By: Julz.......artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer October 25, 2017October 21, 2017

adventure, Animals, Photography, traveladventure, African Adventure, animals, Bali Safari & Marine Park, Our Bali Adventure, Photography, Safari Park, travel

Our Bali Adventure – Day 9

We slept in and had a long breakfast before check out and the quick drive to our next resort, approx 20 minutes; the Mara River Safari Lodge – OMG! What a treat, this Resort is next door to the Bali Safari & Marine Park and we had unlimited access! So close to the animals; white tigers, orangutan, Sumatran tiger and much more. The Marine Park is due to open 2018, but the rest was superb! We also saw Komodo dragons & piranhas, more birds, bearcats (Binturong) and Sumatran Elephants. Our room overlooked the Zebra and Rhino enclosure and carrots were left in a bowl for us to feed them, we could through food out from our balcony to get them closer. We even had this whole outside bathroom thing going with big windows and skylights.

We only had one day & night here, so we needed to make the most of it, the resort was outrageously expensive, even by Bali’s standards, but such an experience. We saw so many animals and so many up so close, it was humbling and thrilling. After tearing around the park for most of the day, we then headed for the pool, also overlooking the zebra paddock, and has a bar IN the pool!

sure there is glass, but look how close!

White Tiger

Binturong

Komodo Dragon

Baby Porcupine feeding

Monitor Lizard

Komodo Dragon

Sun Bear

Sumatran Tiger

Peacock

Hippo

Wilderbeasts

Antelope Fawn

Lion

Giraffe

Zebra

Rhino

Squirrel

Macaque Monkey

Toucan

Macaw

Orangutan

Pirahna

Leopard

African Hornbill

Snake

Binturong

Orangutan

White Tiger

We then did a night safari tour in a caged truck, not so good for photos (sorry about the poor quality), but WOW! We had two tigers eat food from the cage and on top of the truck, they had just got out of their pool and were dripping water all over us! We also got to feed elephants and zebra and bison.

Lioness by spotlight

Yep, that’s a lion

Zebra eating out of my hand

Stunned Rhino

Tiger on top of our truck

Another Tiger on top of our truck

Elephant taking a carrot from me

We then got to watch a fire dance show and have a BBQ buffet dinner, we then walked back to our hut, watching some of the animals at night, then fell asleep listening to the wonderful animals, we could even hear the lions and zebras, but mostly it was frogs and cicadas.