Xixiakou Shendiao Mountain Wildlife Park Nanny-style Guide

Before going, I read a lot of travel guides, and after visiting myself, I added some missing information and tips that are more suitable for my own family. There were two adults, one middle-aged person over 50, and a four-and-a-half-year-old child in our group, staying at the Xianghai. At 10:20, there was already a traffic jam at the entrance, and the first parking lot was full. The security guards were stopping cars from entering, so we got out of the car. Note that if you are stuck in traffic at this time and the entrance direction is no longer allowing entry, decisively get out and cross the road into the scenic area. We tried to get into the parking lot by having the driver move forward and turn back, which not only added over a kilometer to our journey but was also very congested, and in the end, we still couldn't get in and had to get out of the car on the roadside. So even before reaching the zoo entrance, we had to climb a long slope. At the entrance, there was a long queue for ticket checking, and it felt like it would take twenty minutes just to get in. By the time we strolled to the restaurant, it would probably be almost two in the afternoon, and the child being young would definitely get cranky and hungry by that time. Moreover, the roads inside were very narrow, only wide enough for three people to walk side by side. With so many people queuing up to check tickets and entering, it would definitely be shoulder to shoulder, and there would be no point in seeing any animals. So we decisively gave up and took a taxi back to the hotel. We set off this morning at just after 7 o'clock, and finally arrived at the zoo at around 8:10. There were few people and the car could still enter. The driver dropped us off at the zoo entrance, saving us from climbing a slope and time. We left the zoo at around 12:30, spending a total of four hours, and we even rested for more than half an hour at the giraffe restaurant. We fed almost all the animals we could, didn't play with the old amusement facilities, were delayed a little while riding horses, didn't pay much attention to some of the common animals we see, and took the second magic carpet and rainbow slide as well as the third magic carpet and slide. The whole process was not crowded, feeding without queuing, only the last slide had a few minutes wait. I guess the reason for fewer people in the latter half is that the main group had come up, and they were stuck in the first half of the journey, which slowed down the progress. So in conclusion, it's still best to go early, and the weather was still cool. Today we felt the temperature was particularly suitable, there was wind on the mountain, and it was not hot or humid, which was very nice. Regarding feeding, the first animal we fed was the tiger, at around 8 in the morning. They were so hot they didn't want to move, lazily lying there, and wouldn't walk an extra few steps even if the chicken necks were thrown far. As for the wolves, don't even mention it, they were all lying down in the distant shade. Later, we reached the monkey area, I forgot what the zookeeper was selling, but the monkeys weren't very interested. Instead, they were fascinated by the bread in the hands of the tourists. There were staff members next to us constantly reminding us not to feed them privately, so no one dared to feed them secretly. The feeding interaction experience in this part was not very good, and it was different from the guides I had seen before. But starting with the capybaras, it was different.