Safari park Beekse Bergen In this park you'll find all kind of animals from the continent of Afrika, Azie, Australia and Europe. This is the biggest wildlife park of the Benelux. You'll find 150 different kind of animal species (mammals or birds). Explore this park in different manners; there are safaritours on foot, by car, by coach or by boat. It is a great way to see all the animals in there own environment. Fabulous day out with the kids or alone!

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Well......every monday after Easter lots of the people enjoy a day off from their work.......and what do they do on that day............I think 90% of them is visiting the Ikea. This year it was pretty cold and snow was expected but I decided to visit the " Beekse Bergen" anyway. In the morning the skies were blue, a little sunshine and yes.....it was cold. But a nice warm winterjacket will held us warm.

The first thing you walk in to after arrival is the place where the monkey's hang out. My little girls already speak a few words, she also know the word " Aap"  (= Dutch for monkey), so the first thing she does after seeing the monkeys is screaming very enthousiastic " Aap.....Aap.....AAAAP.............Aaap" . So in just a very short time everyone in the area knew what she just has seen.......monkeys!! But she was having the time of her life.

After the monkeys we visit the area where the elephants are held, the only elephant she's has seen untill this moment was an elephant in a storybook.........these animals here are just a little bit bigger..........that's also what she thought I guess after seeing the suprised look in her eyes :D

We also visited the lions, the were just being fed........my little angel calls the lions " GRRRRR". I thought she would be impressed by them, but not at all......

After visiting lots of other animals it was time for our lunch and at the end of the lunch she was so tired she couldn't keep her eyes open and felt asleep. So thats her way of telling me that is was time to go.......which was a good deciscion because when walking back to our car it started snowing, just as the people from the weatherchannels predicted.

So instead of stranding in one of the many trafficjams in front of Ikea stores on a Dutch highway we had a lot of fun with some (wild) animals.

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A nice Safaripark wich you can explore in different ways: by boat, bus, foot or car (everything is included in one ticket). The park has a lot of different animals from the African continent. When you take the bus or boat there is a guide that tells stories about the animals. I'm not sure if they do it in english too, it was in dutch when i was there. In the summerseason there is a very nice birdshow and you can watch some of the animals being fed. Besides the animals there are a lot of playgrounds for the children.

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In Hilvarenbeek near Tilburg you'll find Safaripark De Beekse Bergen. In this park you'll find all kinds of animals from the continent of Africa. You can see those animals by making a safaritrip. You can choose to do a safari on foot, by boat, by bus and by car. You can see how the animals are being fed and you can go and watch a demonstration with birds. There is also a playpark for children wich is called Kilimanjaro. For the really small children there is the MiniManjaro :) (hihi I think that sounds sooo cute) TIP: be sure to go on a day when it doesn't rain. My boss and his wife and children went one day when it was raining and the children were like "mummy mummy we cant see any animals!" and there was one big roof in the whole animal - area and after they drove around for an hour or something they reached the area with the roof and all the animals were standig together under the roof haha. It was very funny but not so funny for the children! :) The entrance fee varies from season to season but it's not that high, somewhere around 15/16 euro's.

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