San Diego Zoo Tickets - Africa Rocks - Summer 2019
We visited the San Diego Zoo earlier this Summer during our trip to the West Coast. This is the same trip that we went to the Hotel Del Coronado and stayed near Sunset Cliffs along the coast. There were just four of us (Nat was tied up with some wedding-related commitments) and these were the four tickets that we bought. Filing these here under Zoo-related ephemera here on the blog. Africa Rocks opened in 2017 and is/was the largest San Diego Zoo construction project ever. From San Diego Union-Tribune back a few years : ...the San Diego Zoo — fresh off celebrating its first 100 years — steps into the future with the opening of Africa Rocks, its biggest construction project ever. The 8-acre, $68 million undertaking relies on the newest thinking about zoos, which find themselves in an ongoing debate about the treatment of animals in captivity and are designing exhibits that are more naturalistic, more focused on conservation than entertain...