The African savannah in…….. Brittany?

We are having a sneaky five day holiday… no school on Wednesdays, Thursday was a bank holiday and all the schools are shut today,,, why go to school for just a Friday!!.
Yippee, so today we went to Branféré Parc. What a fantastic place. Branféré Parc is involved in the preservation of 24 protected species. Absolutely no cages here, the 1,000 species are kept in relative freedom within the 40 hectares of watering places linked together by cascades, wide meadows, islands and undergrowth.

The African plaine

Suddenly we came upon, The plain of Africa. It looked exactly like the African savannah and as we looked we saw giraffes, ostriches, zebras, kudus, pygmy hippopotamuses and wildebeasts all grazing together in total harmony. Amazing.
We turned a corner, and in front of us were nets, huge nets in the trees…an aerial trail in the trees is made of 1700 square metres of acrobatic nets. Wow, what an adventure !! We climbed onto the nets, no harnesses required, and from high up in the trees we could see over the African Plain….

A treetop adventure !!

To finish our visit we watched a remarkable high flying show where a collection of 120 birds (storks, pelicans, flamingo, eagles, vultures, kites, hawks and multicoloured parrots) fly literally just a few inches above your head.

Birds, birds everywhere !!!

We had a fantastic day… and if you do come to Brittany this summer it is well worth a visit !!