Pictures of Lok Kawi Wildlife Park / Zoo, Sabah
June 26th, 2007I visited the Lok Kawi Zoo on Saturday 16th June. Actually the signboard says “Lok Kawi Wildlife Park”, so this could be a source of confusion, as people might be looking high and low for the word “zoo”.
The entrance is nicely designed and looks very inviting:
Entry charge is quite steep. The rate shown below is for Malaysians. Non-Malaysians get charged double. I think those below 6 years of age get free admission.
In the children’s section, there was a fresco which caught my eye: nice touch 
Elephant ride is only for those below 12. So adults will be disappointed. I think they could’ve used a bigger elephant and let the whole family go on it, like they do in A’Famosa Melaka.
The aviary is a very authentic jungle setting. When I first entered it, I thought it’s going to be a long walk, while in actual fact, it’s only about 150m. Right in the middle, looking up, you’ll be able to see this. Looks like a giant spider web - to prevent all the birds from escaping.
Visiting all places except the reptile and botanical gardens at a leisurely pace took us about 2 hours.
I’ve been to the Taiping and Melaka zoos and my impressions are:
- not very many animals yet. Zoo standards like zebras, camels, giraffes and lions are all missing.
- very well designed - wide avenues and places to sit and observe the animals.
- apart from visitor’s book, they also have a suggestions book which was surprisingly well populated, with very honest and constuctive comments inside. Most of the points here I also jotted down in their book.
- display of medicinal plants. complete with description, what they’re supposed to heal and which part of the plants to use is a nice touch.
- in future, they could add transportation services, an electric car perhaps, for the disabled/elderly.
- also in future, they could add other animal rides like camel rides and pony rides.
- also in future, they could add animal shows like bird shows and multi-animal shows (monkeys, buffaloes, bears etc)
Yes, we’re definitely coming back!
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Sabah owned Zoo?? First time I heard that. Probably I didnt go back often until a lot of things also not aware of.
Anyway … good to know more about my home land from you guys blog.
Thanks
It officially started operations quite recently, even most locals haven’t visited it yet.
You are right dude… there were lots of confusion regarding the name… most people refer it as ZOO… and people will ask ‘where the heck is the zoo?’ and people will answer ‘PAPAR’… and they will search the ‘ZOO in PAPAR!’… LOL… Wildlife Park is more appropriate… and just tell ‘Wildlife Park in Lok Kawi’
yup, you’re right BUT if you really ponder… i think we should give tumb ups for Sabah Wildlife Department and Lok Kawi Wildlife Park for their mission to conserved the wildlifes… Maybe i can give some explainations regarding to somes issues..
1) They prefered to call it a PARK instead off ZOO b-coz the terms of ZOO is actually something like a small cage, where animals have no space to lingers around, so they decided to call it a PARK to give the impression of OPEN CAGE CONSEPT..
2) The PRICE = well if you go to S’pore ZOOLOGICAL PARK, the fee is about SD 30.00 equivalence to RM90-RM100. Where can you find a place where you can see almost 80% of it is an exotic animals and some of it might become history. They have to spend RM130K monthly just for the sack to feed (food,suppliment,vitamins,milk…) the wildlife..Ya, gov will sponsored but not that much, they have to depends on the visitor’s fee..
3) Other ANIMALS= Actually the park had ordered quite numbers of animals from other zoo in malaysia, but lately it is not really safe to bring the animals here b-coz of diseased such as KUKU & KAKI, BIRDs FLU ect… they have to wait untill it’s really safe to transfered the animals coz if they bring it without looking for the possibilities, we might lost all the Wildlife in Sabah especially the exotic and endangered species if the diseased spread…
Thanksssssssssss……
Ben, I borrow your pictures for my post on the zoo but I linked them back to you, hope you don’t mind. Thanks
No problems: all my pictures are royalty-free, that’s why I didnt bother to watermark (or whatever the term is) any of them.
ive been there.very interesting place but not very have well facilities.No caution signboard and detail of the animals.