Get ready for Zoo-lovers day

WHATEVER ELSE THE day holds for you on Monday, find a moment to celebrate Zoo-lovers day.

We don’t do that well for zoos in East London, but – if the rain holds off – it might be a good day to splash the cash and spend the first day of the Easter school holidays at the world-famous London Zoo. It opened an impressive 191 years ago (though members of the public were not allowed in for the first 19 years). Covering a generous 36 acres of Regent’s Park, the world’s oldest scientific zoo is home to thousands of animals from home and overseas. It’s pricey, though – with adult tickets just under £30 for adults (just under £20 for children over three years old). Book online over 48 hours before your visit and you’ll save 10%.

If you want to see animals closer to home, there are two city farms in Tower Hamlets to try.

The humans are coming! Quick – make a run for it!

•Mudchute Farm on the Isle of Dogs is open daily, 9am-5pm. There’s over 100 farm animals to see: you can get watch the large animals in their fields and then get closer to the small ones in pets’ corner. There’s also a range of activities throughout the Easter Holidays.

No one can doubt that this Farm is in the heart of the city.

•Spitalfields City Farm in Buxton Street, E1 is open daily (except Mondays), 10am-4pm, and visitors are welcome to view the farm and its animal residents, as well as the plant-growing areas of the farm.

•For more information, go to:
London Zoo
Mudchute Farm
Spitalfields City Farm

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