Celeste's Creations: Safari West

This weekend I went to visit my friend Andi in Rohnert Park, who invited me along with her family on an outing to Safari West (http://safariwest.com/). I have heard of the place before and always wanted to go as it's known as the the Sonoma's Serengeti. It definitely is an unique animal preserve, over 400 acres with over 500 animals. Unfortunately there was a big absence of my favorite African animal, NO elephants, as they said are too costly to keep, but over all there was a ton of unique animals to view.
You first start with a walking tour of the grounds where they have a huge aviary with all kinds of unique birds, then another enclosure with 4 cheetahs in with a couple HUGE tortoises, there is lemur island with beautiful black swans, porcupines and a couple of silly monkeys who entertained themselves.
Then you load up on an open jeep with an upper seating deck for up close and personal look at the animals. On the 2 hour ride you'll see a ton of different antelope, giraffes, white rhinos (who they think is pregnant), big horned cows, zebras, water buffalo, wildebeest, and more antelope with big antlers. And the end you feel as though you were on the Indiana Jones ride in Africa and got to see animals you would have never seen without an expensive plane ticket.
I highly recommend it for a great day trip out to the wine country and something different and educational. Below are some of the photos I took on our 3 hours tour of the perserve.

I did have to look up some of the animals on their species list, but I did get an A on the quizzes during the tour.

Lemur island