Safari Park is located in the resort town of Gelendzhik. The territory of the park amazes with its diversity, there is a mixed forest and a lot of bushes, and the abundance of flowers admires even the most demanding taste. On the territory of the park, the animals are kept in spacious cells, the living conditions are close to natural.

Safari Park is the first rehabilitation center on the Black Sea coast for animals. Animals are not bought. All of them are delivered to the park or from circuses (when the animal refuses to work with the trainer), or the animal is brought as "waste material" by photographers, or the hunters bring the animals (for example, when the baby is left without a mother).

In the Safari park animals , of course, the main, but still it's not a zoo. It is a center of leisure and recreation for residents and guests of the resort. On the territory of the park there is a cable car leading to the top of the Markotkh ridge and the exhibition complex "From the depth of centuries and waters" and the first artificial cave in Russia.

photography enthusiasts should visit the "Maritime Museum", the exhibition which collected more than 2,000 exhibits from the seabed. The basis of the only exhibition in Russia, "About the sea tell the coins" are six hundred unique coins from a hundred countries of the world with marine themes. The oldest of them, in the form of a small dolphin, was released 2500 years ago in Ancient Greece, and the biggest weight of one kilogram of silver of 925 samples with the image of the sailing ship "Mir" was minted nowadays at the St. Petersburg Mint. Petrified bones of whales and teeth giant sharks that floated in these places a hundred million years ago-only part of the museum's exposition.

In addition, the park should be visited by the "Bear Cave" From the first meters from the entrance a completely different world opens . Muted lighting opens gaze gigantically stalagnata that are like a connecting link between the floor and the ceiling . In nature such "statues" grow for hundreds of thousands of years . To the right and left from the ceiling hang stalactites . Their form they resemble an icicle hanging from the roof in a warm spring day . Stalactites can often be observed under stalactites . These streams grow from floor to ceiling - towards the stalactite . The color of the flows varies from white to the most diverse and depends on the impurities of the salts contained in the solution .

Contacts

Location address:

• Gelendzhik, federal highway "Don" 1511 km (+750 m)

Phone:

• +7 (86141) 206-30

Working hours:

• in summer: 9-22 hours
• in winter: 9-19 hours
• without weekend

Prices and discounts vary depending from the season.

• Safari Park - 250 RUB - Animal Park, Bear Cave, Maritime Museum.
• Safari Park with a cable car - 500 RUB - arches of animals, Bear cave, Maritime Museum, cable car, aviaries under the cable car, Jurassic Park, dolmen, terrarium.
• Children under 5 years free of charge (pass through the turnstile at the hands of parents);
• Veterans of the Second World War free.

Website:

• www.safari-park.ru