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The multi national award-winning Australian Reptile Park enjoys the reputation of being The Zoo with Bite by offering unique exhibits, native and exotic animals and an animal experience you'll never forget. The zoo is situated less than one hour north of Sydney Harbour Bridge and south of Newcastle.
Discover loads of exciting daily interactive wildlife shows, including dingoes, wombat and Hugo a Galapagos tortoise. Hand-feed friendly red, gray and Kangaroo Island kangaroos as well as wallaroos, then have a digital photograph with cuddly koalas and large snugly pythons. See the only baby Tasmanian devils in NSW and learn about Project Ark - a national insurance breeding program to help save this iconic species from extinction. There's platypus, echidnas, yellow-foot rock wallabies, massive American alligators and reptiles, giant tarantula spiders and a tranquil bush walk with trickling streams, wildflowers and native bush birds. Learn about the Reptile Park life-saving role as the sole supplier of venom for the nations snake and funnel-web antivenom program. There's even a children's adventure playground and free barbecue facilities. Get right up close to a range of cute and curious reptiles with Roving Keepers on weekends and school holidays.
The award winning exhibits Lost World of Reptiles and Spider World add to the uniqueness of the Park. Reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie scene, Lost World of Reptiles takes visitors to ancient civilizations with amazingly cute, amazingly large, amazingly rare and amazingly deadly reptiles. Entertaining mad Egyptian mummies and a talking 5 metre-high statue of Sobek the Egyptian Crocodile God add a touch of mystique to the atmosphere.
Visitors will get caught in a web of intrigue in Spider World with giant tarantula spiders and scorpions. It's here at 10am every day that you'll experience the Australia's ONLY venom milking show with the deadly funnel-web spider. Interactive displays, monstrous spider replicas and a comical singing and rap-dancing funnel-web spider puppet will amuse the young and young at heart.
So why not indulge the whole family for the Best Funday Out at the Zoo with Bite!
Year Of The Frog - watch the park's website for planned events throughout the year on visit our website for details
2008 - Celebrating 60 Years - there'll be a party at the park throughout the July school holidays
NSW Tasmanian Devil Centre - with the largest population of devils on the mainland. Learn why this iconic species is on the brink of extinction and the role the Reptile Park is playing to assist with its survival.
Functions With Bite: Unforgettable 'Croctail' night functions, barbecue lunches, corporate Christmas parties and team building activities, Sex in the Zoo tour are available for group bookings. Or book our Roving Reptiles to visit your next function.
Open Time
Open Daily.
Public Holiday
Closed Christmas Day | |
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