KL Bird Park

Early on Tuesday morning Dan and I set out for KL's bird park- the world's largest walk-in free-flight aviary. For the first few hours, hardly anyone else was there and it felt like we had the whole park to ourselves. We saw hundreds of different kinds of birds, and many of them were free-ranging. We could walk right up to egrets, pelicans, western crowned pigeons, and even peacocks. Other birds were in cages or pens for their (or our!) safety (like the owls, which might snack on some of the smaller free-ranging birds, or the ostriches and emus, which might not respond very nicely to people walking right up to them). For lunch we enjoyed some fine Malaysian food (such as chicken satay and tropical fruit juice) at the park's "Hornbill Restaurant", where you can dine above the hornbills on a wooden balcony inside their large netted living area.