Franklin Drive-Thru Safari

On Labor Day we decided to explore the Franklin Drive-Thru Safari, which is about 40 minutes from our home. You pay a per person entrance fee and you can walk around and see lots of animals in pens, and also drive your car through the area where all sorts of animals are roaming free.

We opted to pay extra for a guided tour to take us around the drive through area. Totally worth it, since we could do more off-road exploring and we learned about the animals as we went along. Also, we would have missed our very favorite animal otherwise - a tiny, tiny newborn striped-tail lemur clinging to its mother's belly. You can't even imagine how adorable that little guy was.

We were riding in an open jeep, so we really got up close and personal with all the animals (a little too personal for my liking in the case of this guy, who left drool on my purse - ewwwww).

This picture should give you an idea of what it's like as you drive down the road.
You can buy a big bucket of feed for $5 and the animals know you've got the goods,
so they come right up to all the cars that come by.

Clearly I didn't listen to our tour guide as well as I should have because I can't remember if that animal is a buffalo or a bison, but he was big. Like, really big.

This fenced area houses bunches of goats and some baby animals (camels, for instance).

McKell was pretty fond of poking her finger into the side of this little snake she found.

We had a great time! We promise to take you if you want to come visit us. :)