This Bandung Zoo was originally known as a botanical garden. This park was inaugurated in 1923 to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, so named Jubilueumpark. The inscription of Jubiluempark built at the south corner of the triangle park. This inscription can still be seen in the back garden ornamental plant nurseries until the 1950's. Now that the inscription has disappeared somewhere.
The zoo was first known as derenten. The term is derived from Dutch, direntuin (zoo) is often pronounced by the Sundanese. Today, people know it as the Bandung Zoo.
When you get to the zoo, you will be greeted by a group of elephants and several species of birds. Then as you walk further, you will find a collection of various types of snakes. There was also an exotic apes are very attractive especially when they make noises like in the Tarzan movie.
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