Kuala Lumpur (KL) Bird Park is a must go place if you are looking for a green, natural environment whenever you are in Kuala Lumpur. It is also the world largest largest free-flight walk-in aviary where birds are let free in an aviary which closely resembles their natural habitat. The place itself is very close to to the National Mosque and Royal Malaysian Police Museum so you may consider those as well in your itinerary list. From the published information, KL Bird Park is housing more than 3,000 birds from more than 200 species in an enclosed aviary; which about 90% of them are local birds. While the rest 10% were imported from neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, China, and Australia.
Our family visited KL Bird Park during Chinese New Year (school) holiday but it was not that crowded (read some of our tips below for better planning). When we arrived around 11am, it took us around 15-mins to queue to get our tickets. The park itself is open daily from 9.00am to 5.30pm including Public Holidays and School Holidays. Although we are foreigners, but we can get the local entrance fee by showing our visa to show that we are resident in Malaysia. The fee is quite affordable if you can get local rate as shown in KL Bird Park website here. Ticket is free for children below 3 years old.
My impression? Lots of peafowl (peacock) as you scroll trough the park. Peafowls, ibis, monkeys, etc are freely roaming everywhere! They are freely walking around and many eagerly spread their feathers; to show-off maybe? Or an act of self-defense from visitors, perhaps? As we visited the park with two young children and baby, it took us around 2-hours, more or less, to finished our trip.
Below are some tips when you plan to visit KL Bird Park:
- If you worry about the queue, you can buy the ticket online at least 24-h before your visit. The redemption counter just next to the main counter.
- Try to come early in the morning as it can be hot during day time. Besides, rains in Malaysia “would normally” occur after around lunch time so it is good to come early.
- As I mentioned above, foreigners can get local rate if you are resident (i.e., working or studying here in Malaysia). But you need to show your passport and visa to the counter. For my family, I just show my passport and I showed them e-copy of passport/visa for my family using my phone.
- Lots of counter selling snacks so don’t worry if you get hungry.
- There are several machines selling fish food at 50 cents per pack – to feed fish in the pond – but most of them are not working properly. If your kids really love to feed the fish, I’d suggest buy the food from the snack counters. However, they will sell it double the price at RM1. Fair enough to safe the hassle, and the foods are packed inside Pokemon-look alike balls, so my kids took them as souvenirs!
- There are lots of monkeys in some places. So make sure you put your snacks/foods safely inside your bag or else they could try to snatch them. More tips: do not look them in the eyes or they might interested on you 🙂
- Lastly, you may need a mosquito repellant if you are worry about mosquitos. This is a tropical country anyway.
All in all, it was a good visit to entertain kids during school holiday while keep them learning about nature and birds. As an Asian myself, I don’t find the place too hot as there are shades in most of the places. The paths are baby-friendly, so don’t worry if you want to bring baby stroller with you. Just make sure someone can help open the door for you when you bring your baby gear as there are plenty door gates from one section to another. Baby Riri mostly sleep all the time so I guess she’s happy with the weather and surrounding environment. On aside note, I didn’t see any breastfeeding room within the premises, so I just simply breastfeed baby Riri on the secluded bench area in the park. Besides, we managed to visit the restroom but we could not find any tissue there so you may need to bring extra by yourself.
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