JAKARTA - Thousands of people are trying out night tours at Ragunan Wildlife Park (TMR). The manager noted that the inaugural opening of Night at The Ragunan Zoo on Saturday, October 11 was visited by 3,713 visitors.
Head of Public Relations of Ragunan Wildlife Park, Wahyudi Bambang, revealed that the majority of visitors came to the zoo in southern Jakarta at night to have a picnic together.
"Visitors are very enthusiastic. If a percentage is made, a 60 percent picnic, a 25 percent exercise, and a 15 percent animal nocturnal," Wahyudi told reporters, Monday, October 12.
Wahyudi admitted that there was one thing that visitors complained about, namely the minimal lighting in the Ragunan area. However, Wahyudi admitted, the manager deliberately did not add excessive lighting points in the animal cage area.
"Some of the students who were there were disturbed by the excessive intensity of light. Because the animals are dinal or active during the day. If you want to add them, you'll just have a picnic," explained Wahyudi.
In addition, Ragunan management will also increase the number of operational vehicles in the form of electric cars. This vehicle is used by visitors to see nocturnal animals with a rental rate of IDR 250,000 per hour with a capacity of 5 people.
"We will evaluate this. Bugy cars need to be added, because there are a lot of enthusiasts. Currently there are 6 units operating," he said.
For now, Ragunan is open only on Saturdays every week from 18.00 to 22.00 WIB. Visitors can only enter through the North Gate, because the West Gate is not open for night visits. All vehicles are required to park outside the area, and visitors must have a JakCard Card. If you don't have it, visitors can buy at the counter available at the North Gate.
Meanwhile, for visitors who walk or want to exercise, just tap a card at the entrance. Not all areas in Ragunan can be visited by the community. To maintain the safety and comfort of animals, the route to dinal animals or those that are active during the day is closed.
Then, visitors who have arrived from morning to evening and want to continue at night, still have to buy tickets. Because, the price of the night ticket is different from the afternoon ticket.
In addition, not all animals can be visited during night operations. Only four types of animals are opened for night visits, namely small mammals, Sumatran tigers, reptiles (terarium), and hippos.
In addition, visitors can also watch attractions for feeding a number of animals, namely small mammals, hippos, Sumatran tigers, complicated, and reptiles (ular) in the tarium area. The attraction schedule is carried out at different hours according to the predetermined mechanism.
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