We decided to take it easy on this Christmas day, you know, nice relaxing stroll around the botanical gardens, or something. Turns out the gardens are where the zoo is, and despite warnings from guidebooks to avoid the zoo we thought we’d check it out. Much better than expected, most of the animals had reasonable enclosures, and overall it was better than most of the zoos I’ve been to in Japan for example. Little did we suspect the horrors that were to come… We were more interested in Vietnamese animals, but its always interesting to check out the big cats, you know, lions, tigers, jaguars and so on. Passing the tiger cage we noticed that feeding was at 2pm. Jolly good, we’ll check it out after the next cage which happens to be the lions. There
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