Come see Yun Zi during this sleepover for panda fans!
This will be an ADULTS ONLY (21+) sleepover, and there’s lots of great stuff planned. Of course, our focus will be the giant pandas—in fact, three of our pandas have August birthdays, and Hua Mei’s birthday IS August 21 (she’ll be 11 years old), so I think we have a lot to celebrate!
We’ll have one of our panda researchers give an evening talk, and we’ll set up an exclusive pre-opening morning visit to the pandas with a keeper, but there’s more to it….We’ve enlisted Dr. Zoolittle, our physician of fun, to entertain us and test your panda knowledge, we’ll visit other black and white animals, including the opportunity of getting up close and personal with a zebra, and our educators will spend the evening with you, leading a nighttime prowl and introducing you to other black and white animals in an intimate setting where you can ask questions and even pet some of them!
Of course there is food and drink, too: a dinner buffet at the campgrounds with beer and wine, and one of my favorite parts, the wonderful breakfast! We’ve arranged for a private breakfast at Sabertooth Grill, which overlooks Elephant Odyssey, where just our group can relax and enjoy a hot breakfast buffet while watching the elephants wander by. There’s more in store, but I’ll save a few surprises.
I hope there are others as excited as I am. I would love to hear if you’re interested. This will be a unique and fun experience, sleeping in the tents (provided) at the zoo’s Camp Timbuktu campground, and, I hope, learning something new in a program geared toward adults. I’ll post more details as we get closer, but I sense this will sell out fast, so don’t forget to go online and book the weekend! (Remember this is 21+ only).
Silvan Davidson is an education specialist at the San Diego Zoo.
Here’s more information about the Black & White Overnight…
To make reservations, please call 619-718-3000 or 800-407-9534.
Update: New images of Yun Zi and his toys have been added to the Panda Photo Gallery!