A day visit to Jawalakhel zoo with Marybert children

A visit to Jawalakhel Zoo with Marybert Children

 12th Dec,2011

It was Monday on 12^th December 2011, the children of Marybert Orphanage had been taken to Zoo of Jawalakhel, Lalitpur by the team of MySmall Help, Nepal. The main motto of the outing was to provide refreshment to the children after completion of their mid term examination. One of the volunteer Mr. Gabriel from Canada and two of the members of MSH, Nepal carefully took them out around 11:00 a.m. in the morning. All were very excited about the day and ready to walk to Jawalakhel.

They were very happy and curious to see different kinds of species like deer, rhino, hippopotamus, hyena, elephant, zebra, crocodile, tortoise, monkeys etc. The jumping ability of Chimpanzee made all of them excited and entertained for half an hour. Then after we went to see various kinds of birds with colorful feathers and structure like ostrich, vulture, parrots, hornbill, danfe etc. The children were very amazed with this view. The team of MSH and especially Gabriel seemed very kind and happy to see smiles in the face of children.

 Around 2:00 p.m. we all sat circle round in the ground and got ready to have lunch. We had pasta as our lunch which was very tasty and was cooked by the volunteer himself. All the children liked the food so much and asking for more. Soon after we finished our meal we went to the section of playground. 

There were swing, slide, see-saw, electrical train, electrical horse, electrical swing and various other games. The children enjoyed themselves playing different games and experienced new game in their life such as Electrical train and swing. They also watched a big fish aquarium which was just like the view of sea, big snakes, pigs, mice, leopard, big horn buffaloes etc.

At 3:00 p.m. we checked out from the zoo and reached Patan Durbar Square after 45 minutes of walk. The children were tired so we took rest around Durbar Square for a while. Here the children enjoyed themselves with biscuits and noodles in the scenario of historical background. Some said that they have never been to this place before. It seemed they were quite happy and enjoyed the day. Finally the MSH team dropped them to the orphanage safely and said goodbye.