Bioparc Fuengirola

-What you can expect-
This highly acclaimed zoological park replaces cages and bars with beautifully designed enclosures filled with greenery, rivers and exotic temples. This entrance ticket lets you explore at your own pace, and you choose to book with the park's lunch menu included, too.

See everything from tigers and cheeky chimps, to gorillas, meerkats and reptiles. Don't miss the leaping monkeys on Lemur Island and some really unusual creatures such as the Komodo dragon and pygmy hippos. There are special shows and night time opening mid-summer, where you get to see nocturnal creatures come to life – a really unusual thing to witness. It's compact and located just 10 minutes' walk from the train station. It does away with traditional cages, so you can get centimetres from the creatures with nothing in between apart from almost invisible glass barriers.

Bioparc Fuengirola is also extremely active in conservation and educational work and is involved in several important breeding programmes designed to help the survival of endangered species. It's not just for families - the park attracts thousands of mature visitors and is perfectly accessible for wheelchairs and the less mobile.