Day 10 - Central Park Zoo

The weather was back to being quite hot today, in the high twenties Celsius. We had planned to go to a walking tour of Brooklyn today. However we were quite tired from two late nights in a row and decided to cancel. Therefore we went down to Bryant park for a coffee before heading to Central Park to visit the zoo.

Sunny view from Bryant Park

More views from park

It was pretty warm so we went at a leisurely pace and got the subway up. The zoo was a few blocks walk away. It was quite a cute and small zoo compared to most others that we had visited. We sat outside and ate some lunch before heading inside.

View of outside of the Central Park Zoo

The zoo only had two main houses which were a tropical zone and a polar region. Outside they had a snow leopard, red pandas and a grizzly bear. They also had a small tank in the middle with sea lions in. We got to see them perform as the feeding time as 3:30pm. After this, as the zoo closed at 5pm, most people had left and the zoo was pretty quiet.

Red Pendas

Afterwards we took a short work around the bottom part of the park before heading back downtown to visit Smiti. Whilst we sat on a bench, my back became really itchy, and later we found I had been bitten about 14 times on my back!

NYC skyline from the zoo

Smiti had arranged for us to visit a tall skyscraper a couple of blocks over from her apartment. It was called Liberty 28. They had a bar called L28 which was free to enter and we had a couple of drinks. We arrived at the same time as sunset and got to see some spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty. Afterward we went for dinner at the open air section of Stoan Street.

Sunset from the top of L28

View down below of Wall Street

Smiti and Kathryn

We had some pepperoni pizza and one with olives on too. They were delicious and this is definitely something we will do every time we will visit. We went back to Smiti’s for a final chat before we said goodbye and headed back to the hotel.

Pizza from Stoan Street