Ahtari Zoo, Ahtari

Ähtäri zoo has 2 parts, Panda house and about 3km long walking path animals along the path. Panda house is quite good and well designed. Here you can watch pandas without glass between and they are quite close to people. When we visited the pandas, they just finished their breakfast inside and Pyry went outside to continue his breakfast. There is large outside area and you can walk around it on top of the fence. Along the walking path was maybe around 60 different animals. Most of the animals were sleeping. Animals had quite big enclosures and it sometimes it was hard to see the animals. We were both quite happy that animals had their natural habitat. Bad things about Ähtäri zoo: - Very expensive (2 adults/72€, from online in advance), this includes both Panda house and the walking path - In the middle of nowhere

Nice zoo. Panda's are in good shape. (lazy and eating :-) the camping is very relaxed and serves delicious pizza's

The panda area was very nice with a good view of the two cute pandas and they had an large outdoor area to play in. The rest of the park was a bit older and some of the animals seemed to just walk around in circles, maybe stressed? The food was ok but the canteen was very crowded and noisy and food took quite a while. Dont miss the small detour in the park with a walking path to the nearby lake and a nice shelter where theres an open fire.

A very pretty zoo with lots of different Finnish animals! Big enclosures for the animals to roam. And yes, the pandas are cute and cuddly!

Panda enclosure is impressive. Rest of the zoo is nice and interesting too.