08/06/2026: Actually a nice safari park, but it is too difficult to find your way around, and the animals are too far apart to reach everything during the short opening hours.
The good thing about Ree Park Safari is that there are some nice hanging walking paths in the treetops, from where you can experience, among others, the lions, wild dogs and leopards. The "savannah" also works well with good views of, among others, rhinos, giraffes, impalas and wildebeests. You can also get close to the small monkeys and lemurs by going into their cage. However, the monkeys were nowhere to be found when we were there. In general, the area is lush and more interesting and wilder than a traditional zoo.
What doesn't work about the park is the combination of the fact that it is difficult to find your way around, and that the opening hours are quite short. There is simply no proper map of the park. What there is is very messy and difficult to find your way around. It looks like it was printed on a cheap home printer, and the large overview maps that are available are quite few and just as bad. At the same time, it is only open from 10-16, which is a full three hours shorter than, for example, Copenhagen Zoo, where there is shorter time between animals. Randers Regnskov is also only open from 10-16, but here there is also much shorter time between animals.
The poor maps and the short opening hours make it quite difficult to get all the way around, and you spend quite a lot of time wading around - in the admittedly nice surroundings - without seeing very many animals.
If you want to see the animals, you might consider paying an extra 60 kr per person to sit in a small train that takes you around some of the park - certainly not all of it. Then you also have to drive in four-wheel drive vehicles. But we realized too late that these were really the only option to get around the park properly. And they shouldn't be. You should be able to walk around.
Maybe start with the train ride or the four-wheel drive if you want to pay extra for it and try to get an overview, and then select a few animals you want to see on foot for a better, more peaceful experience.
07/06/2026: Do yourself a favor and take this experience. They are simply amazing and the animals come before the tourists. We really enjoyed it.
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