Another Kids day out to Crocodile Bank, which is known as The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology.
This is Crocodile Bank is located in East coast Road (ECR) spread over eight and a half acres of land and is home to over 2500 reptiles. This is one of the largest reptile zoos in the world.
The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust is an organisation dedicated to the conservation of reptiles and amphibians in India. It was started when the population of crocodiles in India was almost on the verge of collapse due to excessive killing. Thankfully their efforts have bore fruit and now they have surplus number of crocodiles here.
It has quite a huge collection of crocodiles - from Magar's, Gharials, Alligators, Caimans and many others. Along with crocodiles there are numerous snakes, turtles and lizards. There are more than 1300 crocodiles preserved here in a single bank, a unique feature in India. Toddlers loved to see so many reptiles up close and enjoyed watching them.
A very good place where one can see different types of crocodiles. Lots of information on crocodile is displayed. The conservation status, their habitat, what they eat everything in detail is given along with the pictures.
Fortunate to have a learning session organised on volunteers explaining in detail about snakes and what precautions and avoidance to be done to get bitten by snakes. How to identify the venomous and non-venomous snakes. The snake venom extraction is fascinating to watch where we can see the top four poisonous snakes of India. This bank in founded by Padma sri Romulus Whitaker a foreign person who are interested in reptiles manily King Cobra.
There is so much to learn and understand about these beautiful creatures and there are plenty of interesting and educational write ups about each. The place is not too large and will be easy to walk with children.
To protect the park from unruly and bad behaving tourists there is no food counter inside which is good. Overall a wonderful place to visit on weekends....
TIMINGS & TICKETS
This is Crocodile Bank is located in East coast Road (ECR) spread over eight and a half acres of land and is home to over 2500 reptiles. This is one of the largest reptile zoos in the world.
It has quite a huge collection of crocodiles - from Magar's, Gharials, Alligators, Caimans and many others. Along with crocodiles there are numerous snakes, turtles and lizards. There are more than 1300 crocodiles preserved here in a single bank, a unique feature in India. Toddlers loved to see so many reptiles up close and enjoyed watching them.
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| Toddlers watching at the bank |
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| Snake out of the hole |
There is so much to learn and understand about these beautiful creatures and there are plenty of interesting and educational write ups about each. The place is not too large and will be easy to walk with children.
The spacious Crocodile Bank grounds are covered by luxuriant coastal dune forest and provide a haven for native wildlife, including large breeding colonies of water birds and a secure nesting beach for Olive Ridley Sea Turtles.
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| Two Little toddlers |
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| Watching the deer |
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| Calling another nephew to see the deer |
To protect the park from unruly and bad behaving tourists there is no food counter inside which is good. Overall a wonderful place to visit on weekends....
TIMINGS & TICKETS
Timings: Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Last Ticket: 5:00pm, Closed on Mondays
Entry tickets : Adult: Rs.60/-, Children below 10 years : Rs.30/-
Night Safari : Tuesday - Sunday 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Book Now)
Tickets : Adults: Rs.200/-, Child below 15 years : Rs.100/-
Entry tickets : Adult: Rs.60/-, Children below 10 years : Rs.30/-
Night Safari : Tuesday - Sunday 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Book Now)
Tickets : Adults: Rs.200/-, Child below 15 years : Rs.100/-
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